TFI Family Services has announced a new senior vice president of foster care and residential services.
Pam Richardson has over 25 years of experience in child and family services, starting as a youth care worker with Kaw Valley Residential Center in Pittsburg and then joining TFI in 2000. Since joining TFI, Richardson has had several roles, including foster care worker, supervisor, director and vice president of foster care.
Richardson’s new role includes oversight and management of foster care programs in Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. She will also oversee residential programs currently established in Kansas and Texas. She will also manage TFI’s expansion into Missouri.
TFI started as a summer camp near Admire in 1965 and rapidly grew into a long-term residential care operation. TFI moved from rural Admire to Emporia in 1987, adding an emergency shelter in 1989, securing a child placement license in 1990, opening a visitation and exchange center in 1995 and securing a foster care and reintegration contract with the state in 2000. It began expanding services outside Kansas in 2012. Last year, TFI served more than 6,200 children through prevention, foster care, adoption and residential services.
