The African American Resource Center / Multi Cultural Foster Care provides a variety of therapeutic services to children and families in Pierce and King County. Services include licensed foster care as well as a number of services that are provided to individuals and families in the community. The center specializes in providing services to African American families, but provides quality services to all families regardless of nationality or ethnic background. Our mission is to provide treatment services that will allow children and families an equal opportunity to improve the quality of their lives.

Compassionate Foster Care Ministries is committed to mobilizing the adult community to help children and adolescents achieve success and fulfillment in their lives. We believe a truly fulfilling life is based upon values of integrity and noble purpose. These values are best imparted in the context of committed caring and love. We seek to impart these values to our youth in such a context. The Compassionate Therapeutic Foster Care Program will provide youth with a secure haven to heal from life’s wounds, develop healthy relating styles and practical means to effectively work toward noble and truly fulfilling objectives.

Intensive Children’s Services (ICS) is a short term (6-9 months) therapeutic foster care program, dedicated to the healing of children traumatized by abuse, neglect or otherwise at risk. We specially train our foster parents to help children by providing love and limits, a safe and structured environment and the caring attention children need to learn to trust. As a foster parent with the ICS program you are a professional on the treatment team and a vital voice on behalf of your foster child. Our foster parents are supported with generous reimbursement for their time and commitment, one weekend off per month, access to 24 hour support, specialized training and monthly support group. Our youth are supported with a therapist on staff, care coordination, case aide support, respite care, and 24 hour crisis intervention. ICS recruits, licenses and trains its own families.

The Pierce County Alliance is a private non-profit, 501(c)3, social service agency incorporated originally as “The Pierce County Drug Alliance” in 1972 to coordinate local drug treatment services. The name was changed in 1981 to reflect a broader range of programs undertaken by the agency as it expanded programs to better respond to community needs and the multi-faceted problems of substance abuse and mental health.
Mission: The mission of the Pierce County Alliance is to undertake leadership in the provision of human services, specializing in substance abuse, mental health and adolescent services for individuals, families, and the community.
The organization strives for client satisfaction through continuous quality improvement of services that are cost effective and that deliver measurable outcomes.
Non-Discrimination Policy: PCA provides all services without discrimination on the basis of race; creed; national origin; sex; age; religion; creed; marital status; or the presence of physical, mental or sensory disability; or communicable disease including HIV/AIDS.

Tacoma Youth for Christ Foster Care is a private agency licensed by the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in Washington State to provide temporary or permanent out of home care for children and youth, ages 0-18 years. Overall, our mission is to serve the State of Washington by recruiting, training, certifying, and supporting Christian families to serve children in the foster care system…..whether if it is for one night or permanently providing a family for them. These children have been removed from their families due to sexual/physical abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Youth for Christ role is to certify families to provide foster care services by taking them through the licensing standards set by DSHS. Youth for Christ screens, trains, and provides a licensing home study on each family. After the family is licensed, Youth for Christ works closely with the Department of Social and Health Services in placing children. Youth for Christ only places children under the jurisdiction of the State of Washington. After placing children, Youth for Christ contracts with the Department for case management services including: 90 day health and safety visits to the foster home, supervision of the visits between birth families and their children, and monitoring the children’s progress in school, counseling, and the foster home. Our case managers arrange respite and provide supportive services to the foster families and participate on the team that make final recommendations as to whether children return home, move to a relative, or are adopted. In addition, Youth for Christ’s desire is to provide support for foster families, provide case management services to the children while in foster care, and to help support the biological parents whose children are placed into our program. Youth for Christ believes that foster parents are undertaking a very challenging task when they enter the foster care system and, therefore, deserve a high level of support. Youth for Christ also provides our foster families opportunities to meet and interact with each other through trainings and support groups. Our staff provides a monthly support group including a catered meal and free childcare which has proven to be an important time for families as they are able to share similar challenges and successes.

315 S. Second St.
Renton, WA 98057

PO Box 88948
Seattle, WA 98138

WACAP is committed to finding permanent families for children in the United States who have been placed for adoption by their birth parents, or who have been removed from their birth families and are now living in foster care.