Kinship Services
RELATIVE, KINSHIP, AND FICTIVE KINSHIP CAREGIVERS
Monarch Family Services is a CARF accredited Kinship Agency.
A majority of the families that the agency assists are relative caregivers. The staff in our Kinship Program are well trained and have a plethora of experience successfully getting families through the licensing process and verified as Adopt, Foster to Adopt, or Foster to PMC-PCA homes. The services that we offer these families are:
- Orientation and trainings are offered in-home, video conferencing (i.e. Zoom) or at our office
- We have bilingual staff and case managers
- Families could be eligible for financial assistance with the home licensing process (i.e. finger prints, home safety equipment, home inspections, etc.)
- We work with families that need RISK Assessments
- We have an impeccable home monitoring process
- We stay in contact with the CPS caseworker on the family’s home verification status
- We have psychologist and therapist on staff for the children and families (CANS assessments, psychological evaluation, individual therapy, family therapy, and/or couple’s therapy)
- We offer intensive case management
- We are able to have a kinship home licensed in less than 90 days in most cases
Our agencies offers families that we work with post adoption/permanency support until the child/children reach(es) adulthood
Kinship Treatment Foster Family Care Program
Preparation for Independent Living (PIL) Kinship Extended Foster Care Program
- Initial Needs Assessment
- Goal Setting
- Monthly follow-up and direct assistance with goals
- MFS Young Adult Support Groups and Meet Ups
- Mental Health Services
- Life Skills Groups
- Supportive Home Licensing Process
- Caregiver Training
- Peer Lead Saturday Support Groups
- Individualized Parent Coaching
- 24 Hour Crisis Hotline & Intervention Team
- Individual Therapy
- Family Therapy
- Respite Care
- Monthly Foster Care Stipend
Kinship Family Prevention Services
This program is also known as a Kinship Navigator Program. Relatives who volunteer to provide a home to children in cases when the biological parent(s) cannot provide care account for the largest population within alternative care arrangements. When Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) are not involved or have closed a DFPS case, the child is considered in an informal relative placement. The Kinship Navigator Program provides the following services to relative caregivers without CPS involvement
The current programs and services that Monarch Family Services offers to informal relative caregivers include:
- 24/7 Crisis Hotline Access
- Advocacy
- Behavioral Health / Psychological Services
- Case Management
- Invitations to MFS Family Events (i.e. annual picnic and Christmas party)
- Online Support Groups
- Parent Support Group
- Resource Referrals
More Helpful Articles
Why Would A Grandmother Become a Foster Parent of her Grandchild?
Monarch Family Services has been licensing kinship (relative) families for foster to reunification, foster to adopt, foster to permanency managing conservatorship, and straight adopt for the past eight years. We have been able to provide resources and permanency for hundreds of families.
Foster Care Doesn’t Care
11th grade students Steven Huffman, Ethan Hart & James Kloss from Cinco Ranch High School in Katy, TX won Honorable Mention in C-SPAN’s 2020 StudentCam competition. Their documentary looked at the foster care system in the United States.
Hidden Foster Care
“Outside of the traditional foster care system exists a shadow system of potentially hundreds of thousands of children removed by CPS to their relatives or family friends—without a court case, monetary support, or due process.”
– Roxanna Asgarian Dec 21, 2020
