News Report | November 10, 2021
Delaware DSCYF Adding Therapeutic Foster Care Services To Placement Continuum; Issues RFP
The Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families (DSCYF), Division of Family Services (DFS) is preparing to add therapeutic foster care (TFC) services as a new option to its continuum of foster care placements. TFC placements will be provided in individual foster family home settings to provide an appropriate step-down service following institutional residential treatment or hospital setting or to prevent placement in an institutional residential treatment facility due to lack of less-restrictive foster care options. TFC is intended to be a short-term placement that will meet the youth’s specific needs until the . . .