Foster Care

cindys on May 6th, 2008

This is a continuing series on Foster Care as I complete my training to become a certified therapeutic foster parent. For more information on foster care or to read more about my journey, please stop by my blog on foster care and parenting My Chosen Children. One of the considerations in deciding to do foster [...]

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May is National Foster Care month.  I have been doing some research on different ways that people can help foster kids if they can’t or don’t want to become a foster parent.   I found a great little resource for financial education.   The Annie E Casey Foundation publishes several workbooks to teach foster children about personal [...]

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cindys on April 29th, 2008

by tenshi_cr This is an ongoing weekly series as I complete the training and approval process for therapeutic foster care. I am by no means an expert and laws differ by state. The series is written in response to the questions that I am asking myself as I go through the process and I hope [...]

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cindys on April 22nd, 2008

If you watch NBC, you will have seen the Wednesday’s Child segments they do on children in foster care who are available to be adopted. Most of these children are preteens and teens who have been in ‘the system’ for years. In a lot of cases these children have been in multiple foster homes. It’s [...]

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