Foster Care

Foster Care Services in CaliforniaFoster care children and familiesBeta Foster Care (BFC) was incorporated in 1988 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency tasked with providing private foster family placement for children who have been removed from their parents’ custody due to abuse and neglect.

BFC is licensed by the State of California Department of Social Services to serve as a Treatment Foster Family Agency designed to meet the special mental health care needs of children in foster care placement. Beta’s mission is to provide professional services that prevent cruelty to children.

The initial goal is to stabilize the child’s life.

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A nurturing, kind and supportive foster home, without placement Treatment Foster Family Agencychanges, is the first step in stabilization.  Consequently, the vast majority of the children placed in Beta’s program remain with the same foster family until they reunite with their parents or are placed permanently into adoption or guardianship.

Many of Beta’s foster parents also adopt their Foster Children.