The Importance of Trauma-Informed Care for Your Foster Child
Trauma-informed care is essential in foster parenting, as it addresses the emotional and psychological impacts of past traumas on your foster child. This compassionate approach involves: 1. Recognizing the root causes of challenging behaviors, 2....
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What Does Permanence Mean in Foster Care?
Permanence in foster care means establishing stable, long-term living arrangements that provide a foster child with love, safety, and security. The primary goal for permanency is reunification, where children return to their biological families...
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How to Keep Your Foster Home Clean With Multiple Children
Foster parents looking to maintain a cleaner home while caring for multiple children can benefit from a family-wide cleaning schedule. By assigning age-appropriate chores, setting reasonable and consistent expectations, using a reward system, and...
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Help Your Foster Child Embrace the New Year With These Fun...
The new year always presents an opportunity to embrace new beginnings, fresh starts, changes in mindset, and other positive things that inspire transformations or healthier ways to approach life. As a foster parent, you understand how crucial it...
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GCC Celebrates 10 Years of Serving Foster Families!
Now is the time to hang up stockings, decorate Christmas trees, wrap presents, and welcome in the joy of the season. While we’re all getting ready to celebrate the holidays this December, everyone here at Generational Child Care has something...
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How to Navigate the Holidays in Your Foster Home
The late fall and winter season is a time for joining in on festivities, attending celebrations, honoring old traditions, creating new traditions, and, of course, making memories that last. If you are a foster parent, you may already know that the...
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