Foster Parent Resources

This is a free service to help those who have opened their hearts and homes to children.

We welcome your suggestions and feedback about this site. Please send e-mail to mike@myklin.com

What is a Foster Family?

    You probably know several families who fall into this description even if they don't think of themselves this way. How many couples do you know who are raising children their partners had when they got married? Raising a child who is not your biological offspring is the simplest form of being a foster parent.

    In formal terms a foster family is one where the adults have taken training to be sure their skills are up to handling some of the problems a child may have. A home evaluation has been done to be sure that the child will be cared for in a clean and safe environment and that the parents have the resources to provide care. This doesn't mean you must be rich. On the contrary, most foster parents are just average people who work and pay their bills. You will get a small daily allowance check when you accept a foster child but no one expects to be able to quit working or to get rich being a foster parent.

    Are you wondering if you could be a foster parent.

• Do you enjoy children?

• Do you want to make a huge difference in someone's life?

    These are the two biggest reason's to make a home for a child that needs what you can offer. Open your heart today and you can change a life forever.

Foster Parenting Differences

    All foster parents must complete initial training and follow up with continuing education classes to maintain their certification. Therapeutic foster parents will also take a little more training to start. 

    Foster Parents have children placed with them by the Department of Human Services. Therapeutic Foster Parents work with private agencies to provide higher levels of care for smaller numbers of children. The private agencies accept children from the Department of Human Services and place them in therapeutic foster homes. These agencies arrange for the training of therapeutic foster parents. Usually, no more than two children will be in a therapeutic foster home.

    If you are already a foster parent or are interested in becoming a therapeutic foster parent we can put you in touch with an agency to answer your questions. I want some more information. I promise your private information will stay private and you won't get SPAM from us or them.

Training and Evaluation Sites

    These sites offer on-line training to keep your certification current. Some are free and some charge a small fee. If you know of one, please tell us and we'll add it to the list. Please check with your agency to be sure these programs will work for you. These should be usable by foster parents and therapeutic foster parents.

       http://www.fosterparentstest.com     http://www.fosterclub.com/training/index.cfm

    For your teenagers who need to do their "Independent Living Skills Assessment" - www.caseylifeskills.org 

Life Book Pages

   We've created some pages that your children can use for their life books each month. These are in PDF format so will print correctly no matter what computer system you are using.

   Each page will have questions for the child to answer; questions you can talk about with the child; a coloring spot, connect-the-dot, or maze for the child to complete. These are designed for the younger children but we'll have pages for the older ones here soon.

   Your suggestions for subject matter are welcomed as are your artwork and cartoons.

    Click on the title below to view the page or right-click on the title and then "save target as" to download for free. You will need the Adobe Acrobat Viewer to use these. If you don't already have this on your computer you can get it free from www.Adobe.com 

Assorted Themes

Ant    Apple    Backpack    Ball    Ballerina    Bat    Bunny    Butterfly    Carrots    Castle    Costume    Dracula    Eggs    Fireboy   

Firetruck    Frankenstein    Gator    Gator2    Girl    Gribbit    Haunted    MazeA    MazeB    MazeGhost    MazeHat    MazePumpkin   

MazeWitch    Pirate    Plane    Plane2    Pumpkin    Pumpkin2    Rabbit    Scarecrow    Spider    Spook    Sun    Toys    Train   

Trick    Truck    Well    Wind    Witch

Christian Themes

one    two    three    four    five    six    seven    eight    nine    ten

Cartoon Themes 

(each line is a group of related subjects)

one    two    three    four    five    six    seven    eight  

ten    eleven    twelve

twenty    twenty-one    twenty-two    twenty-three    twenty-four    twenty-five    twenty-six    twenty-seven    twenty-eight

Donation Area

    If this site has been helpful to you then please help support it with a small donation to defray the costs. Thank you.

May we suggest that a $3.00 - $5.00 amount would be appropriate depending on your usage.

    You can also help support this site by using our Custom Graphics Studio  or Electronic Publishing Services to make inexpensive and unique gifts for your families and friends.