What is foster care? It’s much of what you might think, and maybe a little of what you wouldn’t… Check out a snapshot of our Fostering experience: The First & Last Night, Preventing Burnout, A Day In My Life, Change, Training, Encouragement, Caseworkers, Adoption, Reunification…
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Check out a snapshot of our Fostering experience.
Introduction, Statistics In Our Area, Our Story to Foster Care, Attachment, Reform In Foster Care, Foster Care “F” Words, Birth Families/First Families, Foster Care Tribe, Asking For Help, A Funny Story, and more!
I remember receiving what must have been a dozen phone calls over the course of a week… just waiting for a placement.
We waited… and waited… and waited. I thought, “Surely, there is a child out there for us. During training classes, we heard nonstop about the great need for willing families.”
Fostering Babies – Must Haves – 12 Things to have on hand before fostering newborns and infants, plus 12 things you may not have thought of to have…
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With all the paperwork we’re handed left and right as foster parents, it can be overwhelming trying to find the right place for it all! It can be a hassle not to mix up papers between kids, and even worse to lose important documents! With our very first placement, we…
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To be honest, our foster care journey caught us completely by surprise. Foster care and adoption was something that was always in our hearts, but not at the forefront of our minds. The idea of ever fostering or adopting never came up in conversation as we got to know each other during our season of dating… or after marriage… or even when we spoke of starting of family. It was only after…
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Keeping all of your foster care paperwork can be a daunting task, especially when you are fostering more than one child at a time. Check out our organization tips here…
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