Transitional Housing Program | Preparing Former Foster Youth For Adulthood
Foster Care Agency | How To Make A Difference With Foster Care
Foster Care Agency | Being a resource parent can be a very difficult but also very important job. It can be perceived as difficult to make a real difference because children may only be spending a short amount of time in your care. However, even when there for a short time it is still important and possible to provide a lasting impression for children in need. Here are some ways to make this possible. Listen No matter how long or short the amount of time you spend with a child [...]
How To Become A Foster Parent In California | My Personal Experience
How To Become A Foster Parent in California | Foster parenting is what you make of it. Ideally you will use it as a fulfilling way to help children become better versions of themselves. Although everyone’s experience is slightly different there are certain lessons that most foster parents learn to be true. Here are some of the learning experiences that are learned over the time of being a foster parent. Learning patience One experience I learned from foster parenting is that patience is very important. Often children transitioning to [...]
Foster To Adopt | A Biological Child’s Perspective to Adopting a Child
Foster To Adopt | Adopting a child is a great act that can benefit not only the adopted child but everyone involved as well. With that being said, it is not always an easy transition to make especially for your biological children that are already living in your home. A biological child that now must transition to sharing their home with an adopted child can experience a great range of emotions. Here are some of the fears that can occur from a biological child’s perspective. Loss of attention One [...]
Foster Parenting | Ways To Support Children In Need
Foster Parenting | Children are the future of this world and helping them grow into future leaders is our responsibility to the next generation. There are a variety of ways that you can help children in need. Some of these ways require more time and effort than others but regardless they are helping children to become productive citizens. Here are a few ways that you can support children in need. Become a Court Appointed Special Advocate One way to help children in need is to become a Court Appointed [...]
Becoming A Foster Parent In CA | 5 Steps To Become A Foster Parent
Becoming A Foster Parent In CA | 5 Steps To Become A Foster Parent Becoming a foster parent in CA is a goal shared by many people living around the world. Foster parents come from a variety of different backgrounds but all are working towards the same goal: to improve the lives of their foster children. Becoming a foster parent requires that you show signs of maturity and stability so that you can be trusted to care for another life. Here are 5 steps you need to take before you [...]
Adopt Children | Adopting Older Kids: Independence vs. Attachment
Adopt Children | Adopting Older Kids: Independence vs. Attachment Q: When adopting older kids, how can parents balance the competing goals of creating attachment at the same time as honoring their teens need for independence? A: With patience and empathy. This can be one of the scariest times for an adoptee. The unspoken fear of total abandonment is ever-present at this stage of adolescence. Teens have a natural, biological urge to separate and distance, yet there is also the need for continued bonding. This paradox can feel confusing, disturbing and awkward for [...]
Adopt A Child | Books On Toddler And Older Child Adoption For Adoptive Parents
Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Children Over Age Four by Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero, MA; Gloria Russo Wassell, MS, LMHC; and Victor Groza, PhD. – This is a wonderful resource full of practical and hopeful tips for parents who have adopted a child over age four from foster care or through international adoption. This thorough guide lists the issues an older adopted child faces and provides a comprehensive overview of problems and how adopting parents can successfully deal with them, including critical information about developmental issues; problems related [...]
Foster Parenting | Nature vs. Nurture in Adoption
Foster Parenting | Nature vs. Nurture in Adoption Foster Parenting | Adoptive parents want to understand nature vs. nurture or genetics vs. environment in the context of adoption. How much can adoptive parents influence how their children turn out? Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Sally Ann Rhea, the study coordinator for the Colorado Adoption Project, and Dr. Alexandra Burt, Associate Professor of behavioral genetics with affiliation with the Michigan State University Twin Registry. Source: Creating A [...]