Medical Foster Care
Medical Foster Care (MFC) Program provides a family-centered, managed system of care. The program supports children entering into foster care who have special health care needs. MFC children require constant and comprehensive care for spina bifida, autism, cerebral palsy, cancer, and other chronic health conditions or multiple medical issues. Medical Foster Care extends many services to the medical foster parents and birth families to provide the best possible care to children who once might have been confined to institutions. Both a social worker and nurse are assigned to each child.
What are the goals of this program?
Provide affordable care for MFC children unable to live with their birth families
Allows a child with chronic medical condition to grow and develop in a family setting in a state licensed foster home
Coordinating training, support and services to highly dedicated foster parents and certify them as providers of personal care for MFC children
Support and coordinate care with hospitals, equipment providers, therapists, health facilities, schools, foster care staff and families
Respond to emergency needs of children who need a medical home after hours and assist with the movement of some children into adoptive homes when they cannot return to their birth families
Relationship building between MFC parents and birth parents as they working toward reunification with their children upon completion of the appropriate training and assessments
Offer follow-up services and referral to community-based programs to ensure children leaving care have the support and services within their community
Who is eligible for this service?
Children with special health care needs are those children under age 21 whose serious or chronic physical, developmental, behavioral or emotional conditions require extensive preventive and maintenance care beyond that required by typically healthy children.
How can I learn more?
Contact Medical Foster Care to request an Information Packet.
Tina Burkholder
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