Fostering Families: Resource Families and Birth Parents

Families come in all shapes and sizes. Some children live with foster parents while their birth parents work to reunite the family. This month PFSA observes Foster Care Month and celebrates all kinds of families.

PFSA’s publication, “Fostering Families” offers tips for both resource (foster) parents and birth (biological) parents on how they can work together to help a child in out-of-home placement.
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Resource parents can do a lot to help birth parents, if the proceed with respect and concern. These questions will help foster parents assess their willingness to help birth parents improve their parenting skills.
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Interactions between birth parents and resource parents can be improved by using some simple skills and techniques. Here are a few to try. (Link to document called “Specific skills useful….”)
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Pennsylvania State Resource Families Association provides help and support to foster parents across the state. Visit their website. Link to http://www.psrfa.org/