PROFESSIONALS

The LFCC’s mission of recruiting and supporting the families who care for Arizona’s children can only be achieved through collaboration. Therefore, the center is agency- independent, welcoming all families and professionals. The LFCC would like to be the place that families can come to to access the services and supports to meet a variety of their needs. In order to achieve this goal, we will need the help and support of the adoption, foster care, guardianship, and kinship community as a whole. If you would like to collaborate or participate in any of the following areas, please contact the Program Supervisors.

EDUCATION

Increased knowledge and understanding can become tools that families use to parent non-biological children with confidence and success. We seek to communicate knowledge and information through Specialized Training Sessions, and through individualized Q & A Sessions, and through our the literature in our Resource Library.

• You can contribute your time and expertise by presenting a Specialized Training Session on a topic related to parenting a child in out-of-home care. We have training rooms that can accommodate up to 70 people with a projector, TV and VCR. Plus, our event calendar is distributed to over 400 families and professionals each month.
• We also need professioals who are willing to meet individually with families during Q & A Sessions to answer specific questions about needs or services related to parenting their child. If you or your agency specialize in an area related to our target population’s needs, you can donate a short period of time to be available on a monthly basis to answer families’ questions.
• If you offer a service or know of a community resource that would benefit our families, you can share that information by contributing brochures or literature to our Resource Library.