MFCAA has three staff members that are here to provide support and assistance to foster and adoptive families in various settings. Some areas that we can help with include:
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School Advocacy
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Behavioral Interventions
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Additional Service Acquisition
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Advocacy with Children's Division, CASA, or GAL team members
We can also help families find appropriate service providers and get approval for those services to maintain children in placements.
Crisis Intervention:
Crisis intervention services, provided by our three Advocacy staff members in response to individual family requests for assistance, allow adoptive families to receive the one-on-one advocacy assistance and support needed to maintain placement of extremely needy children in their homes and to access much needed counseling and emergency services. This service is provided in response to a phone call or email from an adoptive family or potential adoptive family, indicating that some circumstance involving their family or the children in their home has become unmanageable without outside assistance. That assistance can be consulting via the phone or internet, in home support, attendance at meetings, and more. The demand for these services is quite high, and many more requests for assistance come in that need attention. MFCAA’s goal in relation to crisis responsiveness is to expand staff and services to reach out to rural populations on the Western side of the state.
Tammy, Mary and Lori are here to help. Feel free to email them, or call them at 816-350-0215.
Being a foster or adoptive parent can be an incredibly fulfilling responsibility, but it is also difficult at times. One way that MFCAA works to support foster and adoptive families is by providing an opportunity for them to connect with each other and share their experiences.
Crisis intervention services, provided by our three Advocacy staff members in response to individual family requests for assistance, allow adoptive families to receive the one-on-one advocacy assistance and support needed to maintain placement of extremely needy children in their homes and to access much needed counseling and emergency services.
