AGAPE administers a “traditional” foster care program. A traditional program works with neglected or abused children as well as medically fragile children – those with special medical needs such as mental and physical handicaps or babies who need extra care, such as premature infants. In conjunction with the Department of Human Resources, these children are placed with AGAPE families throughout the 22 counties of North Alabama served by AGAPE.

The goal of our program is to place the child with a foster family who will care for the child until he or she can be reunited with parents and returned home.

However, when a return to the natural family is not possible or is unsafe, adoption is chosen as a means of giving the child the stability of a “forever family” and home.

Medically fragile foster care

A component of the traditional program, medically fragile foster care, places children with special medical needs. These special foster families go through hours of additional training in medical issues management and are able to meet the various needs of caring for children who may have feeding tubes, suffer from shaken baby syndrome, or other chronic conditions.