PENNSYLVANIA FOSTER CARE BLOG
Activities To Build A Stronger Bond Between You And Your Foster Child
When you bring a foster child into your home, you hope to bring love and laughter into their lives. Depending on where your foster child was before they reach your home, they can come with their own set of hangups and baggage. However, bonding with your foster child is both rewarding and beneficial for you…
Tips For Preparing Your Home For Fostering A Child
Bringing a new child into your home is an exciting experience. Fostering a child provides a safe and loving environment for a child who might otherwise have no place to go. When you are getting ready for the arrival of your foster child, you will probably experience some nerves along with your excitement. One way…
How To Improve Communication With Your Foster Child
Fostering a child is a beautiful experience. Being there for a kid during a rocky part of their life is filled with rewards. If you are looking to foster to adopt in Pennsylvania, talk to our team. We always welcome new foster parents into our community. Our goal is to place children into safe, loving…
Why You Should Foster A Teenager
It’s no secret that teenagers are often difficult to place with a foster parent within the foster care system because many families expect to be fostering children, which most imagine as no older than twelve years old. Unfortunately, that means many foster parents miss out on the experience of fostering teenagers, which presents certain challenges,…
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Fostering
Are you considering becoming a foster parent, but you’re not quite sure if it really is the path for you? We understand your hesitation, and although Pennsylvania is always in need of more fantastic foster families, fostering is not necessarily the right fit for everyone. Providing a stable and loving home for a child in…
My Friend is a Foster Parent
If you don’t foster children yourself, it can sometimes be difficult to know how to interact with foster children and even their foster families. Maybe you once loved to visit your brother’s house, spending the evenings unwinding with family, but now he has invited a new child into his home, and you’re nervous about what…
The Biggest Myths About Adopting an Older Child
According to the website AdoptUSKids.org, there are more than 400,000 children in the United States in the foster system. About 1/4 of them are available for adoption. The average age of these children is 8, and the older they get the slimmer the chance is that they will be adopted. That’s because some potential families…
3 Ways to Help When You Can’t Be a Full-Time Foster Parent
Sometimes, our hearts have bigger ideas than our calendars can handle. Foster care requires a significant time commitment, but not everyone who wants to help has room in their schedules. Work, family, and friends all need time, too, and sometimes that doesn’t leave room for being a foster parent. If you want to help the…
How Will Fostering Affect Your Family?
If you have children of your own already, you might feel hesitant about becoming a foster parent. One of the first questions a couple asks when they are considering becoming foster parents is “How will this affect my family?” The truth is, it will. Becoming a part of something like this is bound to impact…
The Legal Rights of Foster Parents
In our previous blog post, we looked at some of the legal rights guaranteed to children within the foster care system. As important as it is for you to understand those rights as a foster parent, it is equally as important for you to understand your own legal rights. The State of Pennsylvania follows the…