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FOSTER CARE PROGRAM |
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Love in your Heart?
Room in your home?
Be a Foster Parent!
Foster and Adoptive
Parents Needed!
There are many school age children who need temporary or
permanent families. Foster parents provide a temporary family
for children until they can be reunited with their families.
Adoptive parents provide permanent families for children who do
not have families of their own. At this time there is a
great need for Foster and Adoptive families in our area.
We have many children who are in need of Adoptive families and
we frequently receive referrals to place children temporarily in
foster family homes. If you have an interest in helping to
provide for children in our community, please e-mail OFS or call Pam Bejnar, at Oakland Family Services 248-858-7766, ext. 236. |
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FOSTER CARE PROGRAM OVERVIEW & PHILOSOPHY
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OFS believes that foster care is a service to our most vulnerable children and placement of
children in qualified foster homes is our highest goal. The agency believes
that children have a right to a family, therefore, foster parents are a
substitute family for a while, until problem situations are resolved. The
agency believes that foster parents are key members of an interdisciplinary
team which works in harmony to meet the needs of children.
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THE MISSION OF OFS" FOSTER CARE
PROGRAM IS:
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To provide a transitional home for children who are in need of care due to a
disruption in their family life.
- To develop a partnership with
foster parents in assisting children and their families to
reaching their highest potential.
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To provide foster homes which are safe, stable, consistent and nurturing.
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To provide quality ongoing training for foster parents with the goal of
developing superior and well rounded parenting skills.
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BEING A FOSTER PARENT:
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Is both a responsibility and an opportunity. Foster parenting is looked upon
as a high form of community service and can be one of the most gratifying
personal experiences of your life.
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WHO ARE THE CHILDREN?
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- Children from birth to 18 years
of age, some are brothers and sisters, teenage mothers, and
from all cultural backgrounds.
- Children who enter foster care
due to family breakdown, illness, neglect and/or abuse.
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WHO MAY APPLY TO BE A FOSTER PARENT?
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- Any person at least 18 years or
older who:
- Has a safe and stable home
environment
- Understands the needs of
children and can provide love
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ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:
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Can I help a child understand why he/she cannot live at home?
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Can I accept the fact that a foster child will eventually leave my home?
- Can I work with the child's treatment team?
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Can I contribute to the effort to return a child home?
- Can my own children accept other children in our home?
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HOW DO I FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THIS
PROGRAM?
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If you can answer yes to the previous
questions and your heart belongs to children, please give us a call at
(248) 858-7766 and ask for the Foster Care Department!
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