Baby Safety Month: How Foster Care Keeps Babies Safe
Providing foster care for a newborn is labor-intensive and demanding, but there’s great satisfaction in understanding the safety foster homes provide to vulnerable infants. Some of the youngest children in foster care have only been outside their mother’s womb for a...
Back-to-School Tips for Foster Parents
Back-to-School Tips for Foster Parents It’s that time of year again – families are starting to get ready for summer to end and school to begin. Preparing to switch gears from the lazy, unstructured days of summer to the more defined routine of the school year can...
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...
10 Reasons YOU Want to Be a Foster Parent
In the frenetic pace of your life, do you ever reflect on what attracted you to become a foster parent in the first place? Maybe you’ve had a fire in your belly about fostering since you were a teenager…or a television commercial, social media post, or talk show...
Pulling Out the Welcome Mat for Your Foster Child
Making Your Foster Child Feel at Home First impressions matter! As you prepare to make your new foster child feel at home, remember it’s the little things you do that can make all the difference. The Initial Meeting: When he arrives at your house, come out smiling...
2022 Resolutions for Foster Parents
We’ve assembled some popular New Year’s resolutions and aligned them with foster parenting. Hope they help you and your child move confidently into 2022! This New Year is a blank canvas. Use these ideas to paint an inspiring picture on it. Volunteer. You’ve already...Gallery
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