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Trained foster parents are at the heart of this program. They are committed to accepting troubled children into their homes, providing them a safe, nurturing environment and persevering in teaching the children more effective skills that will allow them to get their needs met. They work cooperatively with the child's family to achieve the best possible relationship.
Foster care consultants support the foster parents by providing pre-service training, meeting with them regularly in their homes to work on the on-going treatment plan, problem solving, and skill development. Foster parents gather monthly for a support group to learn from each other and to support one another.
Foster care, along with Group Care, continues to maintain national recognition as a Certified Sponsor Site of the
Teaching Family
Association. This means we have met nationally recognized standards for excellence in training, consultation, evaluation, and support administration. All this is aimed at providing ever better service to the foster children and their families.
Foster parents have the opportunity to be certified as Professional Foster Parents by the National Teaching-Family Association.
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| Check out the Frequently
Asked Questions portion of the website to provide additional insight
to the foster care process as well as the
Links page for additional Foster Care Resources.
For the benefit of current Foster Parents, commonly
used forms are made available on this site for download/printing.
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