Treatment Family Foster Care
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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.
The reasons we opened our home to foster youth
An empty room in Stephanie and Michael’s home that they did not know how to fill sparked the journey to foster parenting.
Paying It Forward: How a Former Foster Youth Is Making A Difference In Utica
Meet one of Mohawk Valley’s unsung heroes – Frank Yarborough, a therapist at Cayuga Centers. His journey from being a foster child to helping at-risk youth tells a tale of healing for NYS struggling families and kids.
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