Dealing with emotions as a foster parent is one of the most difficult challenges we face. This article from Medium provides a few tips on dealing with Emotion regulation: “Emotion regulation means practicing something known as impulse control,” says Kris Lee, Ed.D., a professor at Northeastern University, behavioural science expert and author of Mentalligence: A […]
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One Foster Girl’s Story Every morning at 7 a.m., Ariana Diller* begins her two-hour journey to school. However, it’s not the anticipation of a test or build-up of homework that occupies her mind on the way there. It’s the apprehension of returning home. Diller is a part of the foster care system and faces struggles […]
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Get Your Church On-board to serve families in crisis Because state welfare agencies do not get involved if children are not experiencing blatant abuse or neglect, Safe Families serves a supplemental role for children who might not qualify for foster care, but whose parents think they could use help. Part of its mission is to […]
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Learn More about Foster Care BY: DAN CHIAPPETTA As Julie Andrews would advise, let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start! Most folks have an idea already about this topic, but I think it’s an important starting point to define and explain what foster care is and what it looks like […]
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In Monday night’s College Football Playoffs between Louisiana State University and Clemson University, all eyes were on the game, but during halftime, the focus switched to a Chick-Fil-A commercial that featured a local family and staff from the West Market Street location. Kristin and Jason Trivett began fostering a little boy named Kyle in March […]
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Arizona Needs You The most recent semi-annual report issued by the Arizona Department of Child Safety indicated that there were 14,205 Arizona children in out of home care on June 30, 2019. After consistent declines from a peak of 19,000 children in 2014, this report reflected an increase of 3% from December 2018 numbers. While […]
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“I appreciate being adopted even more today as a parent then I did when I was a child,” Anthony Herring said. “I’m forever grateful for the life I was given. She and Dad have both taught me that family isn’t determined by blood, it’s who you have in your life to love.” Linda Herring always […]
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Neglected and abused children are lingering in Massachusetts foster care for an average of nearly two years, and many who have reunited with family return to the system at a rate above the national median, according to a new report that underscores the challenges still hobbling the state’s child […] The Department of Children and […]
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An Editorial: For all of the recent reporting about challenges in the Kansas foster care system — and make no mistake, there are gigantic ones — we should take a moment as this year begins to acknowledge those who step up to be foster parents. So many children in the system come from difficult and […]
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CHARLESTON — Drug overdose deaths are decreasing and work is ongoing to reunite children in the foster care system with their families, but lawmakers and state health officials say more will be done to curb substance abuse and the further growth of the foster care system in 2020. Members of the media heard from a […]
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