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Foster Parenting: Resources for Foster Parents and Prospective Foster Parents

Foster parents provide safe and nurturing homes for children who have been temporarily removed from their family homes. They work as part of a team to ensure that children are reunified with their families or provided with a permanent family through adoption or guardianship. It is important that foster parents are involved in case planning and have access to training, so they can help ensure positive outcomes for the children placed in their care.

Information Gateway website sections that provide information and resources about:

• Becoming a foster parent
• Getting involved in case planning for your foster child
• Foster parent training

Becoming a foster parent

Out-of-Home Care

• Becoming a foster parent

Frequently Asked Questions

• Out-of-home care

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Getting involved in case planning for your foster child

Achieving & Maintaining Permanency

• Foster parents' role in supporting permanency
• Preparing children and youth for permanency
• Working with the courts for permanency
• Foster parent-birth parent relationships
• Concurrent planning
• Transition and postplacement support

Out-of-Home Care

• Caring for children in foster care
• Parent-child visits

Systemwide

• State laws on making permanency plans for children in care

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Foster parent training

Out-of-Home Care

• Preservice training for resource families
• Inservice/Specialized training
• Caring for children in foster care

Systemwide

• Training for foster, adoptive, and kinship families

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Updated on February 24, 2010