The Lutheran Family Services Foster Care Program provides skilled and caring substitute families for children who cannot live with their birth families for a number of different reasons. Most children in need of foster care have been abused or neglected. Foster families provide foster children with a safe, nurturing home and work with LFS staff to address each child’s special needs.
The goal of foster care is to provide permanency for these children, which may be reunification with their birth family, adoption, or independent living (for older teens).
Each child placed in the foster care program receives intensive case management services; individual or family therapy (as needed); and comprehensive clinical assessment, planning and oversight. The child’s care is managed by the LFS Clinician, who meets frequently with the child and the foster family. LFS staff members are available 24 hours a day.
As an LFS Foster Parent, you will work closely with the Clinician assigned to each foster child in your home. In addition, we provide monthly support group meetings, ongoing training, and several social activities throughout the year.
Foster parents receive a monthly reimbursement. LFS works with the referring County to establish the monthly foster parent provider rate for each child, based upon the specialized needs of the child.
For additional information about our services, please call or e-mail us at:
Denver Office: 303-922-3433
fostercentral@lfsco.org
Southern Colorado Office (Colorado Springs): 719-227-7571
fostersouth@lfsco.org
Northern Colorado Office (Fort Collins): 970-266-1788
fosternorth@lfsco.org
