Mobilizing love: foster and kinship care

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Help a family and show a child you care

Every day there are children in our state who need someone to care for them. It can be a child in your neighborhood who needs a safe and secure home, if only for a short time. It can be a family in your community that needs you to step up for them.

Can you give these kids the safe, loving, and supportive home they deserve? If you would do anything for a family, you’re qualified. If you want to help your community, you’ve come to the right place. If you want to make sure every child feels loved and secure, you’re ready to foster. We will help make it happen.

This page links you to lots of helpful and inspiring information to start you on this journey!

  • Attend an info session 
    Register for an online meeting to learn about becoming a foster parent.
  • Contact CAFAF 
    The Connecticut Alliance of Foster and Adoptive Families is ready to help you understand foster care and open your home to a child who needs your support.
  • Foster care Q & A (PDF) 
    Learn the basics about becoming a foster parent, including who’s eligible (most adults are!).
  • Myths and facts (PDF) 
    This fact sheet addresses some common concerns you may have.

Learn more about becoming a foster parent

Kinship care

Subsidized Guardianship Program forms 
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Care for a child you already love

Learn how to become licensed so you can care for a child in your family or one you know while we work to reunite them with their parents.
  • C-KIN program 
    See the many resources available through the CT Kinship caregiver program.
  • Interstate Compact 
    Learn how the ICPC helps children placed in or from CT receive the same services.
  • Monthly subsidy 
    The Subsidized Guardianship Program pays you and also provides health insurance for the children.
Subsidized Guardianship Program forms 

Foster Care in Connecticut

Ready to Foster

The Arulampalam's Adoption Journey

Governor Lamont Wadsworth PSA

Father's Day PSA

Natalia Ready to Foster Interview

Fox61: Foster Care in CT

Children with special needs

Children with special needs

Help change their world

Many children in State care need special parents who can help them thrive. DCF and its partners are here to support you and the child.
  • Get inspired 
    Watch this video supporting foster care in Connecticut.
  • Heart Gallery 
    Read about some of the kids in State care who need a foster or adoptive parent right now.
  • What are special needs? 
    Special needs are barriers to foster care such as siblings, kids with a disability, and kids who are more than eight years old.