Recruits foster homes to care for foster and adoptive children. Provides pre-service and ongoing training, home studies, and support to ensure quality care for children.

Recruits and trains potential foster parents. Matches children in need of placement with licensed foster families.

Provides training to those interested in becoming foster-to-adopt parents. Training is comprised of classroom training, self-study, home study, and criminal background investigation.

Foster parent is an approved provider who is committed both to supporting family reunification and also to adopting the child if the child and family do not reunify. As noted, sometimes children are unable to return home, so in Virginia, all families are dually-certified as foster parents and adoptive parents. You may specify your preference for foster care, adoption or both during the home study process. However, dual-certification provides more flexibility for the family and allows for changing future circumstances.

Rappahannock Area Foster Families Team recruits, trains, approves and supports foster/adoptive families. RAFFT provide basic training several times a year both evening and day classes and a variety of other training to further assist our foster/adoptive parents.