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The training that is currently offered throughout the nation is very inadequate as preparation for foster parenting. A logical comparison; training by simply reading a book to be a mechanic, book knowledge does not a mechanic make. Just as sitting in a classroom for a few days does not a parent make?
If you are fortunate to have raised your own children successfully, then you are going to have the advantage of experience behind you, however without that experience you are in danger. (Read our article called “Empty Nester’s Vulnerable”). The kind of danger that we speak of is a real and present danger to every foster parent across the country, the storm called allegations.
- If you have attended/are attending one these trainings think about these questions;
1. Did/does your trainer talk about allegations?
2. Did you or are you learning learn how to document properly, or even hear the words documentation or journaling?
3. Did someone in the audience ask a question about one of these subjects? What was the reaction?
- You see subject listed above that are vital to your survival as a foster parent and the safety of your family, yet was/has it been (being) covered? Why not?
- Is the trainer really looking out for those that they are training, or just supplying more foster homes for the children in the Foster Care System to be placed in? Whom are they serving? Where do they obtain the funds for these trainings?
Foster Parents Association have usually applied for/and/or receive grant monies to enable them to cover the cost of the free trainings that you have/are/or will attend (ing).
Your Foster Families Examiner has a theory, please allow me to explain; You see, we believe that you deserve to have the entire picture in front of you prior attempting to put the pieces together. It is futile to spend the time and funds to train a foster parent who will, after the first placement experience, or after an allegation is filed, as well as the realization of what the lack of preparation in documentation has resulted in, they leave the Foster Care System anyway.
- Here is the Theory; We believe that if we educate you, with reality and truth, not only about the hurricane that will visit you and your family, teach you how to best prepare for that storm called allegations there will still be good people wanting to be foster parents. nfpcar.org
Comments
This is excellent information for EVERYBODY who deals with kids to know.
Whether you are a foster or a biological parent, this info is Mission Critical.
Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights Association
www.familyrights.us
"Until Every Child Comes Home"©
"The Voice of America's Families"©
Leonard; Thank you once again for your comments. What do you think of our theory that is mentioned in the article? I just don't get why the Foster Parents Associations aren't truthful with the foster parents they are training? Better prepared for a hurricane, rather than being caught in the middle of one. Would the trainers like to find themselves in that situation?
What do you think Leonard? Appreciate your thoughts on this.
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