The Department of Children and Families is actively recruiting foster parents for children in your community and surrounding areas.   Our goal is to provide our foster children with a supportive and healing environment in a home in their own community until they can be reunited with their families or another plan can be made on their behalf.   If you are thinking about becoming a foster parent, you can learn more about the application process and the supports provided by the Department by attending an informational meeting!

The Massachusetts Department of Children & Families serves children of all ages — from infants to adolescents — from every community — who need a home.

✦ You can be single, married, partnered, divorced; or widowed.

✦ You can rent or own a home.

✦ Time spent with you in a stable and secure environment gives a child a chance to heal.

✦ The rewards of providing daily care, guidance and acceptance to a child are immeasurable.