The Mockingbird Family Model
The Mockingbird Family Model is an award-winning, innovative model for foster care delivery that offers practical, cost-effective solutions to improve the lives of our most vulnerable children and youth.
The Mockingbird Family Model (MFM) is a simple, yet innovative concept which establishes a sense of extended family and community around the participating children, youth, and families. In each MFM Constellation, six to ten families (foster, kinship, foster-to-adopt, and/or birth families) live in close proximity to a central, licensed foster care family (Hub Home) whose role is to provide
- assistance in navigating systems
- peer support for children and parents
- impromptu and regularly scheduled social activities
- planned respite nearly 24/7, and crisis respite as needed
The Mockingbird Family Model builds in the predictable resources necessary to support families, stabilize children, and increase opportunities for birth family reunification, adoption, and other permanency options.
Parents and children no longer have to face problems alone; they can rely on the experience and support of an extended community of peers who understand the challenges they face each day.
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“Being part of the Constellation has added to the enrichment of my foster children by creating relationships between my children and others. I feel the Constellation makes all of us better individuals.” – Mockingbird Family Model Hub Home Parent |
View the Mockingbird Family Model brochure (PDF)to learn more about this innovative model of foster care delivery.