What is Foster Parenting
Fostering is a means of providing children with a safe, loving, caring and stable environment until they can return home to their families or until a permanent plan for these children can take place.
Children are placed in foster care when their families cannot provide adequate care due to conflict and violence in the family home, neglect of physical and emotional needs, substance abuse, child abuse, and mental health problems.
Foster children range in age from infants to 18yrs and come from various cultural, racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Some children are in care voluntarily and others are in care by a court order. Every attempt is made to place sisters and brothers in the same foster home.
Children may remain in care for a few days or for many years depending on their needs, and whether or not families can make the necessary changes to ensure the child’s safety if returned home. A permanency plan for every child is paramount.
Foster parents come from all walks of life. Foster parents are all ages, and at various stages in life.
Fostering can be provided in a variety of ways within the agency. Foster parents are needed to provide care on a full time basis for a long period of time, to provide relief care to other foster parents to provide care just a relief weekend but on a temporary basis, to attend a another foster parents home to provide care in the event of a family emergency, to provide emergency admission care, or treatment foster care..
What is Foster Parenting
Fostering is a means of providing children with a safe, loving, caring and stable environment until they can return home to their families or until a permanent plan for these children can take place.
Children are placed in foster care when their families cannot provide adequate care due to conflict and violence in the family home, neglect of physical and emotional needs, substance abuse, child abuse, and mental health problems.
Foster children range in age from infants to 18yrs and come from various cultural, racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Some children are in care voluntarily and others are in care by a court order. Every attempt is made to place sisters and brothers in the same foster home.
Children may remain in care for a few days or for many years depending on their needs, and whether or not families can make the necessary changes to ensure the child’s safety if returned home. A permanency plan for every child is paramount.
Foster parents come from all walks of life. Foster parents are all ages, and at various stages in life.
Fostering can be provided in a variety of ways within the agency. Foster parents are needed to provide care on a full time basis for a long period of time, to provide relief care to other foster parents to provide care just a relief weekend but on a temporary basis, to attend a another foster parents home to provide care in the event of a family emergency, to provide emergency admission care, or treatment foster care..