Our Mission

Our mission is to provide the highest quality treatment foster care program available for children and to foster parents, whose special needs can be met through services delivered, supervised and supported by both our professional front office staff and by our therapeutic social worker staff.

We provide the following services at Foster Friends, with mental health therapists on staff that have experience with issues of foster parenting and adoption. We provide free therapy in-house for our foster families.
  • Individual counseling
  • family counseling
  • Intensive, therapeutic workshop
  • Family oriented
  • Individualized attention
  • Adoption services
  • Transitional care to/from Group Home setting
  • 24/7 Support
  • Monthly training

From our Director


At Foster Friends our mission is to change lives. Specifically, the lives of children who find themselves in foster care, through no fault of their own. We accomplish this by providing the most therapeutic foster care treatment program in the San Joaquin Valley.

Our goal is to the stop the abuse of children placed in our care, by creating a healing place, a warm, nurturing family environment. We know children suffer when they are removed from their biological families. At Foster Friends we seek to ease the pain of that separation, heal the hurt, return them to their family if possible, and if not, we seek to provide them with a permanent home. Our foster parents are special people who have been screened carefully and trained extensively about the mental and emotional trauma children in foster care have experienced.

At Foster Friends, we are dedicated to making a difference in a child's life, by creating the loving family connections that bring hope and joy back to a devastated child. Our professional team of social workers, staff and Administrators support our foster parents around the clock. When our foster parents need us, we are there!

We believe that every child deserves to be in a family with parents that care for them. Are you that kind of person? We are looking for the few special people who can be foster parents for Foster Friends. If you feel you are one of these people, please contact us!

Karen Levinson M.S.