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Fostering Families

Professional Perspectives

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Depending on who is talking, the professionals guiding and implementing public and private child welfare systems either move mountains or stall traffic. Fostering Families TODAY provides a topical forum for professionals to discuss issues, share resources and solutions that are working in their agencies, provide informed content that may meet the need for some families continuing education credits, and alert readers to trends and innovations that will impact them directly.

• The rights of children in foster care

• Sorting out the issues of children in care: race, development, culture, sibling placements and long range planning

• Educational needs of children in out-of-home care:
  • educational testing
  • school placements
  • learning/adjustment problems
  • therapy
• Advocating for a child placed in care
• Fost-adoptive planning
• Special needs of abused and neglected children
• Therapeutic/medical foster care

Regular Columns

Spotlight- featuring:

• A family
• A child
• A leader in the field of foster care and adoption

Point/Counterpoint- Both sides of an issue

• Foster care or orphanages?
• Medicaid: boon or boondogle?
• Adoption or permanent foster care: which really works for the family?

Ask the Experts- An advice column

First-Person Stories by Foster and Adoptive Families

The stories we share provide intimate ways to learn from one another. They form the fabric of our lives. In Fostering families TODAY, foster and adoptive families share the stories of how they came to be and how it is for them from the "parenting trenches." Joy filled or frustrating, stories are empowering. Each one says, "This is how it is for me. How is it for you?"

When you first issue arrives, pull up a chair, get comfortable, and read stories of foster parenting and adoption as it is for families who have chosen it and are living it now. Fostering Families TODAY is the next best thing to an intimate chat with a good friend. Every family has a story (and photos, too) worth sharing with friends...and readers. Why not think about sharing yours?

Reflections- Young adult and teen adoptees answer your questions on adoption and foster care from their perspective.