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Welcome to Child Guidance Clinic Foster Family Agency

Our Story
The Henrietta Weill Memorial Child Guidance Clinic is Kern County?s oldest counseling center for children, adolescents and their families. The Clinic is a private, non-profit center that serves children and their families who are struggling with emotional, behavioral and substance abuse problems. Since the Clinic has an extensive history of working with foster children and foster families, becoming a Foster Family Agency was the logical next step.

 

The Child Guidance Foster Family Agency (CGFFA) is a private, non-profit organization with a caring, family-centered environment that offers the quality of foster care and support services that the Clinic has been proud to provide since 1946. CGFFA is committed to helping Kern County children and adolescents by training loving foster families who are prepared to guide them through trying times. Being linked with the Clinic makes therapeutic services more accessible to assist with this process.

The purpose of CGFFA is to develop stable foster homes that provide a nurturing, supportive and stable environment for foster children so that they can grow and reach their full potential.

Our foster family agency is determined to recruit, train, certify and provide professional support to Kern County residents that are willing and able to open their families and homes to foster children for six to eighteen months. Our staff works closely with each foster family to ensure that needed services are identified and provided. We are committed to maintaining the children?s placement and strengthening the support networks while instilling a sense of hope and security within each child. Often times, foster children are in need of mental health services. It is of great benefit to our foster families to have access to the Child Guidance Clinic for intensive outpatient services. We work in concert with Clinic staff when providing a full continuum of services including psychiatric services, specialized groups, medication, psychological testing, intensive case management and therapeutic behavioral services.

Every foster child in Kern County deserves a strong, committed and nurturing family environment where needs are consistently and predictably met. Empathy, compassion, and loving support are necessary for healthy growth and development. With the support of our staff, we strive to maintain these family units until the children and families of origin are reunited or until the children are of age to live successfully and independently. It is our goal to expand as an agency in conjunction with the residents of Kern County who have a desire to enhance the lives of foster children. Together we can make a difference in the future of our county by empowering families and children while offering them love, safety, security and most importantly, hope.

For more information about the Child Guidance Foster Family Agency or on becoming a foster parent, please call (661)322-1021.

Our Mission

To help you provide a healthy, happy home to one of the thousands of Kern County children in need of temporary placement.