Foster Care & Adoption Support

MAFF leads statewide advocacy efforts to promote the well-being of children in out-of-home placements and the foster, kinship, adoptive, and guardianship families who care for them. Our focus is to promote placement stability for foster children and recruitment and retention of quality foster caregivers. Membership in MAFF is free and open to all foster, kinship, adoptive, and guardianship parents as well as anyone interested in improving the foster care system.

We exist to help find adoptive homes for the hundreds of children and teens in Massachusetts foster care in need of permanent families.

The local mission of our chapter is to make the greatest impact possible for alumni by forging new pathways to opportunity through education, advocacy, and access to resources.

HopeWell provides a range of critical services to children, families, and individuals across Massachusetts. We also support children experiencing foster care as they grow their early literacy skills; youth who are "aging out" of foster care and transitioning into adulthood; families involved with the child welfare system; and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Our mission is to create community and opportunity for current and former foster youth through education, employment, service and leadership. Open to foster care alum and supporters.