Foster Care

How do you choose a foster care agency? Should you work with the county or a private agency? Learn more about the options available before you decide. You have made the decision to become a foster parent, but who should you get licensed through? Before adopting our daughter, my … [Read more...] about How to Choose a Foster Care Agency

Interested in becoming a licensed foster parent? Use these 8 steps to help guide you through the process. Becoming a foster parent is a huge decision.First of all, completing the paperwork, classes, and certifications is intense and takes a great deal of time.Secondly, your … [Read more...] about How to Become a Foster Parent

How can you prepare a room for foster care? Use these tips to help you get ready to welcome a foster child into your home. Before we adopted our daughter, my husband and I were foster parents to two amazing kids.To become foster parents, we had to go through classes and have … [Read more...] about How to Prepare a Bedroom for Foster Care

After we were diagnosed with infertility, my husband and I decided to become foster parents with the plan to adopt.  I kept reading about people fostering to adopt and seeing people on social media discuss fostering to adopt, so thought it would be a great way for us to grow our … [Read more...] about Why I Failed as a Foster Parent

Growing up, I always knew I wanted to foster or adopt. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true.When I told my mom that we were going to become foster parents, her response was "I knew that's what you would do. I am so excited!" And although it was probably the hardest thing I … [Read more...] about How Fostering Made Me a Better Parent