Part of Strategies for Foster and Group Home Care Trilogy

Foster parenting is gratifying but oftentimes difficult work. The aim of A Foster Parent's Handbook is to provide guidelines to make the foster parenting process simpler; to empower the reader to open heart and home to needy children.

Part I outlines some critical steps necessary to prepare your home for foster children; safety and supervision are highlighted.

Part II reviews a foster child's long-term adjustment to your foster home, including adult and peer relations; school issues; physical and emotional health; goals and planning; foster parent burnout.

More and more, foster children mirror, through their behaviors, the social ills with which our society is struggling. We need committed and well-trained foster parents, now!

127 pgs.