Foster Care Caseworker Goals for Reunification
Usually a foster care caseworker is assigned to a new case within two to four weeks of a child or children entering the foster care system. Siblings entering foster care would normally have the same...
View ArticleLong Term Permanency Plan for Foster Child
Do you need to know the long term permanency plan for a foster child in order to accept placement into your home? If you do, it will limit the number of placements you receive as a foster parent. The...
View ArticleIs My House Too Clean, Too Dirty, Too Cluttered to Foster
When people who do not regularly come over, are coming to your home it can make you feel apprehensive about what they will think. Especially when they show up unannounced and your house looks like a...
View ArticleGroup Homes and Other Craziness
I almost threw a rock at my television the other day. A television actress was bragging to Ellen or someone about a group home she started in her home town in Mississippi. She said she started the...
View ArticleReading and Puddin’ Update
I heard from Puddin’s new mommy this week. It was so gratifying to hear how they are doing. They are getting used to each other and Puddin’ is starting to realize they are hers; she has been...
View ArticleIs Foster Care for You?
One of the hardest parts of becoming a foster parent for my family was meeting the regulations that are in place. Living on a farm that is full of animals and heavy machinery made it difficult for us...
View ArticleCourage and a Willing Heart
There is a certain distinguishing fact about foster care parents that sets them apart from other parents. There is a compassion that runs deeply in their lives and hearts that cannot be quieted. They...
View ArticleRespect and Research
One of the hardest things to decide in life is whether to foster a child. It is such a difficult decision because of the huge change it makes on the existing family dynamic. The family relationship is...
View ArticleA Home Filled with Love and Laughter
As I sit here thinking this morning, I cannot help but bring focus on the huge need for foster parents today. There are so many children in need of solid, stable homes and so few prepared to stand in...
View ArticleForever Families
One of the coolest things about the month of November is that it is National Adoption Month. I love that there is a whole month dedicated to the children who have been adopted, the parents that have...
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