I recently read the book “The Body Keeps the Score” by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. It’s a great read and offered important lessons for me as an individual. I forget that just being alive comes with stress regardless of whether my life is brimming with...
Advocating for your foster child is a necessary task, but one that can be difficult. Experiencing trauma has a lasting effect on the brain’s ability to learn, and many foster children have gone through some type of traumatic experience. This means that the child may...
On a given day, there are nearly half a million children in the foster care system, and around one-third of those children have special needs. While foster parents are needed throughout the country, foster parents of special needs children are in especially high...
Throughout the early 1980s, thousands of medically fragile children were left to grow up in New York City hospitals. Referred to as throwaway kids, these children had healthcare and social needs that left child welfare agencies feeling overwhelmed with the prospect of...
Before making the leap to become a foster parent, it’s nice to get some insight from someone who has gone through the process before. Maybe you have people in your life who have fostered before and you can ask them for advice. If that isn’t the case for you, consider...
