First Home Care believes in working to enable children, adolescents, families and adults to receive the care they need — in their homes and communities.
At a Glance
These are just some of the things we are noted for at First Home Care:
- Recognized for ability to assist hard-to-serve children (older child with multiple institutional placements)
- Committed to maintaining sibling placements and promoting biological family interactions (when appropriate)
- 84 percent of foster children have two or fewer placements with First Home Care
- 24/7 on-call availability of medical director and case worker
- Generous foster parent stipends with unparallel supports
- Foster parents are encouraged to maintain contact with child after discharge to keep support system intact
- Specialized adolescent mother/baby placements
- Adoptions for long-term therapeutic foster care placements are common
- Customized foster family website with parenting tips, training calendar and additional resources
- First Home Care participates on various FAPT teams
- Proud support of the Chamber of Commerce in all Resource Center locations in Virginia
- Authorized training provider for Casey Family Services (Spring 2008)