Foster Care

Impact’s foster parents undergo specialized training to become trauma-informed, creating a healing environment for children to explore their journey to recovery. Children who have experienced trauma often face educational, emotional, and behavioral delays, and our foster parents are equipped with tailored training to meet these unique needs.

We offer a wide range of support to ensure positive outcomes for children with specialized needs.

What Impact Provides

Our focus extends beyond immediate care—we aim to strengthen the children’s relationships with their birth parents. Impacts Case Managers provide dedicated support hours to the foster family and the child monthly, providing individualized support. These families benefit from the assistance of dedicated professional case managers who provide crucial support to navigate the emotional challenges that fostering can bring to their daily lives. This is particularly significant as they address the youth’s behavioral, emotional, or medical challenges in their care. Additionally, we provide service coordination, respite care, 24/7 on-call support, and ongoing training. Impact understand that fostering can be challenging and require much effort, but the benefits and rewards are immeasurable.

Impact foster care families receive financial assistance to alleviate the extra expenses of welcoming another child into their homes. The foster care rates in Virginia are set by DSS and are based on the ages of the child, and each child will also have an assessment where additional funding may occur.  

Foster families play a pivotal role in helping children transition toward reuniting with their families. Recognized as the primary source for facilitating treatment, foster parents hold a significant role in aiding children during this transitional stage of life. They provide the essential resources to turn the goals for these children into a tangible reality.

Various staff members collaborate with parents within the foster care framework to provide training and ongoing support. Their shared priority is to create a welcoming, nurturing home environment that fosters the well-being and development of the children in their care.

How Impact Helps

At Impact, we believe in providing homes and creating transformative environments where children can thrive, and families can reunite with strength and support.