The Massachusetts Alliance for Foster Families is an advocacy association dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for children who cannot live with their biological families and for the families who care for them.

MAFF’s Mission:
  • Offer opportunities to come together and provide mutual support to each other.
  • Educate the general public about the contributions that foster, kinship, adoptive, and guardianship caregivers can make in the lives of children and about issues affecting the quality of care.
  • Advocate for appropriate public policies and needed resources.
  • Communicate regularly with the membership about issues of interest to them.
  • Provide professional development opportunities and other benefits and services requested by the membership.
  • Work in partnership with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) and MSPCC’s Kid’s Net Program to improve the system of care for the children in DCF custody.

The Board meets regularly to identify issues that concern foster, kinship, adoptive, and guardianship (FKAG) families and determine advocacy goals with regards to the legislature, DCF, or other systems that impact children in out of home placements. MAFF also hosts an annual conference for FKAG caregivers and DCF staff.

Membership in MAFF is free and open to all foster, kinship, adoptive, and guardianship parents. For more information or to get involved, please contact the MAFF Executive Board at maff@mspcc.org. 

 

Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights

The Foster Parents’ Bill of Rights creates guidelines for establishing a clear understanding between the Department of Children and Families and Massachusetts foster parents. The newly established law outlines basic rights afforded to foster parents, rights regarding the provision of foster care, and rights regarding communication and information sharing between foster parents and the Department of Children and Families (DCF).

To learn more about the law, please visit here.

The full text of the law can be found here.

Kid’s Net Training Calendar

Contact MAFF

For more information about MAFF, please contact us at maff@mspcc.org