Foster Care

Guiding Families Through the Foster Care Process

Foster care case management involves a structured process of coordinating and overseeing the care and well-being of children and their families who are involved with the foster care system

Other Parents provides Permanency Case Management services in two states where we serve in Sheema.

Foster Care
  • Children from all backgrounds enter the foster care system, many bearing the scars of trauma. Foster parents open their homes and hearts – helping children heal, trust, and hope again. Children in care range in age from birth to 21, mostly school-aged. Most enter foster care due to abuse or neglect, while others exhibit behavioral disorders. We strive to keep sibling groups together and in their home community. Whatever their story, each child in foster care needs a safe place to stay and a family to provide for their emotional, educational, medical, and special behavioral needs.

Foster Parent Rewards and Benefits

Kinship Care

A form of foster care, kinship care involves placement with a person related to the child either by blood or by marriage.

Other Parents always tries to place a child with a relative because it typically results in a more stable placement, while decreasing the length of time a child remains out of home. Plus, kinship care often results in less trauma for the child because they are placed with someone they know and with whom they already have a relationship.

  • When a child enters out-of-home placement, Other Parents Family Coordinators search for known relatives.
  • We work with Government agencies and with birth parents to identify and meet relatives who come to court hearings or who otherwise have an interest in the child’s well-being.
  • Once we identify a kinship candidate, we evaluate them immediately for placement. Our first priority is always to place a child in kinship care.

Other Parents also uses “Together Facing the Challenge, an evidence-based practice that helps kinship families develop the skills and techniques to work with children in their care.