Before You Foster…
Parenting requires a great deal of time and energy. Having a healthy marriage is foundational for parenting in general, but even more so for foster parenting. Couples should do careful self-assessment before becoming foster parents. Evaluate your communication and...
Celebrating Foster Care Awareness
Celebrating Foster Care Awareness 8 ways to get involved May was National Foster Care Awareness Month in the United States, where there are close to 400,000 children in the system at any given time. More than 100,000 of them need adoptive families. While there are...
Fostering Families
Building and maintaining constructive, positive relationships with your foster child’s biological family requires hard work, patience, grace, and understanding. But the long-term results will be worth it. Your head tells you that cultivating these connections is the...
Navigating Those Painful Goodbyes
Part of foster care is the inevitable reality that you’ll have to say goodbye to a child you have cared for. It’s never easy. Never. Whether the child has been in your care for a weekend, a month, several months, or even years, these farewells are usually some...Gallery
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