The Lives Of Foster Carers

Author : Linda Nutt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134246014

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The Lives of Foster Carers by Linda Nutt Pdf

The Lives of Foster Carers analyzes the contradictions, conflicts, and ambiguities experienced by foster carers arising from the inter-penetrations of public bureaucracy and private family life. Topics covered include: social policy pertinent to childcare the history of foster care service available literature on the experience of foster carers public versus private domains in foster care motivations and roles of foster carers how foster carers perceive themselves and their foster children. Based on a wide range of literature and in-depth interviews with forty-six foster carers, this book provides a valuable insight into the concerns, processes and experiences of foster carers in the UK. Jargon free and accessible, it will appeal to foster carers, practitioners, students and academics in social care, youth work and childcare as well as policy makers in children’s services.

Author : Cris Beam
Publisher : HMH
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780547999531

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To the End of June by Cris Beam Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book that “casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system” (NPR’s On Point). Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family. Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system—the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents, the terrifying push out of foster care and into adulthood. Humanizing and challenging a broken system, To the End of June offers a tribute to resiliency and hope for real change. “A triumph of narrative reporting and storytelling.” —The New York Times “[A] powerful . . . and refreshing read.” —Chicago Tribune “A sharp critique of foster-care policies and a searching exploration of the meaning of family.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Heart-rending and tentatively hopeful.” —Salon

Author : Emma Ward,Gillian Schofield
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857004891

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Understanding and Working with Parents of Children in Long-Term Foster Care by Emma Ward,Gillian Schofield Pdf

For children growing up in foster care, the role of their birth parents is an important factor in the success of their long-term placements. Understanding the experiences of parents is therefore essential in order to develop effective social work practice with parents that can also ensure the best possible outcomes for children. Drawing on detailed and often moving interviews with parents, the book takes a chronological approach, starting with their accounts of family life before their children were taken into care, in particular the impact of drugs, alcohol and domestic violence. It goes on to explore their experiences of court and then how they seek to come to terms with their loss, sustain an identity as a parent and manage a relationship with their children through contact. Parents' views on what they find valuable and helpful in relationships with foster carers and social workers are also discussed. The book then draws on the views of social workers on the opportunities and challenges of supporting parents, while also remaining child-focussed. The authors set out a model of good practice, based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of these parents and social workers. This book will be essential reading for all child and family social workers, fostering social workers, independent reviewing officers, academics and foster carers.

Author : Alyson Rees,Andrew Pithouse
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857008657

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Creating Stable Foster Placements by Alyson Rees,Andrew Pithouse Pdf

Andy Pithouse and Alyson Rees use original research to identify key ingredients needed to help create successful foster placements and help prevent placement breakdown. In this study the lives and activities of 10 foster families who provide lasting and effective care are examined. The families' everyday world of meanings, negotiations, activities, settings, rituals and relationships that help to create these successful placements, are explored. The authors identify the main components that, according to the carers and the children, contribute to acceptance, belonging and stability in the family. The book examines the emotional and practical work involved in caring, and explores how it is received and reciprocated by fostered young people. With important insights into child and carer perspectives on fostering, What Works in Foster Care is a source of invaluable information for foster carers, children's service professionals, and trainees and care staff more generally who may be engaged with children who are looked after.

Author : Gertrude Shotte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1524682381

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Putting You in the Picture by Gertrude Shotte Pdf

Foster carers, also called foster parents, invest invaluable time and energy in providing a safe home environment for foster children. Fostering is frothed with challenges of various kinds. Yet, generally, foster carers affirm that fostering is a most rewarding work. ?Putting You in the Picture?: Foster Carers Speak, is a small-scale research project that provides readers with insight into the foster-care experience, as seen from selected foster carers? perspectives. It highlights inspiring experiences of how foster carers are able to make positive, life-changing differences to foster children's lives. The book also reports on participant foster carers? views on the ?Staying Put? initiative and makes practical suggestions to social workers and Local Authority (LA) officials. These two groups, as well as teachers, head teachers, foster-care professionals and concerned citizens will find this book quite informative. It is clear from all the ?research conversations? undertaken, that fostering is a demanding work of selflessness and love.

