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Specialized Foster Care
Joys and Benefits
- Giving a child a home and love.
- Being part of a treatment team of professionals advocating for the needs of a
child.
- Participating in monthly support meetings with other parents.
- Watching a child begin to laugh with joy in their heart as they heal emotionally,
physically, and spiritually.
- Receiving on-going training to assist you to be a professional parent.
- Opportunities for child advocacy and policy reform at the agency, community and state level.
- Medical and dental coverage for each foster child.
- Monthly stipend.
- Most of all the joy of knowing that you made a difference in a child's life. You
gave them hope when they had none.
Support for Professional Foster Parents
- You will have a case manager assigned to each foster child you have.
Case managers coordinate services, access community resources, advocate
for the needs of the foster children, provide on-going training to
families, accompany parents to meetings and appointments, and provide
emotional support to specialized foster parents as they work with
the foster children.
- Each case manager will make 2 or more visits with you and your child
per month.
- Each case manager will contact you by telephone at least one time
per week to discuss your child's progress and the family's needs.
- Hope For Kids provides 24/7 crisis management to assist with emergencies
within the home.
- Each child will have an individual service plan, behavioral modification
plan, and/or safety plans to be implemented in the foster home.
- Specialized foster parents will have on-going individualized training
on the needs, issues, and treatment strategies for dealing with their
child.
- To give you or your family a break from the demands of foster parenting,
foster parents can access agency respite care services as needed.
Compensation for Professional
Foster Parents
- You will receive a daily per diem of $31 for each child placed in your home.
- You will be reimbursed $0.35 per mile of travel over 25 miles when
you transport your child in your care.
- You will receive three $200 clothing allowances per year.
- All children have a medical assistance card, which will cover medical, dental, vision, and prescription needs.
- Foster children are eligible for free school lunches.
- Day care stipends may be available in some counties to assist with
childcare expenses. IF NOT, IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PROFESSIONAL
FOSTER PARENT TO MAKE ARRANGEMENT FOR AND COVER THE COST OF DAY CARE.
- You will be given $100 for summer camp activities for each child.
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