Providing Specialized Foster Care Families

Nashville Foster Care.

There are more than eight thousand children in Tennessee's foster care system at any one time. Of these thousands of children, roughly 2% need a higher level of care due to intellectual and developmental disabilities. These at risk youth often live with inadequate care while waiting to be placed in specialized foster homes.

Additionally, there are over seven thousand adults with disabilities who need long term care and a place to call home. Nashville Foster Care provides specialized foster care services for those groups that are most in need. 

nashvillefostercare.com is operated by MillarRich. MillarRich works closely with the Department of Children’s Services to pair children with well trained, highly skilled, loving foster families. MillarRich also works with DIDD to provide care for adults with disabilities in a similar family model setting. 

While there is a need for foster care for all children, children with disabilities are often highly underserved in our current foster system. nashvillefostercare.com with MillarRich caters specifically to this population, keeping children in a family-like setting and providing personalized coaching and ongoing support to foster parents.

To be approved as a foster-adoptive parent for children or adults in Tennessee you:

• Can be married, single or divorced

• May or may not have other children

• Can own or rent where you live

• Can work full-time

• Must be at least 21 years of age

• Must be a resident of the state of Tennessee

• Must be fingerprinted and pass a background check

• Must be able to meet the financial needs of your family

Tennessee's foster parents are dually approved to foster and adopt (if individual is of appropriate age). This allows foster parents to adopt the child they are fostering should the child become available for adoption.