Author : Maggie Hartley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781409180319

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Too Scared To Cry by Maggie Hartley Pdf

A heartbreaking and inspiring collection of true fostering stories perfect for fans of Cathy Glass and Rosie Lewis. Contains previously published stories Too Scared To Cry, The Girl No One Wanted and A Family For Christmas - brought together in this heartwarming and inspiring collection for the first time. ***** Maggie Hartley is one of the UK's most prolific foster mothers. This inspiring collection includes three heartbreaking, true short stories about the children who have passed through Maggie's care. TOO SCARED TO CRY When Ben and Damien arrive on Maggie's doorstep, the two toddlers are too scared to speak. More disturbingly still, their baby half-brother Noah is completely unresponsive - he doesn't smile or play or crawl. The three siblings have been conditioned to be seen and not heard, and it's up to Maggie to unpick what has caused this terrible void. THE GIRL NO ONE WANTED Eleven-year-old Leanne is out of control. With over forty placements in her short life, no local foster carers are willing to take in this angry and damaged little girl. Maggie is Leanne's only hope, and her last chance. If this placement fails, Leanne will be put in a secure unit. Where most others would simply walk away, Maggie refuses to give up on the little girl who's never known love. A FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS A tragic accident leaves the life of toddler Edward changed forever and his family wracked with guilt. Maggie must help this family grieve for the son they've lost and learn to love the little boy he is now. But will Edward have a family to go home to at Christmas? These heartwarming and inspiring short stories show the power of a foster mother's love, and her determination to help the children who come into her care. Note: These stories have previously been published as individual ebooks. True stories of foster care and adoption and one foster mother's attempts to help the children in her care heal from abuse, neglect and trauma.

Author : Fiona Daly,Robbie Gilligan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Foster home care
ISBN : 1902230272

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Lives in Foster Care by Fiona Daly,Robbie Gilligan Pdf

Author : Angela Hart
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781509896684

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The Girl With Two Lives Free Sampler by Angela Hart Pdf

The Girl With Two Lives can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialized eBook-only parts. This is part 1 of 3. Author Angela Hart is an experienced foster carer; The Girl With Two Lives is the moving story of her experience fostering one little girl with a heavy burden to carry. Twelve year old Danielle has been excluded from a special school and her former foster family can no longer cope. She arrives as an emergency placement at the home of foster carer Angela, who soon suspects that there is more to the young girl's disruptive behaviour than meets the eye. Can Angela's specialist training unlock the horrors of Danielle's past and help her start a brave new life? The Girl With Two Lives is the fourth book from well loved foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Angela Hart. Another true story from the experienced and bestselling foster carer – sharing the tale of one of the many children she has fostered over the years. A story of the difference that quiet care, a watchful eye and sympathetic ear can make to those children whose upbringing has been less fortunate than others.

Author : Adrian Hawkes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532091704

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I Was a Foster Carer by Adrian Hawkes Pdf

As a social worker and foster carer, I am inspired sometimes and frustrated often. In this book Adrian skilfully challenges statutory and voluntary complexities asking us to consider a simple question "does this work for this child?" For those that have considered fostering or have fostered, for those that have dedicated themselves to improving outcomes for vulnerable children....... there is no quick fix or even a 'right way' but just wonky wheels that need reinventing. Here Adrian skilfully challenges statutory and voluntary complexities but through it all inspires all of us to question "are we listening to the child & each other and is this working?" Blair Mortimer Bsc Social Work. Statuary social worker. Adrian is a believer in God and in people. His real-life stories from fostering are told in a raw and honest way. At a time when more foster homes are needed than ever before there are surely many who will be inspired by his humour and vulnerability to dare to start the journey into fostering for themselves. Both joys and challenges will lie ahead but Adrian has shown that there are many who will one day look back at their lives and thank God for precious memories of the little things you did, and said, and quite simply the fact that you were there - for them. Stuart Lindsell BA Theology. Social Pedagogue Trainer for Foster Care.

