Who We Are

La Cuna, Spanish for "cradle," was founded in 2003 as a non-profit foster family agency to address the needs of Latino children in foster care. The founders decided to place primary emphasis on the Latino population because there are major cultural and linguistic gaps in services to this special foster population. Over the years and due to the need, our new model of care has evolved and we now serve all children ages 0 to 5. To date we have found loving foster homes for 88 babies, toddlers and young sibling groups.

In our holistic approach to serving our foster children, we also address the needs of the child's foster parents and biological parents. Culture and language factors are important to respect when considering that many or most of our foster children come from monolingual Spanish-speaking homes. Our program also emphasizes keeping siblings together.

The La Cuna difference seems to lie in our targeted outreach methods, in-house specialized foster parent training, maximum caseloads of 24 children per social worker, therapeutic services to families, child advocacy work, our utilization of evidence - based practices, and our mentoring of biological parents (when possible) to encourage that they gain additional parenting skills in their efforts to reunify. Learn More »