Product Description

More than half a million children today live in out-of-home care, and many have special problems. The need for well-trained, loving foster parents has never been greater. With this book, Girls and Boys Town offers these committed people the professional tools they need to not only care for foster children but to actually help them get better.

New or experienced foster parents as well as grandparents and other relatives caring for a child forced from home by a crisis will find help and hope in this book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #269186 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 309 pages

Review
"A valuable tool for parents of foster children or those interested in improving the foster care system." -- Youth Today Magazine

About the Author
The editors have years of experience in Girls and Boys Town's Foster Family Services and other youth care programs.

Customer Reviews

A "foster parent friendly" guide
Collaboratively compiled and edited by Lana Temple-Plotz, Ted P. Stricklett, Christena B. Baker, and Michael N. Sterba, Practical Tools For Foster Parents: Foster Care Solutions is a straightforward and "foster parent friendly" guide to creating a safe environment, building a positive relationship with a foster child, working with the foster child's parents (even when they are uncooperative or hostile), teaching a foster child decision-making skills, how to handling transitions, and much, much more. Practical Tools Forfoster Parents is very highly recommended reading for anyone looking into the challenges and rewards of foster care.

AWESOME!!!!!!
This book is a really good tool for anyone doing or thinking about doing this kind of work. Good practical information.