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By Carrie Craft, About.com

Arkansas

State Foster Care

Basic Information: "Foster families provide an essential substitute family-life experience to children for who DCFS has been given responsibility by the court. Foster parents serve as substitute parents or a decision is reached to free the child to form new family ties with relatives or an adoptive family. Relatives may be considered for approval as kinship foster homes for children who are in the custody of the state."

Contact Information : 501) 682-8450

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