Many people jump into foster care because they want to love on kids (which is awesome!). There is no shame here in choosing to open your home to a child who needs a safe place to land for a day, a month, years, or forever.
At Valley Youth House, we do more than just provide a home for vulnerable, abused and homeless youth; we partner with thousands of individuals to build a solid foundation for young people and their families.
Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services’ mission is to provide and promote safety, permanency, and well-being for children and youth at risk of abuse, neglect, and delinquency.
When becoming foster parents there is what you picture. Then, there is the reality of foster parents. We polled our followers and came up with this list of the top things foster parents wish they knew before fostering.
The share of children who are Black and in foster care is the lowest it has been in two decades. Even so, Black children are still overrepresented among youth in foster care relative to the general child population.
When we first started in foster care, we were unfamiliar with WIC. It took us a whole host of blunders before we finally got things up and running for our little girl.
