Foster parenting is not for the faint of heart! The goal in foster care is ALWAYS reunification with birthfamily, if at all possible. And sometimes it isn’t easy. Supporting reunification can be difficult, especially given some situations of dysfunctional, unstable families on the brink of collapse. But what if your home is much more stable? […]
As a trauma mama to a traumatized child, I can sometimes feel so overwhelmed and hopeless when experiencing the secondary trauma from my child’s past. {Have you joined our private Facebook community?} At our new church home in the Texas Hill Country, I joined a women’s Bible study based on The Warrior Mom Handbook. For the […]
Our job is to follow Christ and leave the rewarding to him. But our job is also not to disbelieve or minimize what he said about rewards.
It was tucking-in-bed time. He’d been quiet, withdrawn, and I could tell why. My son is an older foster child, whom we are in the process of adopting. At 5 years of age, my foster son entered the system. He came to us at age 7. He is now 8. Not to say his life […]
When you first become a foster parent and become involved in the foster care industry, there are a number of acronyms you need to know to keep from getting confused by the alphabet soup. If you are part of my private Facebook group for foster parents, you will be seeing many of these acronyms in […]
Accepting a new foster placement is a big decision. This list of key questions to ask the caseworker before welcoming a foster child will guide you as...
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Creating a mental health recovery plan can empower families to support one another during challenging times. By addressing mental wellness as a collective effort, families can foster an environment that emphasizes hope, strength, and solidarity. This guide aims to provide a comprehensive resource for crafting a mental health recovery plan tailored to your family’s unique […]
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Creating a Family strengthens foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating expert-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training, including the 7 core issues in adoption & foster care.
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Creating a Family, the national adoption, and foster care education & support nonprofit, provides trauma-information & expert-based resources on domestic infant adoption, foster care adoption, international adoption, fostering/foster parent resources, embryo donation/adoption, attachment, transracial adoption, and adoptive parenting, and parenting children who have experienced trauma.
After deciding whether or not to foster or adopt, our agency is bound to pass along a batch of paperwork the likes of which can only be c...
Learn how to adopt a child in the U.S. foster system. Get answers to common questions about adopting from foster care.
Creating a Family strengthens foster, adoptive, and kinship families and the professionals who support them by creating expert-based, trauma-informed resources, community support, and training.
The child that was not adopted will grow up without the love and guidance of parents, without the security and identity of family, and always feeling like the last kid picked for dodgeball. The child that was not adopted has little hope. Depending on his or her country, he or she may have had little ...
