Foster Care Services

In the Foster Care Program, Alpha Management Community Services' social workers provide case planning and coordination of services to families whose children are in foster care in order to reunite children with their biological families. The program provides coordinated, culturally sensitive casework services, designed to ensure that the experience of separation results in maximum opportunity for all concerned. The program focuses on rectifying, preventing problems, and concerns, which lead to the need for removal. The services provided by the program include support services to foster care homes, individual counseling to foster care children, and supervised visitation and support services to the biological families, including family counseling, recruitment, training and certification of the minority foster families. The services provided to the children include: career counseling, budgeting, job search, locating apartments, college preparation, life/social skills (i.e. opening banking accounts/saving).

While providing services, we agree with the National Mental Health Association’s definition of cultural competence.  As a result, we strive to incorporate skills, attitudes and policies to ensure that we effectively address the treatment and psychosocial needs of consumers and families with diverse values, beliefs, and sexual orientations, in addition to backgrounds that may vary by race, ethnicity, religion and/or language.