Foster care is home-like care provided by licensed foster parents for children who cannot live with their parents because they are unsafe, have special care or treatment needs that their parents are unable to manage, or other circumstances resulting in their parents or family being unable to care for them.

Kinship Care is a program to help support a child who lives outside of his or her home with the relative.   The child may be living temporarily or for the long term with a relative. Kinship care helps a family support a child in the home of a relative that might be under stress or when the child has experienced abuse or neglect.  With this support, placing a child in a foster home or another out-of-home care setting may be avoided. For children in the child welfare system who cannot continue living at home with his or her parents, Kinship Care may be another placement option.

Interested in becoming a foster parent?

Foster parents play a critical role for children, families, and agencies. The foster parent’s primary task is to temporarily care for a child until the child’s permanence goal is achieved.

Call 608-269-8600 and ask to speak with the Foster Care Coordinator if you have questions or if you are interested in becoming a Foster Parent.

Additional information can also be found on the Department of Children and Families website.

Also check out our Monroe County Foster Care Program Facebook page...

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The mission of the Monroe County Department of Human Services is to serve people, with an emphasis on Monroe County residents, by empowering participant responsibility and choice toward safe and independent lifestyles through the delivery of services in response to assessed needs.           

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