‘Advocacy’ Articles
Advocacy: Taking Action to Make a Difference
To effectively get started in advocating for families, you need to find your focus. You may feel frustrated when you see the many ways systems fail to serve families, but your desire to want to fix everything can paralyze your efforts. To be effective, you need to identify the specific problem you want to try [...]
Allegations Happen: How to Prevent and Survive Them
“It’s the worst thing that’s ever happened to me,” said one parent about the time her foster daughter filed an abuse allegation against her. Most often false, allegations of abuse against parents who foster and adopt children with special needs are frighteningly common. When parenting these special children, it is in our best interest to [...]
Communicating through Letter Writing
With so many people involved in the lives of your foster children, documentation becomes very important. Download this article for useful tips on advocacy and the written word.
Comprehensive Health Assessment
The CARE Program provides a comprehensive health assessment for foster children if requested. Every child entering foster care is required to have two types of physical examinations:
It’s All in the Preparation: Preventing Allegations
Probably the single greatest traumatic incident for the good people who come forward to be foster or adoptive parents is to be accused of some form of child abuse. People who come forward to care for children usually view themselves as people who love children and only want to help and be of service to [...]
Legal Resource Manual for Foster Parents
This manual is also available to download at www.lapponline.org andwww.nfpainc.org. Or you can download it here in four parts.
Legal Right to Notification
Foster parents play a very important role as a team member meeting the needs of the child in their home. Because of the foster parents’ daily interactions with the child, they have the most complete information about the child. It is important for you, as the foster parent, to share that information with the other [...]
NEW LOCATION for Oahu’s Family Court
Effective Monday, March 29, 2010, Oahu’s Family Court will be operating out of the new Kapolei Courthouse. All hearings will be held there, not at the downtown Punchbowl Street facility!
Research on Caregivers’ Participation in Court
The primary purpose of this study, conducted in California, was to examine how training in the family court process affects cargivers’ knowledge and attitudes about participating in court hearings and the likelihood that they will participate. In addition, the study began to explore in a qualitative way what factors determine how information from caregivers is [...]
