Does anyone have any information they can give me about fostering a child and or adoption?
If anyone knows or has done it and can give me some advice on the steps, where to start ect.
That would be very helpful.
Any and all information will help.
Thank you so much
Another option for helping children & families is Safe Families for Children. It started up in Chicago & is a faith-based organization geared towards helping children & families in crisis.
Here's their website: http://safe-families.org/
Call your county offices and ask or believe it or not, Child Protective Services can steer you toward the correct agency. Adoption and fostering is advertised on the San Diego morning news all the time, showing interviews with children hoping for a 'forever' family and home.
The posters have given you good information on how to go about fostering.
The agenc(ies) will go over the requirements and the background checks that will be required.
Things have changed since we adopted our son through the children's agency in Arizona but we started as a foster to adopt. They placed our son in our custody and there was a three month acquaintance period to see if there was something medically, emotionally with the child and whether you (as perspective parents) could not cope with said results.
Good luck to you. Our son is now 43.
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Looks like all the info is right here:
https://www.illinois.gov/dcfs/lovinghomes/fostercare/Page...
Your local DCYF can help assist you in this process..
Good luck! ❤️☺️
To do foster care you need to contact your local state child welfare office and ask them to send you information.
Please know, this is IMPORTANT...a foster parent is NOT in the job of fostering to get a housefull of children that they will adopt.
The goal of a foster parent is to be part of the team that helps that family get back together in a stronger healthier way. It isn't very often that foster kids are adopted out.
Foster parents are temporary caregivers for these children. The state CAN and WILL show you at your door and say "I'm here to pick up XXX, they are going to a different foster home" right then, right now, you can't do or say anything. They aren't your children.
It is heart wrenching to hear some adult say that the kids are going back to their home and they don't want them to, that they wanted to adopt them, crying their eyes out. That's why I am pointing out, in BIG letters, that foster parents are not these children's family or parents. They are temporary child caregivers that will glady help that parent learn better skills and work within the state system to provide transportation to visitation, go to court with the family, and so much more.
You become a part of the team that is working to get those kids back home with their birth parents. Not to keep them away so you or someone else can adopt them.
Plus if a family member objects even up to the last minute before the papers are signed they can't let you adopt those children. They have to follow through with that request and if they find that family member to be even moderately okay they are very nearly obligated to leave them in a family members family and let them adopt them.
If you are looking to foster so you can adopt you need to be specific about that so that the state worker will know this is your plan and they might not send you any foster kids that are not up for adoption.
To adopt through the state system you often have to have these kids in your home for at least 6 months so they can see if they fit in, to see how the child reacts to being put up for adoption, to see how your family outside of your home react and accept this child.
They can STILL come in and remove this child at any time. They are the legal authority that manages that child until that child is back with it's family or it's up for adoption or they move them around.
Take the classes, go through the whole program. THEN decide if foster parenting is for you. You can't get attached. You'll get heart broken. But do be open to a more permanent placement and adoption if it comes up.
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