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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 524563" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>Lisa - </p><p>Friends of ours were fosters for years and years. And they only took two kinds of cases... but because they were willing to take those kinds of cases, they were never asked to do the others.</p><p>1) Children from stable but remote homes, who need access to "services". Either developmentally or medically special needs. (your nursing training helps on this one!) You get the same kid back on a scheduled basis. For example, if the kid needs a couple years of interventions, the kid would live with you, but return to the parents for all the school breaks. A kid who needs cancer treatment for 6 weeks every 4 months... that kind of thing. </p><p>2) Children who are "permanent wards of the state" but not available for adoption - there is no option for the original family to take them back. Usually, these are very young (pre-school to Gr 3, but not babies usually), and have issues/challenges/dxes. Our friends did not take Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) kids, for example - "not their specialty" - but they did take Downs and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These are long-term placements, often until adulthood if possible. You become essentially a "paid parent".</p><p>3) Adoption-ready newborns - this doesn't happen as often now, with more open and partial-open adoptions. But... in these cases, the baby goes to foster for 30-60 days, so that the relinquishment paperwork can be finalized and the time-limits for appeal expire. Then you hand off to the adoptive parents.</p><p></p><p>(Ok, so I can't count. The first 2 is what they did for the last 15 years... before that, they did 1 & 3)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 524563, member: 11791"] Lisa - Friends of ours were fosters for years and years. And they only took two kinds of cases... but because they were willing to take those kinds of cases, they were never asked to do the others. 1) Children from stable but remote homes, who need access to "services". Either developmentally or medically special needs. (your nursing training helps on this one!) You get the same kid back on a scheduled basis. For example, if the kid needs a couple years of interventions, the kid would live with you, but return to the parents for all the school breaks. A kid who needs cancer treatment for 6 weeks every 4 months... that kind of thing. 2) Children who are "permanent wards of the state" but not available for adoption - there is no option for the original family to take them back. Usually, these are very young (pre-school to Gr 3, but not babies usually), and have issues/challenges/dxes. Our friends did not take Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) kids, for example - "not their specialty" - but they did take Downs and Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). These are long-term placements, often until adulthood if possible. You become essentially a "paid parent". 3) Adoption-ready newborns - this doesn't happen as often now, with more open and partial-open adoptions. But... in these cases, the baby goes to foster for 30-60 days, so that the relinquishment paperwork can be finalized and the time-limits for appeal expire. Then you hand off to the adoptive parents. (Ok, so I can't count. The first 2 is what they did for the last 15 years... before that, they did 1 & 3) [/QUOTE]
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