Foster Care
Information and resources for those considering becoming foster parents, for foster parents, and for those who were formerly fostered. Support, training, money issues, transitions, and practical help.
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Becoming a Foster Parent
Information and resources to help with your decision to become a foster parent, including where to start, questions to ask, challenges, and rewards.
- Becoming a Foster Parent
- LifeBooks & Waiting Families
- Looking for Mr./Ms. Goodworker
- Multiple Transitions
- Treatment Foster Care: One Parent's Story
- Library of Articles: Becoming a Foster Parent
Child & Youth Issues
Information and resources pertaining to developmental, emotional, mental, and physical health issues of concern to parents, including Attachment Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, drug addiction, ADD, attitudes, and behaviors.
Essentials for Foster Care
This is the place to look for specifics and requirements. Find your state foster care specialist, education, the foster care rates, tax issues for foster families, insurance, and your rights and responsibilities.
Formerly Fostered
Resources, information, and community for adults who spent time in foster care. Includes support groups, foster family search, personal stories, and general information.
Foster Parents
Resources, information, and online education for foster parents in the U.S., Canada, and around the world including adopting a foster child, transition to independent living, services for foster families, and more.
- Foster Parent Adoption
- Foster Parenting Services
- Parenting Foster Children
- Transition-to-Independent Living Programs
Organizations & Support Groups
Foster parent organizations and support groups provide community, a place to share experiences, participate in advocacy efforts, and keep up with new laws and trends.
Therapeutic Foster Care & Group Homes
Therapeutic Foster Care and Therapeutic Group Homes offer specialized care interventions for children and youth with severe emotional and/or behavioral challenges.
Family Strategies PublishingWorkbooks for children on the topics of moving to a foster home or adoptive home, lifebook workbooks, learning what professionals do to find an adoptive family for a child, and going to an adoption finalization hearing.
Online excerpts from this excellent print magazine for, by, and about kids in foster care.
History of Foster Care in the US
This reprint of an article from the National Advocate is offered by Foster Parent Community.
Why Don't Kids Have a Voice?
Background information on the ABC investigative report on kids in foster care by John Stossel. ABC News
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