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”. 

Sadly today, Black children are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system.  They enter the system at twice the rate of other populations, and their stay is twice as long.  Their parents are least likely to receive supportive services for family reunification.  Through its family preservation services, HBC focuses on providing services to urban children regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity that will lead to timely family reunification.  It is the mission of Homes for Black Children to assure that every child has a permanent home.

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.