Planning a Family Trip with Your Foster Child
Planning a family trip with a foster child requires planning, but it can be a great bonding and trust-building opportunity. If a foster child has just joined your family, you’re probably excited—and maybe a little uneasy—about taking your very first family vacation...
Strengthening Minds & Uplifting Families in Foster Care
May is National Foster Care Month and this year’s focus is on supporting the mental health needs of children and youth in foster care. Studies suggest that among the 391,000 children and youth in foster care, up to 80 percent exhibit a serious behavioral or mental...
Self-Care for Foster Parents
Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox, including self-care strategies. Without healthy, meaningful...
A Dozen Things I Wish I’d Known Before Fostering
Foster parenting can be a rich, rewarding journey—for you and your spouse, for your biological family, and for your foster child. To help you avoid unexpected pitfalls and disappointment that can surface as you embark on this adventure, here’s a rundown of some basic...
Five Things Every Child Needs to Hear
Our words have power Kind words are like honey, sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. –Proverbs 16:24 A person’s words can be life-giving water; words of true wisdom are as refreshing as a bubbling brook. –Proverbs 18:4 “Kind words can be short and easy to...
A New Beginning for Struggling Families: How Foster Care Helps
Happy New Year! With 2022 in the rear view mirror, it’s time to crack open a shiny, new calendar and think “new beginnings.” It’s time for a fresh start, maybe even a “do-over.” Collaborating with birth parents, adoptive and foster families, government agencies, and...
Family is the Best Gift
Being blessed with a healthy family is no small thing—because the benefits are far-reaching. When you’ve been raised in a strong family, it’s easy to overlook the advantages you’ve enjoyed. But fostering or adopting a child from a troubled family often brings them...
Help At-Risk Youth in Foster Care During National Adoption Month
Over 117,000 children and youth across the country are in foster care waiting for a forever family. Many are teenagers at risk of aging out of foster care without permanent family connections. In 2020, more than 20 percent of those waiting to be adopted were teens,...
Helping Children With Trauma at Halloween
Trauma is all too common for many foster children whose lives have already been rocked by anger, confusion, and separation. These kids are often scared of the dark, and freaked out by thunderstorms, and shaken by loud voices and visions of monsters under their bed. At...Gallery
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