The Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) licenses foster family homes, licensed child placing agencies, child caring institutions, group homes and private secure facilities.
If you are interested in becoming a licensed provider, please view the Becoming a Licensed Provider page.
If you are a parent or placing agency and wish to find additional information regarding current licensure status of a provider, please contact the DCS Residential Licensing Unit. For additional information regarding Licensed Child Placing Agencies (LCPA), please email the LCPA Licensing unit.
For all residential, LCPA foster home and group home program service standards, click here.
- Background Checks
- Contracts
- FFPSA & QRTP Tools & Resources
- Monthly Meeting Minutes
- Policies & Forms
- Rates & Fiscal Information
- Program Categories & Standards
- Vendor Profile Attachments
- General Information About Licensing
- Resources for Family Case Managers & Probation Officers
- Agencies Currently Licensed
- Intensive Foster Care Services Awarded Vendors
- Other DCS Placement Resources
- Residential Regional Contacts Map
- LCPA Licensing Unit Map
- Emergency Shelter Care Map
- Programs for Sexually Harmful Children and Young Adults Map
- Substance Use Disorder Programs Map
- Programs for youth with Intellectual and Development Disabilities (IDD) Map
- Diagnostic and Evaluations Programs Map
- Teen Mother and Baby Residential Programs Map
Indiana Department of Child Services