"I am a former DSHS employee who taught foster parents, wrote curriculum, and worked with foster/adopt/relative placement families. I find myself now wearing the shoes of an adoptive parent of 9 and still required to meet the training requirements for foster care. I have taken just about ev...
Being a parent is a great gift and a privilege, but also a responsibility, as children's life chances depend heavily on the resources of the fam- ily into which they are born [2]. Parenthood power- fully affects the human capacity for patience. Bauer and Chytilova (2013) found that ...
giving them a chance to kind of voice what they desire, their desired outcome.” An experience like this was memorable to a non-relative licensed foster-parent caring for a teenager:
and fit to culture within child welfare supporting the overall goals. On the surface, the content of this curriculum seems similar to materials often found in child welfare pre-service trainings for resource parents, but in reality, it fills a tremendous gap in training resources available to fo...