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The North Dakota Department of Human Services and partner agencies recognize National Foster Care Month in May 2021.Â
This yearâs campaign for National Foster Care Months puts the focus on how foster care can and should be a way to strengthen families, how important it is for youth and their families to have access to high-quality legal representation and cultivate a positive partnership with the legal and judicial community, and how critical it is for children and youth to establish and maintain meaningful connections in foster care.Â
Read the full story in your Wednesday, May 19th Times-Record. Purchase a paper copy at the TR office (146 3rd St NE, Valley City), local gas stations and grocery stores or buy an electronic copy by clicking subscribe in the top left corner of the www.times-online.com homepage.
By Jenifer Jarriel
This is a pivotal moment for the thousands of Texas children who are in the foster care system. Our state is grappling with seemingly insurmountable challenges ranging from a shortage of placements for certain children to the need for additional funding – leading to headlines across the state highlighting the number of kids who are sleeping in state office buildings.
Nobody wants children who have already endured profound disruptions in their lives to be sleeping in state office buildings. Ensuring that the right homes are available for the right child at the right time, however, is complex. The trauma that children have experienced often leads to behaviors that require specialized services services that not just any child-care professional or well-meaning family can provide.
How to Support Kids in Foster Care Without Being a Foster Parent
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On any given day, there are more than 400,000 kids in the U.S. foster care system. Some of those kids are in the system for days or weeks, while others spend months or years bouncing from home to home to home and every single one of them has experienced trauma.
May is National Foster Care Month, which means it’s the perfect time to show kids in care that they are seen. But how do you do that, short of becoming a foster parent or a social worker yourself? The people who work with and care for kids in foster care play a critical role, but these kids need more than one or two adults in their corner they need a whole village.