Foster agencies can help make this extraordinary holiday season less stressful for foster parents and children. Your local foster agencies work all year long to provide training and support. Our services are even more important during the holidays, when many families are dealing with new challenges and mixed emotions. There’s plenty of room for holiday … Read moreHow Foster Agencies Can Help Make Your Holidays Less Stressful
When you go through the foster care training, you will learn a great deal of important information about becoming a foster parent. This information will help to prepare you to bring home your first foster child and allow you to be a successful foster parent. Here are three important things that you will learn in … Read more3 Important Things That You Will Learn In Foster Care Training
In order to foster a child, you’ll have to work with a foster agency who will look into your background and make sure that you have the resources to foster a child. This doesn’t only refer to financial resources but also other types of resources. For example, do you have the time to look after … Read moreMaking a List of Pros and Cons to Share with Your Foster Agency
Staying calm is a top priority for foster care parents. Your foster child will pick up on your mood and copy your behavior. When you deal with pressure constructively, you’re teaching them important life skills, and helping them to feel secure and happy during difficult times. On the other hand, no one is saying that … Read moreA Foster Care Parent’s Guide to Staying Calm
Becoming a foster parent in Kansas is a big decision and one that has the potential to change your life for the better. You learn so much when you go through the process of fostering and these skills and lessons will help you to grow as a person. Here are 3 important ways that becoming … Read more3 Ways Becoming A Foster Parent Will Change Your Life For The Better
There’s never been any surplus of foster parents, and now the need for family foster care in Kansas is growing in the wake of COVID-19. If you’ve been thinking about how you can help children who need a home, this may be an ideal time to find out more about the process. How is COVID-19 … Read moreGrowing Need for Family Foster Care In Kansas
The statistics are heartbreaking. In Kansas, over 7,600 children are in out-of-home care. But the state has just 2,000 foster homes. Nebraska has 3,000 foster homes for about 4,000 children. The shortage of fosters means many of the children who can’t stay with their parents have to be placed far from home. In one swift … Read moreNine Requirements for Becoming a Foster Parent
Are you ready to become a foster parent? Although the process can be exciting, it might also lead into anxiety. Yes, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping a child who needs your help. But at the same time, your family will have to get used to having a foster child and vice … Read moreHelping Out a Grieving Child in Foster Care
When a child is placed in foster care and sent to your home, they’re going to have to adjust. And so are you. It’s going to be a process of understanding and compromising all through. You may not be able to get off to the kind of start that you wanted, but you have to … Read moreFoster Care: Compromise vs. Discipline
How do you make your foster home welcoming for the child? This is a question that many foster parents ask themselves, especially if this is their first time fostering a child. If you haven’t had a child in your home before, you may have some questions with regard to privacy, curfews, toys, clothes, computer access, … Read more3 Practical Tips to Keep Your Foster Home Functioning Smoothly