Foster Care
You can be a foster parent. Damar guides you through the process from beginning to end. Foster care creates brighter futures for children—and we can’t do it without your help.
Register for a Foster Care
Information Session Today
Sessions from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. will be held on:
August 30, September 13, September 27,
October 11, and October 25
Register Now
Sessions from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. will be held on:
September 5, September 19, October 3, October 17, and November 1
Register Now
About Damar's Foster Care Program
Damar Foster Care Services is a fully licensed, not-for-profit child placement agency, working on behalf of children who are unable to live at home. We recruit, prepare, and support quality foster parents.
How Indiana's Foster Care System Works
Foster care is a state-managed welfare system, providing out-of-home placement for children who have been removed from their original home due to neglect, abuse, delinquency, or abandonment.
Becoming a foster parent generally takes from three months to a year, depending on the timing of background checks and home visits. In short, anyone over the age of 21 who cares deeply for children and is financially and emotionally stable is eligible.
How Foster Care Works
Becoming a Foster Parent
Foster parents must be kind, patient, nurturing, and determined to make a positive difference in the lives of the children placed with them.
While the minimum age is 21, foster parents can be single, married, coupled, homeowners, renters, young, or simply young at heart. They come from diverse backgrounds and encompass all genders, religions, cultures, and ethnicities.
View Parent Guide
Responsibilities of Foster Parents
Foster parents are nurturers who are vital to the success of a child’s reunification with his or her birth family or other permanent placement.
Their main goals are to provide skilled care, guidance and support to their foster child, but they also have important responsibilities to the placement agency, birth family, treatment team, and their own family.
They serve a big and important role.
Learn More
Supporting Foster parents' Journey
Damar’s expert Foster Care Services staff supports parents from the beginning of their journey to the end. We will give you the education to understand whether foster parenting is your calling and, if it is, tools to apply and become licensed. We will also guide you constantly, beginning with the first moments your foster child is placed in your home.
Resources and Support
for Foster parents
Damar’s commitment to its foster parents is simple: We will be with you every step of the way. Our Damar Foster Care Services team provides you with resources, information, and encouragement while you decide whether foster parenting is your calling. As you complete the application process, we’ll be there to answer any questions. And, throughout the time a child is placed in your home, we are only a phone call away.
Learn More
Training and Licensing Foster Parents
Damar makes the process as easy as possible with expert, experienced guidance. On the path to becoming licensed, you will receive about 20 hours of instruction. Beyond that, you’ll work through a seven-part process, including participating in background checks and a home study.
Learn More
Foster Care
You can be a foster parent. Damar guides you through the process from beginning to end. Foster care creates brighter futures for children—and we can’t do it without your help.
Register for a Foster Care
Information Session Today
Sessions from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. will be held on:
August 30, September 13, September 27, October 11, and October 25
Register Now
Sessions from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. will be held on:
September 5, September 19, October 3, October 17, and November 1 Register Now
About Damar's Foster Care Program
Damar Foster Care Services is a fully licensed, not-for-profit child placement agency, working on behalf of children who are unable to live at home. We recruit, prepare, and support quality foster parents.
How Indiana's Foster Care System Works
Foster care is a state-managed welfare system, providing out-of-home placement for children who have been removed from their original home due to neglect, abuse, delinquency, or abandonment.
Becoming a foster parent generally takes from three months to a year, depending on the timing of background checks and home visits. In short, anyone over the age of 21 who cares deeply for children and is financially and emotionally stable is eligible.
How Foster Care Works
Becoming a
Foster Parent
Foster parents must be kind, patient, nurturing, and determined to make a positive difference in the lives of the children placed with them.
While the minimum age is 21, foster parents can be single, married, coupled, homeowners, renters, young, or simply young at heart. They come from diverse backgrounds and encompass all genders, religions, cultures, and ethnicities.
View Parent Guide
Responsibilities of Foster Parents
Foster parents are nurturers who are vital to the success of a child’s reunification with his or her birth family or other permanent placement.
Their main goals are to provide skilled care, guidance and support to their foster child, but they also have important responsibilities to the placement agency, birth family, treatment team, and their own family.
They serve a big and important role.
Learn More
Supporting Foster Parents' Journey
Damar’s expert Foster Care Services staff supports parents from the beginning of their journey to the end. We will give you the education to understand whether foster parenting is your calling and, if it is, tools to apply and become licensed. We will also guide you constantly, beginning with the first moments your foster child is placed in your home.
Resources and Support
for Foster parents
Damar’s commitment to its foster parents is simple: We will be with you every step of the way. Our Damar Foster Care Services team provides you with resources, information, and encouragement while you decide whether foster parenting is your calling. As you complete the application process, we’ll be there to answer any questions. And, throughout the time a child is placed in your home, we are only a phone call away.
Learn More
Training and Licensing Foster Parents
Damar makes the process as easy as possible with expert, experienced guidance.
On the path to becoming licensed, you will receive about 20 hours of instruction. Beyond that, you’ll work through a seven-part process, including participating in background checks and a home study.
Learn More