Author : Ann Wheal,Meral Mehmet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Foster children
ISBN : 1905541775

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The Foster Carer's Handbook by Ann Wheal,Meral Mehmet Pdf

Acclaimed across three previous editions, this handbook covers British practice aspects of foster care for care providers of children up to 11 years old, including children with special needs. Primarily for foster carers, but also useful in residential care, the book is packed with detailed guidance about looking after children, being looked after, being a foster carer, and living in a fostering household. It is designed to: encourage carer providers to work in partnership with the children and their families * enable children to return to their families when appropriate * enable carer providers to meet the full range of a child's needs * explain the fostering roles and responsibilities. Although there are differences in detail, the governments of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland all make similar requirements of carers. The Foster Carer's Handbook will help all carer providers achieve the expectations placed on them and assist them to maintain standards. This fourth edition underlines and encourages the use of relevant government standards and gives examples of good practice. A comprehensive guide that can be called on when just about anything arises, the book has been developed for carer providers to read themselves along with the children they are caring for as well as their own children; to help carers make appropriate decisions and answer the many questions children may ask about their time 'being looked after'; for use as a 'talking tool, ' including activities to help children understand the present, face the future with confidence, and, in time, make their own decisions about their life; for use in supervision and training

Author : Andrew Fitz-Gibbon,Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351383219

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Nurturing Strangers by Andrew Fitz-Gibbon,Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Pdf

Nurturing Strangers focuses on loving nonviolent re-parenting of children in foster care. This book is a jargon-free mix of narrative and real-life case studies, together with the theory and practice of nonviolence. Nurturing Strangers and the authors’ previous book, Welcoming Strangers, are the first books to apply philosophies of nonviolence directly to the care of children in the foster care system. One of their strengths is that the books are not merely theoretical, but rooted in the practice of nonviolence with children for over thirty years. Nurturing Strangers is for foster carers, caseworkers, case managers, social work students, and parents, as well as the general reader interested in children who have been victims of violence in and out of the foster care system.

Author : Mike Thomas,Terry Philpot
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1846426871

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Fostering a Child's Recovery by Mike Thomas,Terry Philpot Pdf

The overwhelming majority of children and young people in care today are fostered, but for some this only increases their problems through untreated trauma, ill-judged placements, poorly supported foster carers and multiple moves. This practical and evidence-based book outlines the principles of family placement on the basis of planning and evidence, and explores the qualities, skills and insights that create positive placement outcomes. Fostering a Child's Recovery shows how the key to good fostering is well-trained and skilled foster carers who form part of a team of professionals who surround the child. This book will benefit all professionals and parents involved in providing recovery for traumatized children and young people in ensuring successful placements.

Author : Elizabeth Fernandez,Richard Barth
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0857003895

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How Does Foster Care Work? by Elizabeth Fernandez,Richard Barth Pdf

How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. Each chapter offers new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. This book is important reading for anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students.

Author : Judith A.M. Denton
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781786236432

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Foster Care and Me by Judith A.M. Denton Pdf

Please let me introduce you to Judith AM Denton. Placed in Foster Care at the age of 9, growing up through the system, Judith experienced exclusions from School and College, a run in with the Law, and then as a Care Leaver, she experienced a period of poor Mental Health. But thankfully her story doesn't end there.... In this real-life narrative, Judith openly details the challenges faced and overcome, at every stage of her journey through and out of the Foster Care System. You'll also find 'Messages' she has penned to inspire hope to Children In Care and Care Leavers, along with 'Messages' to Foster Carers, Social Workers, School Staff and our Government, a call to action, to make the urgent changes she believes is needed to help improve the outcomes and life chances of our Looked After Community. Now the Founder and CEO of The Transformed You, providing Intervention and Support Mentoring Programmes to improve their outcomes and life chances of Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers, aged 11 – 25 who have behaviour, emotional and social difficulties, Judith is also a sought-after Keynote Speaker at Social Care Conferences and a member of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham's Fostering Panel, positioned to help make sure our Children and Young People in Care get the best of Care, and as you read you will be inspired to see and believe that Change Is Possible!

Author : Helen Cosis Brown
Publisher : Learning Matters
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446297698

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Social Work and Foster Care by Helen Cosis Brown Pdf

Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.