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Every child deserves to be loved and to grow up in a safe and healthy enviroment. Foster care is temporary care for children who are unable to remain in their own homes. Most children enter foster care because of abuse or neglect.

Resource parents play a central role in helping children in foster care reunify with their family of origin.

Resource parents play a central role in helping children in foster care reunify with their family of origin.

Resource parents are a key member of the child's permanency planning team. This team can consist of the child's social worker, birth family, and other caring adults. As the person who lives with the youth 24 hours a day, seven days a week, resource parents bring important perspectives and information to the child's care team.

Successful resource parents:

• Work with all members of the team
• Share information.
• Give and receive support.
• Ensure the child feels safe and is free from threats of harm or danger.

Resource parents can help in the reunification process in many ways. They should:

• Be a role model and mentor for the parents of origin.
• Support the child's relationship with their parents.
• Share information with the parents, such as health care and educational progress.
• Provide emotional support for the child as they prepare to return home.
• Be available to both the child and their parents after they return home.
• Include parents and other family members in important holidays, birthdays, or other special occasions.

There are many children and teens who can thrive in a home such as yours.

If you are interested in becoming a foster parent, we have the information and resources to help you get started. Visit our website and use our contact page for information to be sent to you directly.

https://www.buildingkidslives.org/programs/community/foster-care

or call 610-655-5555