Inner Circle is a private, non-profit, state licensed corporation founded to provide safe and loving foster homes to serve abused, neglected and abandoned children in Los Angeles County. Inner Circle provides social work support and educational training to help the foster parents once the child is placed in the home, including 24 hour support service. Inner Circle places children from newborn to the age of 18. Inner Circle helps you decide what age child will work best in your family based on your child care accomodations and if you have natural children. Foster children are covered under Medi-Cal for their medical and dental needs.
Inner Circle recognizes that single parents can give high quality care to an abused child.
However, more emphasis and planning is invested into solidifying a structured child care plan including after school care and daycare for school vacations and holidays. Once the children have been in the court system for eighteen months, and they are no longer reunifying with their parent, many are available for adoption. Foster parents and babysitters must be fingerprinted and cleared by the Department of Justice. The caretakers must complete the FREE Foster Parent Training course. The course is 30 hours, and is offered in the evenings and on Saturdays.