Enhanced Family Foster Care
What We’re About
Creando Raices Familiares/Creating Family Roots Enhanced Family Foster Care Program (EFFC) offers multilingual services in community based foster care, adoption, and home finding to children and families in Brooklyn and Queens. The EFFC program is committed to supporting families and connecting every child in care with a forever family whether that be with birth parents, foster parents, kinship parents, or adoptive parents.
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Main Office
315 Wyckoff Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11237
Phone: 718-497-6090
What We Do
Our Creando Raices Familiares/Creating Family Roots Enhanced Family Foster Care Program (EFFC) program offers specialized foster care services to children who present with serious emotional disturbance and behavioral challenges. CHFS provides assessment, engagement, counseling, and support services to children and youth in foster care and their birth parents. The program works closely with our Mental Health Services department to provide children the necessary health and wellness resources to ensure that they thrive while in our care.
Who We Help
The program primarily focuses on families from the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens referred to us by our agencies’ foster care services.
Referral Process
Children are placed in foster care by the Administration for Children Services.
To become a Foster Parent, please visit our Become a Foster Parent page or call our Homefinding Department at 718-497-6090
General Contact
Petra Scott-Harris
Interim Director of EFFC
Email: pscott-harris@hispanicfamilyservicesny.org
Phone: 718 497-6090