Become a Foster Parent

Ultimately, everything we do is designed to serve at-risk families and children; adoptive/foster parents play a crucial role in this task.
They are a catalyst in our mission and a valuable part of the treatment team. We treat our families like the true agents of change they are and provide them with the tools and support necessary to make a difference. Foster care, like parenting, is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Children stay in care from a month to several years. Being separated from birth parents is traumatic (no matter how bad the family situation was), children in foster care frequently require extraordinary parenting in their foster homes. Passage of Youth provides training and support for parents so that a home environment can promote physical, social, spiritual, and emotional growth for the children.

Foster Care Requirements

  • Be a responsible mature and healthy adult

  • Be at least 21 years of age

  • Consent to a criminal background check

  • Have no history of abusing a child

  • Have negative TB test

  • Have dependable transportation

  • Have a bed for each child

  • Pass health and fire inspections conducted on your home

  • Complete the required hours of foster parent training that POY provides

  • Be willing to abide by a policy of no physical discipline

  • Be willing to abide by TDFPS Minimum Standards

Respite Care Requirements

  • Be a responsible mature and healthy adult

  • Be at least 21 years of age

  • Consent to a criminal background check

  • Have no history of abusing a child

  • Have negative TB test

  • Have dependable transportation

  • Complete the required hours of foster parent training that POY provides

  • Be willing to abide by a policy of no physical discipline

  • Be willing to abide TDFPS Minimum Standards

Forms

We’ve compiled the list of forms below to start the foster care process.
Completed forms should be mailed to our office address at:
8035 E. RL Thornton Freeway Suite 316, Dallas, Texas 75228

Training

The CPS program requires potential foster parents to attend the PRIDE (Parent Resource for Information, Development, Education) pre-service training program. PRIDE is a competency-based program consisting of 10 three-hour sessions, and covers topics ranging from attachment issues, loss issues, discipline, effects of abuse and neglect, sexual abuse, and the effects of fostering and adopting on the family. PRIDE is taught through a co-trainer model that consists of an agency trainer and a foster or adoptive parent trainer. PRIDE is designed to train prospective foster and adoptive parents together.

Passage of Youth, Inc. does not discriminate in regard to admissions in terms of
sex, race, creed, color, national origin, LEP (Limited English Proficiency),
religious beliefs, or disabilities.