Foster parents provide a temporary home for children when they cannot remain in their own home. Care is given until the child's parents can resume this responsibility or until a permanent plan is made with relative or adoptive parents. Provides licensing, recruits foster parents, and training. Types of foster care: - Family foster care Treated as family members, these children, and teens receive full-time, short- or long-term care. - Kinship foster care Relatives, family friends, and those with a significant relationship with the child(ren) may be licensed to provide child foster care. - Respite care This program provides birth parents and foster parents with relief care for a few hours and up to a few days at a time.