Foster Care: First Steps

Explore your potential next steps towards Foster Care.

If you’re wondering if Foster Care is for you, even if you’re still unsure, Foster Care: First Steps is for you.

‘First Steps’ will help deepen your understanding of a faith-based and holistic approach to Foster Care and help you to consider your readiness to pursue it.

Foster Care: First Steps includes:

  • Introduction: A ministry of reconciliation
  • Understanding out-of-home care
  • The hardest and best thing
  • What to Expect
  • Trauma and attachment: An introduction
  • Things you can do to prepare
  • The need for community
  • Additional reading and resources

Foster Care: First Steps PDF Download

Download the Foster Care: First Steps material as a PDF resource.

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  • “A billion times a day”

  • Trust Based Relational Intervention® Caregiver Training (TBRI®)

  • How your church can care for carers: A practical guide

  • Out-of-Home Care & the Church

  • Creating ‘Wrap-around Teams’ for carers

  • Become a Homeward Advocate

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Help transform Out-of-home Care in your community.

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