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Foster parents play an essential role in supporting children and families during a difficult time in their life.

As a foster family, you may be asked to:

  • Provide temporary care, love, and nurturance to children while serving as a mentor to their parent. This could include actively helping the parent improve on their parenting abilities. The foster parent assists in helping the children transition home, to a legal guardianship, or adoption by another family, while keeping the child in contact with their kin, culture and community.
  • Serve as the legal guardian for children while maintaining the children’s contact to kin, culture, and community.
  • Adopt the children while maintaining the children’s contact to kin, culture and community.