How To Help Children Successfully Return Back Home

From the first day of out-of-home placement, the goal is to reunify babies and young children with their parents or permanent caregivers. And for that reason, parents or permanent caregivers, extended family members, foster parents, representatives of the legal system and other direct service professionals, become part of a network of support wrapped around each […]

Caring for Textured Hair

Learn How to Treat Different Types of Hair and Skin of Kids in Foster Care You know the feeling you get when the phone rings and a worker from your agency says they have a child they’d like you to consider taking into your home? Your heart starts to beat a little faster as you […]

Dressed in Dignity

Leigh Esau’s Foster Care Closet Provides New Clothes and Other Essentials to Children Entering Foster CareJason and Cindy Nabb of Lincoln, Nebraska, were sitting around the dinner table with their six children when the call came through: two sisters, ages 3 years and 3 months, would be at their house in 45 minutes. The year […]

Guiding the Goodbye: How to Support Children When their Foster Siblings Reunify

It was time to say goodbye to a beautiful baby who had been part of our family for almost six months. I was happy. The efforts of everyone on her team — most of all her father — had paid off, and they were reuniting. I was heartbroken. My brain knew she wasn’t my child, […]