Horrible experience, unprofessional, unsupportive and I strongly advise anybody from getting involved in foster care. It is an unsustainable, emotionally damaging shipwreck of a shattered, bygone era failed system.
This organization is simply DSS (dept of soc services) in a dress + makeup. If DSS snaps their fingers they start to grovel. They withhold any pertinent information they can and will present fostering like its a positive experience. Emotionally manipulating people who go into this with good intentions.
What they purposely omit is the nightmarish bureaucratic hell that is DSS. Neither DSS nor CHS actually cares about the foster parent. The foster parent is a disposable commodity. The birth mother is the queen bee who can do no wrong. If she dislikes you for any reason whatsoever she is trained to make your experience collapse at the seams. My own was a substance abuser who was also bi-poplar. DSS's primary mission is to make the bio mother look like a presentable option to the court. If you so much as break wind in their direction they will deceptively start planning your replacement behind the scenes. Vindictive and they break every/any rule in their own playbook on a whim. They know you can't touch them and if you do? You will get blacklisted.
Just to share an experience they took our placement out of a great loving environment with two active parents providing a nurturing, supportive environment. No notification heads up. They informed us on a friday and picked her up on a monday. Cold, indifferent and no apologies or explanations other than 'DSS said so'. In reality the DSS was pissed b/c we speak matter of factly about actual facts that occurs. Anything which makes the deadbeat bio mom look slightly negative is immediate grounds for termination. YOUR termination as a foster care provider.
Also CHS will withhold any/all information it knows, offer no support (you're on your own) and in addition to having to foster they force feed you a series of useless online classes trying to teach you to be a trained therapist in addition.
Advice? Go straight into adoption, stay far away from fostering.
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Causes: Adoption, Children & Youth, Children & Youth Services, Foster Care, Youth Development Programs
Mission: Our mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving home.
Results: Through our diverse array of programs, CHS serves well over 15,000 children and families each year, with a statewide staff and offices in ten cities across North Carolina.
Target demographics: Children and families all across the state of North Carolina.
Direct beneficiaries per year: We serve well over 15,000 children and families each year.
Programs: CHS protects children and strengthens families through a diverse array of prevention, intervention, and community programs including: • Teen Pregnancy Prevention and Educational Support • Parent Education • Parent Support Services • Family Support & Self-Sufficiency • Intensive Family Preservation and Reunification Services • Foster Care & Therapeutic Foster care • Family Finding • Birth Parent Counseling for Unplanned Pregnancies • Child-Specific Adoption Recruitment • Adoption and Placement Services • Contract Adoption Support Services • Post Adoption Support • Outpatient Mental Health Services