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Support Services for Foster Parents
Resources and information about support for foster parents caring for children.
Database of Parent Groups
North American Council on Adoptable Children
Contains almost 900 adoption-related support groups from across the United States and Canada. Includes pre-adoption, post-adoption, foster care, transracial/transcultural, international, single parent, special needs, and infertility groups.
Essential Case Management Services for Young Children in Foster Care
Zlotnick, Kronstadt, & Klee
Community Mental Health Journal, 35(5), 1999
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Identifies the services needed by foster care families and which services require the most case manager effort.
Foster Care
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Resources, presentations, and recommended websites about foster care.
FosterParentNet Final Program Report
Professional Association of Treatment Homes (2003)
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Discusses the activities and outcomes of FosterParentNet (FPN), a program designed to strengthen the network of support for and between foster parents, and to positively impact foster parent retention as well as the lives of children in their care.
Handbooks for Foster Parents
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Provides links to several online agency handbooks.
Helping Foster Parents Cope With Separation, Loss, and Grief
Edelstein, Burge, & Waterman
Child Welfare, 80(1), 2001
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Discusses the many ways foster parents encounter loss and grief, including factors that affect the intensity of the loss, the healthy expression and resolution of grief, problems that can result when foster parents' grief is not adequately addressed, and how professionals can help them cope.
The Impact of Fostering on Foster Carers' Own Children
Watson & Jones
Adoption and Fostering, 26(1), 2002
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This study recommends that social workers be trained to recognize the emotional needs of children of foster parents and develop strategies for involving them in the foster care arrangement.
Making Your Support Group Work for You
Professional Association of Treatment Homes (2003)
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This videotape for foster and adoptive parents provides information on developing social support groups to strengthen their network of support, improve foster parent retention, and enhance the lives of children in foster and adoptive care.
National Foster Care & Adoption Directory
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Includes State-by-State contact information for support groups for adoptive/foster families.
Policy Implications of Foster Family Characteristics
Barth
Family Relations, 50(1), 2001
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Proposes that foster families need more support to keep children safe and help them overcome the effects of their maltreatment, and recommends more research on the impact of foster family characteristics on foster children to inform policy and parent training programs.
Supporting Foster Parents: Caring Voices
Hudson & Levasseur
Child Welfare, 81, 2002
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Reports on survey of foster parents on the supports needed to maintain their caring role.
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