Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care

National Foster Parent Assoc. · Rachel Greene Baldino MSW, LCSW

abr 2009 · Distribuido por Penguin

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Change a child's life!

Reap the rewards of becoming a foster parent.

Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year—and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted people willing to become foster parents. But what does it take to become a foster parent? How does one begin? What about your own family? What does it cost?

Success as a Foster Parent has the answers to these basic questions and much more. Written by Rachel Greene Baldino, MSW, in association with the National Foster Parent Association, it is the first and only commercially available book to clearly explain the process of becoming a foster parent.

Readers will learn:

• The questions to ask before making the decision to be a foster caregiver
• How to research local state and private agencies
• The financial cost and the compensation
• The challenges involved in caring for children from infants to teens, including physically- and              psychologically-challenged kids
• Issues relating to schools, birth parents, supervisory visits, vacations, and dozens of other factors
• All about adoption

In addition to concrete information, there are dozens of moving stories drawn from interviews with veteran foster parents and tips about caregiving.

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The National Foster Parent Association is a nonprofit officially founded in 1972 to address the needs of foster families in the United States. In 1967 the Child Welfare League of America decided to use a three-year grant to establish an organization for foster parents. Today the NFPA represents thousands of families nationwide and provides services and resources at the local, state, and national level.

Rachel Greene Baldino, MSW, LCSW, writes a relationship column for the health and wellness website SixWise.com. She is the coauthor of Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Sexual Desire, and the author of the ebook Loving Simply: Eliminating Drama from Your Intimate Relationships.