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Nearly anyone—single or married, young or old, retired or working—can change a child’s life by being a foster parent. All that’s needed is a safe, stable, and nurturing environment.
The Up Center needs the following:
- Regular Foster Parents to open their homes to children and adolescents with minimal special needs
- Therapeutic Foster Parents to provide specialized parenting for children and youth with special needs—children who have not thrived in regular foster care
- Respite Foster Parents to provide a reprieve to other foster parents when they need to take a temporary break
- Foster-to-Adopt Parents to foster and then possibly adopt their foster child
The Up Center offers training classes, as well as 24-hour support and financial compensation. There are no fees involved with becoming a foster parent.
To read more about foster and adoptive parenting, click here to read about some of our agency's success stories.
If you are interested in becoming a foster parent, please take a moment to complete our foster parent inquiry form. Or, contact Christa Paulosky at 757.965.8670.
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“You have the opportunity to impact another human being, and that impact can be generational if you think about that child having children and then those children having children.”
-Scott B., Foster Parent
Our Foster Care & Adoption staff periodically holds open houses and orientations for those interested in being foster or adoptive parents. Private orientations are available at other times by calling Christa Paulosky at 757-965-8670.
Our next Open House will be Thursday, January 7, 2010 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Presentations will be given every 30 minutes, and light refreshments will be available. Come to have your questions answered! The open house will be held at: 6350 Center Drive, Building 5, Norfolk, VA 23502.
Please call Christa Paulosky at 757-965-8670 to let us know you are coming!
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