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Self Care Tips for Foster Parents Are you a foster parent in the trenches of foster care and feeling worn out? Use these self care tips for foster parents to keep yourself going strong and able to care for your foster child. Foster care is challenging for the entire family, especially the foster parents who are the daily…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month Child abuse can exist in multiple forms: sexual, emotional, and neglect. In the past year, it’s estimated 1 in 7 children have experienced child abuse or neglect in the past year. Of the cases, 78 percent included the parent as being involved in the substantiated abuse. In 2019,…
National Child Abuse Prevention Month began as a reaction to increased public awareness of child abuse throughout the 1970’s. As a result, Ronald Reagan declared April National Child Abuse Prevention month in 1983. The goal was to increase understanding of what contributes to the prevalence of child abuse and, more importantly, how to prevent it.
Foster children sometimes come from broken homes and tough circumstances. Thus, as a foster parent, it is vital to build your foster child’s self-worth. That way s/he can recover from those experiences to thrive in life. One thing you shouldn’t do is belittle him verbally. In fact, this will make him shut down and it…
Being in foster care is difficult for children. Even children with the most loving foster parents will face challenges. One of those challenges is the feeling that they are alone. Often, they don’t know many other foster kids at school. They may be embarrassed about being in foster care, and try to keep their situation…