Raising Foster Children: Truths To Heal Adopted, Orphaned, And Waiting Children's Hearts: Requirements For Adopting A Child

Foster care is a protective service to children and their families when families can no longer care for their children. There are many reasons and circumstances that make it difficult for biological families to meet the needs of their children, which include poverty, substance abuse, mental illness, homelessness, loss of a job or lack of support from extended family and community. In foster care, the children are provided with a safe, nurturing, loving family for a temporary period of time.

GROWING UP IN PLACEMENT TAKES A TOLL, NOT JUST ON THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE FOSTER CARE SYSTEM, BUT ALSO THE PROFESSIONALS AND FOSTER PARENTS CHARGED WITH THEIR CARE. They make critical decisions that can affect a foster child's life forever, which is why this book plays a valuable role in foster care training.

The purpose of this foster care book is to provide child welfare and social work professionals insightful feedback from former fosters who grew up in

• Foster family
• Kinship care
• Orphanage
• Group home
• Juvenile justice
• Adoptive and
• Mental health placements.

These former foster kids have chosen to reflect on their childhood experiences through the lens of adult professionals, so that their unique knowledge might reach receptive minds looking to improve services to foster youth living in US foster care.