Center for Family Services
Treatment Foster Care
Criteria for Admissions

The program serves children who require treatment services because they are seriously emotionally disturbed, developmentally disabled, or have a serious medical illness and cannot be maintained with their biological family or a traditional foster family. Such children are at 'high risk' for more restrictive settings due to the child's treatment needs.

You may call our office at (410)685-2363 for an information packet or download it by clicking here.

The Center for Family Services, Treatment Foster Care Program accepts children from the following systems:

• Department of Social Services
• Department of Juvenile Justice
• Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
• Local Management Boards
• Core Service Agencies
• Private Providers

The Center for Family Services, Treatment Foster Care Program admits children and adolescents meeting the following criteria:

• Males or Females ages birth to 21
• Children who have suffered from abuse or neglect
• Children must have court written authority for placement in TFC
• Children stepping down from residential care
• Children with DSM-IV diagnoses including but not limited to:

a) Mood Disorders
b) ADHD
c) Oppositional Defiant Disorder
d) Adjustment Disorders
e) Attachment Disorders
f) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
g) Conduct Disorders
h) Anxiety Disorders
i) Dissociative Disorders
j) Pervasive Developmental Disorders

• Children with the following behavior problems:

a) Aggression (verbal or physical)
b) Running Away
c) Sexually Reactive or Sexually Offending Behaviors
d) Fire Setting
e) Drug/Alcohol Use/Abuse That Does Not Require Inpatient Treatment
f) Suicidal Ideation or Intent That Does Not Require Current Hospitalization
g) Thought Disorder That Does Not Require Current Hospitalization
h) Pre-Natal Drug Exposure/Addiction

• Medically Fragile Children (including HIV/AIDS)
• Children With Borderline Intelligence or Mild Mental Retardation
• Children With Learning Disabilities