MFS Resources
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National and Local Resource Guide
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View PDF: CYS Directory 2022
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Caregiver Self-Care Strategies
Psychoeducation on Mental Health Diagnosis
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Education Information
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More Helpful Articles From Our Blog

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