Mission Statement

Our mission is to provide quality and enlightened experience for children in foster care placements. We seek to create opportunities for children to thrive and grow using community resources and our qualified staff. The primary goal is to have each child placed in a safe, nurturing family who will seek out a child's needs and fulfil them. Ultimately, we wish to facilitate the reunification of children with their natural families.

The Service

The Foster Care service aims at offering a family experience to those children who, for some reason or another, could not live with their natural families. The familiar situations which may lead to fostering include parents' death, familiar crises, conflicts arising between parents, difficulties in parental capacity, illnesses, drug and/or alcohol abuse, imprisonment of parents and child abuse that includes physical, sexual and emotional abuse, or neglect.

Furthermore, if it transpires that it is in the best interest of the children to return back with their natural family, fostering too can help the children re-integrate within their natural family. Throughout the foster care placement, these children would be provided with the opportunity to live within a family environment, whereby they can get the love and security they need. This opportunity can offer the stability much required by the children in order for them to be able to develop their abilities and character. Therefore, the benefits reaped from a fostering experience may turn out to be long-lasting.

Persons interested in becoming foster carers are required to attend pre-service training course. An assessment will follow, prior to the compilation of a home-study report which will be used to determine whether the applicants would be approved as foster carers. A team of qualified social workers provide monitoring, guidance and support to foster care families. The team's agenda also includes the provision of ongoing training and education to foster carers.

Today, with 171 approved foster families caring for 178 children, the agency's aim is to continue to develop this service and to create a nation wide awareness that foster care is the best alternative for children, as children can benefit from living in a family environment.

Aims and Objectives

The aims of the fostering service are:

- to inform and educate the general public what is fostering and what it entails.

- to train and assess new prospective foster carers so as to match adequately the needs of the child to be fostered according to the strengths of the foster carers.

- to offer support to the foster carers through supervision of placements, continuous training and support groups.

Click here for a copy of the Foster Care Newsletters.

Click here  for a copy of the Foster Care Act.

To view a leaflet about this service click here.