30 Days to Family® is an intense, short-term intervention referral program developed by the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition to firstly increase the number of children placed with relatives when they enter the foster care system; and finally, ensure natural and community supports are in place to promote stability for the child. The program model features two major elements: family finding and family support interventions.

Advocacy offers advocates to help families navigate the subsidy system, help families find the help they need when struggling to understand how best to help children that is struggling in schools, mental health and the court system. We will walk with these families in helping them find the resources that they need to be successful in understanding the complexities of these issues. We will find them mental health agencies that will teach the family coping skills to help the family overcome the challenges that come with the trauma from the foster care, adoption, and guardianship has on the family.

CCYP provides individualized case management for youth who have left or are aging out of the foster care system. The program is designed to be a voluntary program allowing youth to opt in or out of any portion of the program. This service allows program staff to help clients accomplish a variety goals that will maximize success and limit negative outcomes.

Services for Older Foster Youth:
Housing, Employment, Legal, Education, Financial, Transportation, Community, Social, Physical Health, Mental Health, Life Skills

The Direct Services Program helps with any physical need a foster, adoptive, guardianship, or kinship family may have from backpacks full of age-appropriate items in our Begin Again Backpacks, fire extinguishers and smoke alarms, clothing and more in our Trunks, to beds/dressers for a child in their care.

Services:
Care Packs, Begin Again Backpacks, One Simple Wish, Car Seat Requests, Special Requests, Resource Requests

The Extreme Family Finding® program works to find families for the youth who have been in care for awhile, large sibling sets, the children with extra medical or psychological needs. They’re the cases considered difficult or “lost causes.” EFF® works with the clients by creating a family tree, contacting and educating family and kin, working to identify permanent adoptive resources and other sources of relational permanency for children and youth, and wrapping concierge support and post-placement services around those identified families.

Family Development Program can help you navigate the process of becoming a foster or adoptive parent, whether you’re open to a long-term or short-term commitment. All of CMFCAA’s programs are geared toward strengthening, recruiting and retaining quality foster and adoptive homes for our most vulnerable children who have suffered from neglect and abuse. 

Services:
Home Assessments, Trainings

The Kinship Navigator Program is designed to assist kinship caregiver families throughout Central Missouri in a variety of ways that help increase placement stability in both formal and informal situations.

Services for Relative/Kinship Caregiver Families:
Educational Advocacy, Basic Resources, Child Behaviors, Child Care, Child Welfar Navigation, Emergency Assistance, Employment, Financial, Future Concerns, Health Care, Housing, Legal, Mental Health, Permanency, Self-Care, Social Supports, Transportation 

Placement Preservation Program is to mitigate the disruptions in adoptive placements across our 24 counties. We often encounter foster, adoptive, and kinship families who are not always ready to face the complex trauma histories these children carry with them. We aim to help better educate and prepare those families. Our specialists utilize the innovative OpenMind® Theory developed by Dr. Monica Jackman, combined with trauma-informed cognitive-behavioral interventions.

The Respite Program provides Odyssey events are four-hour drop off events that provide a fun evening for foster children that give caregivers a chance to rest & rejuvenate! The Respite Exchange Program collects willing respite providers in order to help families seeking respite be matched with a provider that would best meet the needs of the children in care.

Services:
Odyssey Events, Respite Exchange

We are partnering with local companies to offer free transportation to our clients and their families.

Services:
Rides

The Trunk Clothing Closet is our free clothing-and-more store located at our Jefferson City, Osage Beach, and Rolla Locations. For clients that cannot make it to one of our locations, we also have a mobile Traveling Trunk Clothing Closet.