Organization:
National Center for Children and Families
Innovative Family Connections (IFC) serves children from the District of Columbia who have been removed from their birth parents and placed in licensed foster homes in Maryland. The children we serve may have been left home alone or lived in deplorable home conditions; are coping with educational delays and medical neglect; many have been physically or sexually abused, and/or left with unwilling caregivers. Some children have witnessed their parents struggling with drug dependency, domestic violence, or serious emotional limitations that affect their ability to parent safely. We serve families who experience multigenerational poverty, mental illness, and addiction that result in repeated involvement with Child Protective Services.
IFC recruits foster families to become our partners in providing safe and temporary homes to support children and youth. We help them heal from their traumatic and difficult experiences. We also support birth and kinship families in reconnecting with their own children; while strengthening the birth parent’s capacity to care for their own children breaking the cycle of intergenerational childhood abuse and neglect.
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