County of Fresno Department of Social Services - Family Finding Service

County of Fresno Department of Social Services - Family Finding Service Family Finding is a program aimed at reestablishing family connections between children in foster care and their relatives.

Every child deserves a loving family! Based on a national model, Family Finding provides strategies to find and engage relatives of children living in foster care. Every child deserves a special connection only family can provide. Every child has a family and a meaningful connection to family helps a child develop a sense of belonging. The most important factor contributing to positive outcomes fo

r children in foster care is meaningful connections and lifelong relationships with family. Family Finding uses experienced search agents to identify and locate family members using multiple databases. Once family members are found, Family Finding Specialists work to reestablish relationships where appropriate and explore ways to establish lifelong connections with family and/or find a permanent family placement for the child.

08/25/2016

The Family Finding model, developed by Kevin A. Campbell, offers methods and strategies to locate and engage relatives of children currently living in out-of-home care. The goal of Family Finding is to connect each child with a family, so that every child may benefit from the lifelong connections that only a family provides.
Core beliefs inherent in this approach are:
1) Every child has a family, and they can be found if we try
2) Loneliness can be devastating, even dangerous, and is experienced by most children in out of home care
3) A meaningful connection to family helps a child develop a sense of belonging, and
4) The single factor most closely associated with positive outcomes for children is meaningful, lifelong connections to family.
http://www.familyfinding.org

Address

380 W. Ashlan Avenue
Clovis, CA
93612

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm

Telephone

+15596006400

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