Bedford County Department of Social Services is actively searching for families in Bedford and surrounding communities.  If you have considered opening your heart and home to a child in need, please contact us to discuss this exciting and rewarding opportunity. 

Benefits of foster parenting with Bedford County:

• Foster parents earn monthly tax-free stipends.
• Families have access to staff 24 hours a day for their support.
• Each child in the program is assigned an individual case manager to assist in coordinating needed services.
• All children in the program are given access to professional counseling services.
• Foster parents work closely with the treatment team, as a respected professional.
• All treatment decisions and background information are shared openly between the program and the parents.

If helping area children sounds interesting please contact Meg Cosby, Foster Parent Trainer, at 540-875-8815 or email Meg.Cosby@dss.virginia.gov.

The purpose of Adoption Services is to help children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents become permanent members of a new family.

If a foster child cannot be returned to his or her parents or placed with relatives, the planning goal becomes adoption. Adoption is a social and legal process that establishes the relationship of parent and child between people who do not have this relationship by birth. It provides the same rights and obligations that exist between children and their biological parents.

For more information regarding Adoption Services, please visit Virginia Department of Social Services.