We Require Screening of All Potential Parents

There is no other foster agency that utilizes psychological screening as part of the process of assessing individuals for their suitability to become foster parents.

Fostering infants and toddlers is not an easy task for the “weak-hearted” and entrusting this job to psychologically stable individuals gives these children and our society a hopeful future.

Angels understands the importance of finding the right parents and knows that children who experience life with psychologically and emotionally healthy foster parents show significant improvements in all areas of their development and growth. Angels foster parents are flexible and realistic about the work involved and they have a stable lifestyle and good coping skills.

To ensure the mental and emotionally fit foster parents, Angels administers the MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) to all applicants and the test is scored by Nancy Haller, Ph.D. The MMPI-2 is the most widely used personality test in the United States and around the world and ensures psychological healthy foster parents for each child.

In the video below, clinical psychologist Dr. Richard Levak discusses the MMPI and its important role in parent screening: