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We are only able to work with families and place children within our service area. Our service areas include the Missoula, Flathead, Bitterroot Valleys, as well as Lewis and Clark County (Helena Area). Thank you.

When challenges cause families to break apart, it’s often the child who needs a new home, and the right environment can make all the difference!

Youth Homes and the Dan Fox Family Care Program provide stable, safe and healing homes for children (ages 2 to 18) who’ve grown up knowing abuse, neglect and crisis.

We want to help children heal, and foster care and adoption families can give them the support they need. You can provide temporary or permanent homes to children with behavioral and emotional disturbances.

In cooperation with the Montana Division of Child and Family Services, we offer emotional support, intensive social work, case planning, service coordination and financial support to foster and adoptive families.

Support for You and the Child.

Financial Support

Foster Parents receive a monthly stipend to cover the cost of caring for a child. This non-taxable stipend is more than enough to pay for groceries, transportation, allowances and incidentals. A child’s health care costs are not the responsibility of the Foster Parent.

Placement Support

Each family is assigned a Youth Homes staff member who provides emotional support, care and treatment planning and holds regular meetings with the family. The caseworker is available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week in case of emergencies and crises. Support groups are held for families in addition to monthly training.

What does it take to be a Foster Care or Adoptive Parent?

We have a broad definition of family for the children we serve. We need stable, caring and energetic adults who are willing to commit to keeping a child for a minimum of one year. We ask that our parents be at least 18 years old, have some experience with children and have a sufficient income. (A monthly, non-taxable stipend is provided to pay for the care of the foster child.)

Foster and Adoptive parents need to provide physical care, daily management of the child, discipline, activities, relationship building and nurturing. They must be able to work as part of the care team, accept a child’s birth parents as part of the child’s life, and be able to deal with the different issues facing their foster child. Because of our in-depth application and training process and the care we take in matching families with children, we see positive outcomes for those placed through our program.