Welcome to fostercarer.com.au
07/01/2008 16:19 Filed in: general | EssentialMum
Welcome to fostercarer.com.au. For more information about us and why this site exists, please go to the About Us page. But we'll provide a short version here.....
We've been involved in foster care, as a family, for 40 years. Vastly different circumstances, different outcomes, and different experiences. But we've learned a great deal.
Agencies are called on to place children in a caring and safe environment where their family is unable to provide for them, and act as a conduit between government, the children and their families and foster carers. Agencies carry a lot of responsibility and are given a lot of authority. They can either be outstanding in their understanding and support, or add to the foster carer’s burden. We’ve experienced both ends of the scale. We believe that understanding carers’ experience and sharing that constructively with all parties - to enhance the quality of those interactions - can be of benefit to all concerned.
So how will this work? We want to share and so will do that through this site. There is opportunity for you to share as well, either through comments or feedback. We'd love to hear from you.
Posted by EssentialMum
We've been involved in foster care, as a family, for 40 years. Vastly different circumstances, different outcomes, and different experiences. But we've learned a great deal.
We believe there is a useful conversation to be had between carers and carers, and carers and agencies, independently of the children in your care. Over time those conversations may well extend to all aspects of being a foster carer. Many of those conversations happen in person. We think there is an opportunity in this networked world to carry out some of them online.
Agencies are called on to place children in a caring and safe environment where their family is unable to provide for them, and act as a conduit between government, the children and their families and foster carers. Agencies carry a lot of responsibility and are given a lot of authority. They can either be outstanding in their understanding and support, or add to the foster carer’s burden. We’ve experienced both ends of the scale. We believe that understanding carers’ experience and sharing that constructively with all parties - to enhance the quality of those interactions - can be of benefit to all concerned.
So how will this work? We want to share and so will do that through this site. There is opportunity for you to share as well, either through comments or feedback. We'd love to hear from you.
Posted by EssentialMum
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