Foster Care/Kinship Care

Provides a stable home environment with adults who care for and believe a child can achieve their full potential. Equips families with tools, such as parental skill building and behavioral coping skills, to ensure a child’s physical and emotional well-being. Foster parents serve as Agents of Hope, a mentoring bridge between youth and their biological or adoptive family, which secures a child’s future.

Provides support with guardianship, kinship licensing, applications for financial assistance, and access to support groups, caregiver education classes, and events.

Offers support for living expenses, education, career guidance, life skills workshops, and individual case management for existing and former foster youth.

Assists "aged out" former Nevada foster youth to attain economic self-sufficiency by providing youth with certain goods and services including (but not limited to) case management, housing assistance, employment assistance, educational assistance, transportation assistance, and other services such as referrals.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>**As COVID-19 continues to impact our community, Clark County Social Service offices are closed to the public.&nbsp; Please see our website for options on applying for services.</em>

Foster parent recruitment and support for specialized foster care.

Consulting: Ongoing strategic consultation at no cost to child welfare systems and tribes.

Public Policy: Comprehensive child welfare information to support policymakers

Research and Analysis: Information to support decision-making, bolster system integration, build capacity, and support sustainability.

Casey Life Skills: Free practice tool and framework for working with youth in foster care. It assesses independent living skills and provides results instantly. Intended to be done between a youth and their social worker, case manger, or other mentor.

Direct Services: Operates nine field offices in five states (Arizona, California, Idaho, Texas, and Washington) that provide direct services to urgan, suburban, and rural communities.

The National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) is a non-profit organization established in 1972 to address the concerns of several independent groups of foster parents and child welfare professionals to provide foster families with opportunities for advocacy, networking, and education.

Primary Activities:

• Promote the delivery of services and supports to foster families
• Support quality foster care by promoting excellence and best practice
• Provide services and supports to state and local foster parent associations
• Develop and provide education and training, information, dissemination of information to the public
• Advocate at the local, state and national level; promote networking and collaboration
• Promote positive image of family foster care; greater visibility; encourage active involvement