Treatment Family Foster Care
Talk to an expertServing Youth and Families in:
NEW YORK
Onondaga, Cayuga, Oneida, Monroe, Genesee, Erie, Wyoming, Livingston, Orleans, Niagara, Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, or Schenectady Counties and New York City
PENNSYLVANIA
Allegheny County
SOUTH FLORIDA
Palm Beach, Broward, St.Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, and Martin Counties
DELAWARE
Kent and New Castle Counties
Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC)
Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) is a research-informed, multi-tiered team approach to rebuilding family relationships. We work with children and teens who need high levels of support due to trauma they have experienced in their homes or communities. Each youth is carefully matched to foster parents and a treatment plan specific to the needs of the youth is developed. Our foster parents are provided enhanced trauma-informed training, and wraparound services to ensure the placement is secure until permanency is achieved.
Youth in Our Care
Youth in our foster care programs range from 0-21 but are often tweens and teens who have experienced high levels of trauma and separation from their families.
Treatment Team
Foster Parents are part of a treatment team that provides support for both the foster parents and youth in foster care. This team assists the youth with case planning, provides therapy services, and helps them build skills to set them up for success in their communities.
Supports for foster parents
- 24/7 support for foster parents.
- Assistance with organizing childcare and after-school services.
- Foster parent support group twice monthly
- Monthly tax-free stipends
Supports for youth in foster care
- Youth receive weekly trauma-based therapy and family therapy focused on permanency and healing
- Case planning services
- Coaching, mentoring, and support services including life skills and job-seeking skills
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Meet our
Foster Parents
Choosing fatherhood: Creating bonds through single foster parenting
Despite not having been a parent before, Anthony took a leap of faith and decided to become a foster dad. Read more and listen to Anthony’s testimonial on how he built a connection with the youth in his care and learned how to be a great dad.
Fostering Success: Avia and Donavan’s story of support and commitment
Avia and Donavan took a leap of faith and became foster parents. Through their love of track and field, they were able to create a strong connection with their daughter.
Cayuga Centers Celebrates over 20 years of providing Treatment Family Foster Care
Cayuga Centers proudly recognizes 20 years of continued success as a provider of treatment foster care through each of its Treatment Family Foster Care (TFFC) programs. Since its start in Auburn, NY, the agency has expanded across 26 counties in Upstate New York, in South Florida, and throughout New York City, Pennsylvania, and the State of Delaware. In collaboration with children, youth, families, foster parents and community stakeholders, Cayuga Centers has successfully established and serves more than 350 TFFC placements nationally.
Become a Treatment Foster Parent
New York City
Pittsburgh – pennsylvania
Western Region – NEW YORK
upstate New York
Mohawk Valley – NEW YORK
Capital Region – NEW YORK
Central and South Florida
Delaware
Interested in Kinship Foster Care?
Kinship care is a form of foster care that emphasizes keeping children and youth close to their families. Kinship caregivers include relatives, such as aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, extended family, or fictive kin (those known to the family). Kinship care has become an important alternative to out-of-home care. Kinship placements limit disruputions, maintain family connections and cultural traditions, and minimize the trauma of separation
Meet our Cayuga Centers Foster Parents
Our resilient and committed foster parents are the backbone of Cayuga Centers. Every day they open their hearts to youth from all walks of life, making a permanent impact on their future. In partnership with our team, we are able to provide the active treatment needed to establish care and work toward unification.
Teens in foster care: A crisis that can be helped with love
Many foster parents want to foster small children, but the need for older kids is far greater. Here’s why you should open your home to a teen.
Single dads are rare in foster care. Kwame makes it work.
Parents go it alone for their kids all the time, but single foster dads are uncommon. This doesn’t have to be the case.
Fictive kin to foster kin: Jen & Jay’s story
A fictive kin placement united Jen with her daughter. She decided she wanted to do more.
Talk to your local TFFC expert
Send our team an email to learn more, and download our informational flyers.
Contact Us
Upstate New York:
phredi.griffin@cayugacenters.org
New York City:
stephanie.vigoya@cayugacenters.org
Delaware:
shayne.jervey@cayugacenters.org
Pennsylvania:
tara.skibiel@cayugacenters.org
Florida:
tamaru.phillips@cayugacenters.org