The annie c courtney foundations mission is to assist foster, adoptive and kinship families as well as young people who have experienced foster care by providing services designed to enhance their lives and the communities they live in. See schedule o.

Children & Youth , Foster Care

The community collaborative promotes, recruits, supports and helps enhance effective relationships between foster/adoptive families/kinship caregivers and the department of children and families and other community foster care agencies. By hosting monthly information meetings, attending community events, partnering with community groups, and using social media, the annie c courtney foundation (accf) helps increase local community awareness about the continued need for culturally competent, licensed foster and adoptive families throughout northwestern ct for children and youth in care. Accf hosts monthly support groups, provides referral services, hosts trainings and uses social media to support families already providing foster care or kinship care as well as families who have adopted. in 2017, we began recruitment on behalf of the ct department of children and families to increase the number of foster and adoptive families available to children in the foster care system, specifically in lower fairfield county, ct. Accf helps increase community awareness of the ongoing need for licensed foster and adoptive families for children by hosting trainings in the community and speaking with faith communities and businesses as well as individuals. Families are supported throughout the process of licensing as we partner with dcf to assure that families needs are met, increasing retention of this valuable resource for children and youth. in 2017, our extreme recruitment program utilized a private investigator and a case manager who work collaboratively wth social services agencies to identify biological family members and potential adoptive families for older children in foster care. This process helps to find permanent homes and/or lifelong connections for these same children. September 2014 marked the beginning of this program, which initially worked with three youth identified by the state dcf as needing child-specific recruitment services in order to experience permanency.