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Understanding The Foster Care System: A Comprehensive Guide For New Foster Parents
The Profile Isn’t the Person Fostering has a humanizing side and a dehumanizing side, and they show up in the same inbox. The humanizing part barely needs saying: you want to jump in for every child who needs help. The dehumanizing part is harder to admit — you get an email with a photo and…
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The Heartbreak and Hope of Our First Foster Placement
Our very first experience as foster parents started with an emergency phone call. COVID hair was a real thing. “Hey, we have two kids who need an immediate home,” our Foster Agency Supervisor told us. “They may need a permanent home, we don’t know. We just know that they need somewhere to go.” Shane and…