Growing Families - Adoption and Foster Care Support

Foster Care Services

Foster Care provides a temporary home for children or youth in the foster care system. CHS offers flexible training options to help you become a licensed foster parent, plus 24/7 support throughout your journey.

Adoption Services

Learn About Adoption

We work with foster parents and relatives, along with other select individuals, who desire to provide permanent, loving homes for children and youth who are unable to be raised by their parents. In addition to helping you through the entire adoption process, we offer lifelong post adoption services.

Start with a Connection

Meet Children Waiting for a Family

Every child deserves love, support, and a place to call home. Meet the youth in foster care across North Carolina who are waiting for a permanent family to help them thrive.

Meet The Children

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What it’s like to be a foster parent: Kayleigh Connell’s story

Kayleigh Connell, a 33-year-old teacher from High Point, North Carolina, shares some of the rewards and challenges of being a foster parent and explains how it can change your life.

Read Kayleigh's Story

Kayleigh Connell, licensed foster parent and teacher in High Point, NC, sharing her CHS story about foster parent training, licensing requirements, youth placement, trauma-informed care, and how to become a foster parent in NC while maintaining a full-time career.

Foster care success badge representing CHS-approved caregivers who have completed youth placement, trauma-aware training, foster care licensing, and the full process to become foster parents in NC.

What It’s Like to Be a Foster Parent: Amber & Ed’s Story

Hear firsthand from successful foster parents about how it’s changed their lives.

Read Amber and Ed's Story

Amber and Ed, licensed foster parents in NC, share how becoming a foster parent gave them purpose, brought adoption into their lives, helped siblings stay together, and gave them the tools through CHS to navigate youth trauma and long-term care.

Badge icon representing completion of CHS’s foster care training and certification process in NC, celebrating foster parents who support youth through trauma, provide placement stability, and stay active in post-licensing support services.

Fostering a Family Member: What Helped These Kinship Care Providers Raise Their Grandson

Learn about Kinship Care and how it allows family members or close friends (“fictive kin”) to provide temporary or permanent care to children whose parents are unable to care for them.

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