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Child Care Options for Foster Parents, Relative Caregivers and Legal Guardians P. Title IV-E Foster Parent Child Care Program The Foster Parent Child Care. Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon. Standards for Certification of Foster Parents. In providing relative or foster care to a child or young.
Every year, thousands of New Hampshire families struggle with issues that bring them to the attention of the Division for Children, Youth and Families (DCYF). Parents may lack the skills or resources they need to care for their children appropriately and to keep them safe from harm; they may be struggling with substance abuse, physical illness, or mental health issues; or they may be parenting the only way they know how.
About Foster Care
Other variables that may lead to child abuse or neglect can include the loss of employment, inappropriate relationships, lack of affordable housing and/or incarceration. Please see the for in-depth information on caring for relatives in New Hampshire. Foster Care is one option when DCYF is involved and seeks to find a safe alternative home to provide for day-today care, nurturing, supervision, and parenting for a child. By law, the State of New Hampshire must make efforts to identify and notify all adult relatives of a child within 30 days of a child going into placement. If a family relative is not available or not appropriate, the child may be placed in a licensed foster home.
When a grandparent or other relative is identified as an appropriate caretaker for a child in State custody, he or she can become licensed by DCYF to provide foster care for the child. While this is not a requirement, it is strongly recommended that they become a licensed relative foster home as they may receive additional financial assistance as well as additional support services. There are many benefits to being involved with DCYF. The child’s parents can get services to help them reunify with their children. Children can get services they need, such as counseling or health care. Relative caregivers may be eligible to receive services to help care for the child, such as transportation and respite care. To become a licensed foster home, relative providers must required by all licensed foster parents.
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There are more than 1,000 youth in foster care right here in Santa Clara County. They are in need of caring homes where they can grow and thrive.
When a child is unable to remain with their birth family, we know that the next best thing is a loving and stable foster home. Being in a family setting provides foster youth with the support critical to their emotional and social development. It also helps them do better in school, as foster youth are often forced to change schools with every new placement. Foster youth need caring adults in their lives to help them build self-confidence and learn about healthy relationships.
Bill Wilson Center is a licensed foster care agency serving Santa Clara County. We connect foster youth to stable, caring, foster homes. Foster homes are intended to provide short or long term care while the child prepares for permanency, which means either their return to appropriate, stable birth family members, placement into an adoptive family, or adoption by the foster family. It’s very rare that a new foster family comes to us without any reservations about fostering a child. There are often a lot of questions about the process and concerns about how each child has fared due to the difficult circumstances causing them to be placed in the foster care system. These are all things we are happy to discuss with any interested parties in a one-on-one setting, or at one of our monthly no-obligation informational meetings, which are held on the first Thursday of the month at our San Jose office. You can truly make a life-changing difference in the life of a child by opening your home and your heart to a foster child.
Oregon Relative Foster Care
Contact our Foster Care Coordinator at (408) 278-2596 or with any questions or to arrange a no-obligation informational meeting.