What an Adoptive Family Should Provide a Child or Youth

Through fostering or adoption, adoptive parents play an important role in stopping child abuse and neglect one child and one family at a time.

Our children and teens are wonderful kids who have experienced far too much instability, distress and disappointment. They need and deserve to laugh, play, learn, have friends – in other words, move safely through all of the critical developmental stages on the road to adulthood. All children need a stable, nurturing family to grow and develop to their full potential. Their needs present rich opportunities for foster or adoptive parents to make a positive, lasting difference in their lives.  

By welcoming one or more of these young people into your home, you can provide the acceptance, guidance and support essential to restoring their trust and hope. CFSA has a responsibility to ensure that people caring for our children and youth provide a welcoming, safe and stable environment. The most successful foster and adoptive parents enjoy children, like to parent, value family relationships and have a strong personal support system. Many are motivated to make a positive difference in a child or young person’s life or to contribute to the community.    

Adoptive parents make a young person’s dreams come true through the priceless gift of a new forever home. CFSA continuously recruits, trains and licenses District residents to be foster parents and also trains individuals, couples and families to adopt. The first step is calling 202-671-LOVE (5683) where a friendly, knowledgeable social worker will speak with you and answer your questions. CFSA has information sessions for prospective foster and adoptive parents every two weeks. Why not invest a couple of hours to explore whether foster or adopting is right for you? To be invited to an upcoming session, please give us a call. Also, visit www.adoptdckids.org to see some of the children who are available for adoption.