February 1, 2023
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...
January 15, 2023
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...
January 1, 2023
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,...
December 15, 2022
Your Foster Child’s Legal Rights
In the State of Pennsylvania, foster care children are legally guaranteed certain rights according to the 2010 Children in Foster Care Act. Like the United States Bill of Rights, this legislation is...
December 1, 2022
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...
November 15, 2022
4 Tips For Fostering Teens
Fostering a teenager can be a downright scary endeavor. For one thing, it can be much more difficult to manage and bond with an unfamiliar teenager than with an unfamiliar child of a younger age....
November 1, 2022
Busting 3 Adoption Myths
There are a wide range of opinions about adoption floating around out there, but you shouldn’t let any misconceptions keep you from growing your family, especially if adoption is one of your only...
October 15, 2022
Five Common Myths About Foster Parenting
Have you considered becoming a foster parent in PA but been turned off to the idea by commonly held misconceptions? Many potential foster parents come across the foster system’s myths and horror...
October 1, 2022
Preparing A Bedroom For Your Foster Child
When you choose to become a foster parent through Family Care For Children & Youth, your case manager will provide the support and training you need. Our goal is to teach our foster families our...









