Permanency Care Assistance Program

Permanency Care Assistance Program provides monthly payments of $400-$545 to relatives and fictive kin who permanently care for children in managing conservatorship, continuing until children turn 18 or 21.

Eligibility

• Care recipient age: at least 16
• Relationship: grandparent, other relative, non relative

How to apply

• Apply to become foster parents; care for the child as foster parents for at least six months; negotiate and sign a Permanency Care Agreement; go to court to get legal custody of the child