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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox, including self-care strategies. Without healthy, meaningful...

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Foster Care and the Coronavirus Crisis

Foster Care and the Coronavirus Crisis

Foster children, like the rest of us, want to be held close and reassured by their loved ones. For them, many old feelings of loneliness and isolation and emotional trauma have been rekindled while in “shelter-in-place” away from their friends and families.

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May is National Foster Care Month

May is National Foster Care Month

May is National Foster Care Month. While we most definitely appreciate those of you who’ve answered the call to be foster parents ALL year, it’s important for the rest of us to understand why May is such an important month.

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Fostering Children of Color

Fostering Children of Color

If you are fostering, or intend to foster a child of color, here are a few things you can do to cultivate a positive individual and cultural identity for them.

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Important Information For Foster Parents

Important Information For Foster Parents

DCS and the Arizona Department of Education recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) whose purpose is to outline how Head Start programs and DCS will work to improve access to Early Head Start and Head Start programs throughout the state for children in...

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Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Symptoms

Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Symptoms

Helping Out Babies That Come From A Hard Place Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) by Joan Biggs As a parent and care giver there is nothing more rewarding than when our children look up at you with love and tenderness and smiles...

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Trauma Informed Care Training

Mercy Maricopa invites you to a Trauma informed care training series developed according to the needs of the caregiver community. The trainings are held at three different locations to serve all of Maricopa County. For more information on or to register, email...

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