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About Homes For Black Children
Our Story
Homes for Black Children (HBC) is a comprehensive child welfare agency with a rich history of providing services to children of all ethnicities. HBC is best known for its ground-breaking, evidence-based practice in creating permanent outcomes for African American children through Adoption and Family Preservation Services. Founded in 1969, the agency was developed to eliminate the number of African American children in Detroit who languished in foster care.
Today, Homes for Black Children continues to serve all of the Metropolitan Detroit Area, Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. The Agency provides its foster care and family reunification services through a child’s best interest criteria in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, serving a vast number of children each year. HBC also remains committed to placing children in suitable, nurturing and loving adoptive homes when reunification is not appropriate. “No child without a permanent home.”
Our Mission
At HBC, our mission is to provide safe, nurturing, and supportive homes for children in need by connecting them with compassionate foster and adoptive families. Our person-centered approach focuses on empowering families, honoring cultural identities, and promoting healing through trauma-informed care, advocacy, and lifelong support. Our work is guided by the belief that every child deserves love, stability, and the opportunity to thrive.
Our Community
Homes for Black Children (HBC) is a comprehensive child welfare agency with a rich history of providing services to children of all ethnicities. Founded in 1969, the agency was developed to address the unique needs of Black children and families in the foster care system. Perhaps HBC is best known for its ground-breaking, evidence-based practices in creating permanent positive outcomes for Black children who languished in foster care. Black children were disproportionately represented in the child welfare system. They entered the system at twice the rate of other populations, and their stay was twice as long. Their parents were least likely to receive supportive services for family reunification. While this remains true today, HBC has grown into a diverse and inclusive community that proudly serves children and families of all races and ethnicities, focusing on the Metropolitan Detroit Area – Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. The Agency provides its Foster Care, Adoption, and Family Reunification services through a child’s best interest criteria in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Our commitment to equity, compassion, and family remains the cornerstone of everything we do."
Programs and Services
Our Features
Adoption
Homes for Black Children provides adoption services focusing on the well-being of the child and brining children and families together. There are generally two types of adoptions: voluntary released infants; and children who have come from the child welfare system. Ages range from infancy through 17 years old. The process begin
Adoption
Homes for Black Children provides adoption services focusing on the well-being of the child and brining children and families together. There are generally two types of adoptions: voluntary released infants; and children who have come from the child welfare system. Ages range from infancy through 17 years old. The process begins with orientation, training and assessment.
Foster Care
Foster care provides safety for children who have been taken from their families because of abuse, neglect or abandonment. HBC provides temporary foster care for children until a decision can be made about the child's future. HBC supervises the licensed foster homes where the children have been placed to ensure their well-being.
Foster Home Licensing
Homes for Black Children is a foster home licensing agency supported by a multitude of nurturing foster families. These special foster families provide care for the children in crisis and give them love and a sense of comfort and belonging until they can return to their birth parents.
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