Seneca Family of Agencies - Sonoma County

Are you a person residing in the SF Bay Area who has a gift with school-aged children and who wishes to foster or adopt? Do you believe that one person can make a big difference by helping a child in need of love, acceptance, and guidance? If so, we want to hear from you! More than 6000 children in the San Francisco Bay Area require foster care, and few if any counties have enough foster parents to fill the need.

Seneca’s Intensive Treatment Foster Care (ITFC) program serves children aged 6-18 who have emotional and behavioral challenges due to histories of trauma, neglect and abuse. If you have a keen sense of purpose and an ability to be a team player, Seneca will train and support you through the Certification Process to become a foster parent—and then support you even more as you invite a new child into your heart, home, and family.

In this home-based, therapeutic approach, Seneca foster parents are valued team members who receive weekly support and guidance from Seneca clinicians and behavior specialists to ensure that fostering a child is a positive, successful, and rewarding experience for all.

With a focus on the strengths and value of each child, the team helps foster youth to recover and flourish as they learn coping skills and improve their ability to regulate feelings and behaviors. By encouraging the child’s strengths, teaching new skills, and supporting healthy family and community connections, Seneca foster parents help the youth in their care to achieve stability, connectedness, positive self-image, and a sense of belonging. With love, support, and commitment, Seneca foster parents help their foster children to grow, heal and thrive.

To learn more about the support and compensation you will receive as an ITFC Seneca foster parent, to inquire about orientation and training dates, or to request further information, please contact us:

Email: fostercare@senecacenter.org
Tel: 1-877-380-5300