Is Foster Parenting for you?

Would you like to experience the fulfillment of being a foster parent? Would you like to give back to the community? If so, we need you as a foster parent.

Please call (805) 781-1705 if you would like to explore becoming a foster parent in San Luis Obispo County.

Children in Foster Care

Children who are placed in foster care need loving homes, consistency and commitment. They have been removed from their family home because their parents cannot or will not take care of them. When a child must be permanently removed from the home, we hope that we can place the child with one family that can keep the child.

A child may stay with a foster family for a few days, or a lifetime, or anything in between. The needs of each child are different.

Siblings are placed together whenever possible. We are always looking for homes that can take brothers and sisters.

Be a Foster Parent

Every foster family is different. Some are the traditional nuclear family with a father who works and a mother who stays home. Some work outside the home and have adequate childcare. Some are single parents, either male or female. Some are older parents with lots of energy!

There will be two informational sessions, one in January 2009 and one in March 2009, about becoming a foster or adoptive parent.  Click here for more information.

Foster Parent Newsletter - The PEN

Click here to read the latest issue of our Parent Empowerment Newsletter, "The PEN".  Our newsletter helps to educate, support and connect foster, adoptive, resource and kinship parents.

Foster Parent Training and Events

Click here for information about Foster Parent Academy classes.

Click here to find out about upcoming workshops and events. 

SLO County School District Liaisons

Click here to open a list of Homeless and Foster Care Liaisons at the various schools in the County.

Survey of Parents and Foster Parents

The San Luis Obispo Department of Social Services encourages you to participate in a statewide survey of parents and foster parents.  The survey will establish a baseline on the quality of social work in the state.  For more information about the survey please click here.

Foster Care Caseload Statistics

Click here to view Foster Care caseload statistics.

Please call (805) 781-1705, or click Contact Us, to become a Foster Parent.