PATH North Dakota has provided personalized care to special needs foster children and families in the entire state for the past nine years. During that time, PATH North Dakota has pioneered the treatment foster care concept and has built a reputation for quality and leadership in the foster care field. Since its inception, PATH North Dakota has sought to serve children in the least “institutional” setting possible, while still bringing the needed services to the child. Treatment foster care was designed to provide extra supports and foster parent training to allow a special needs child to have the security and normalcy of a family home, while receiving the services to help them address personal challenges and difficult family backgrounds.

PATH North Dakota is headquartered in Fargo and has eight additional offices across the state. A volunteer board of 17 oversees state business. PATH North Dakota currently employs 110 staff members. Since 1994, PATH has been the primary provider of treatment foster care in North Dakota, contracting with the state Department of Human Services. Last year, we served 1,039 children.