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To meet the needs of children in crisis, the Wichita Children's Home depends on caring foster families (more recently known as Resource Families) in the community to provide assistance. The Foster Care Department trains, supervises, and supports these families who care for children who are best served by one or two primary caregivers.

Foster families serve an important role by giving personal attention and nurturing the needs of children while in a family atmosphere. Their responsibilities include providing supervision, physical care, recreation, transportation, and nutrition in a stable environment; while at the same time the professionals at the Wichita Children's Home focus on ensuring the child's safety.

Experience the Rewards

Participating as a foster parent at WCH is a worthwhile and rewarding experience with positive benefits. Not only will you help children, additional benefits are:

  • Financial reimbursement
  • Regular guidance and support by a trained foster care worker
  • Valuable child care training and support
  • Access to WCH Clothes Closet
  • Financial assistance for diapers and formula
  • Access to child care assistance through the WCH Volunteer Program
  • Mileage reimbursement
  • Access to Children's Home nursing staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • On call Foster Care support staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • Access to Wichita Food
  • Personal satisfaction of knowing you have touched a child's life forever

Types of Foster Care Homes

  • Emergency Homes
  • Long term Homes
  • Specialized Long term Homes
  • Both Emergency and Long term Homes
  • Adoptive Homes

Share Your Warmth & Care

You may apply to become a foster parent by meeting these basic, initial requirements:

  • Fill out and return Foster Parent Referral Form
  • Pass a Kansas Bureau Investigation and Child Abuse/Neglect background check
  • Be an adult, single or married, over 21 years of age
  • Own or rent a home
  • Meet income guidelines to provide for additional child/children in your home
  • Provide discipline, care and love in a safe environment on a 24-hour basis
  • Be emotionally capable of handling children that have been through trauma

If you are within these guidelines, you can begin the licensing process. Pre-licensure trainings are required and information on these trainings and a schedule for them will be provided upon approval of a Foster Care Questionnaire. These trainings will explain the foster care system and prepare you for the necessary care for the children in need that you may have in your home. For more information please contact:

Foster Care Recruiter
Kristina Young
681-6715 | k_young@wch.org


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