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Angela Berkley,
High School Student
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The foster parents helped me put her in the cage in the back of my station wagon and I drove slowly over the five minute ride back to the house.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Foster Parents Alternative paid carers such as foster parents who receive a salary for providing care to a person with a disability are not eligible for carer support.
Foster parents from culturally diverse backgrounds are recruited and receive intensive specialized training.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Foster parents must have a major role in determining training standards and choosing and monitoring quality training programs in each state.
Prospective foster parents are required to participate in a pre-service workshop designed to improve their effectiveness in meeting the special needs of youth in their care.
Foster parents are encouraged to participate as members of the case planning team, and must be notified of Service Plan Reviews.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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Foster parents offer day to day care and guidance until the child can be reunited with his or her birth family, move to a resource family or permanent adoptive home or emancipate.
Foster parents should mimic the parent role by wiping puppies and kittens with a warm, moist cloth after feeding to stimulate elimination.
Foster parents are especially needed for sibling groups of children from the same home, medically fragile children, teenagers, and minority children.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Foster parents and foster parent recruits and applicants have a right to an administrative review of the decision to not approve their application to be foster parents or to close the foster home.
Foster/adoptive parents of difficult or emotionally disturbed children are often subjected to community scrutiny and suspicion that biological families do not experience.
Foster parents receive financial reimbursement and health care for their foster children.
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