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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...
Foster Care and the Coronavirus Crisis
Foster children, like the rest of us, want to be held close and reassured by their loved ones. For them, many old feelings of loneliness and isolation and emotional trauma have been rekindled while in “shelter-in-place” away from their friends and families.
May is National Foster Care Month
May is National Foster Care Month. While we most definitely appreciate those of you who’ve answered the call to be foster parents ALL year, it’s important for the rest of us to understand why May is such an important month.
Talking To Children About Coronavirus and Saving Your Sanity At Home
Whether you’ve been talking to your children about Coronavirus for several weeks, or you’re just starting, there’s never been a better moment for you and your family to turn a bad situation into a special time than right now. Hang in there moms and dads, we’re with you.
Change A Child’s Life: The Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit
Reduce your state tax liability and change a child’s life today by donating to Agape Adoption Agency of Arizona and utilizing the Arizona Foster Care Tax Credit.
Fostering Children of Color
If you are fostering, or intend to foster a child of color, here are a few things you can do to cultivate a positive individual and cultural identity for them.
Important Information For Foster Parents
DCS and the Arizona Department of Education recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) whose purpose is to outline how Head Start programs and DCS will work to improve access to Early Head Start and Head Start programs throughout the state for children in...
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Symptoms
Helping Out Babies That Come From A Hard Place Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) by Joan Biggs As a parent and care giver there is nothing more rewarding than when our children look up at you with love and tenderness and smiles...
Trauma Informed Care Training
Mercy Maricopa invites you to a Trauma informed care training series developed according to the needs of the caregiver community. The trainings are held at three different locations to serve all of Maricopa County. For more information on or to register, email...
