Helping Extended Families Care for their Kin
The Children’s Home & Aid Relative Foster Care program provides services to children who are placed in foster care with maternal or paternal relatives. These children have a wide range of needs. The program works with the biological family to assess the reasons why the child came into care, and provides services to address the acute needs including expenses, day-to-day caregiving, schooling, tutoring, housing, and family conflict resolution. The family also receives supportive services and the goal is to establish and achieve a permanency plan for the child.
Support Services Available to All Foster Families
Support services are important for the foster family in order to ensure a successful placement.
Support services include:
- Frequent meetings with the case worker
- Monthly financial assistance paid to the foster parent to help cover the cost of the child’s food, clothing and personal allowance
- All necessary medical care paid by the state
- An individualized plan for the foster child every six months
- Training and support groups for the foster family
- Services to help the foster child adjust to new surroundings
- Respite care to give foster parents some time off from their foster care responsibilities (specialized foster care)
- Comprehensive mental health services for the child
- Educational Advocacy
For additional foster parent resources, select from the following:
- Caregiver Support and Training 2021
- Training Catalog 2021
- Foster Parent Rights and Responsibilities
- Foster Parent Statement of Confidentiality
- Foster Parent Grievance Procedure
- Foster Parent Law Implementation Plan (FPLIP)
- Plan de Implementación de la Ley de Padre de Crianza
- Foster Parent Law Implementation Plan Annual Report
- Foster Care Communication Guide
Children’s Home & Aid recognizes, respects, promotes and celebrates the value of cultural diversity and will ensure that each client’s ethnic or cultural customs, practices, and beliefs, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, disability, and/or community differences will be respected by agency staff.
