Foster Care Home Study | Our Home Study Experience
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Let's talk about the foster care home study! My husband, Caleb, and I are becoming licensed foster parents, and I wanted to share our home study experience. Our goal is to foster to adopt, so our process was very similar to an adoption home study, as well. I talked a little bit about our home study preparation and questions that come about when getting ready for fostering. I can't wait to be a foster mom and hope that sharing my foster care experience is helpful to other people out there who want to foster or adopt!
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One question that definitely needs to be asked and considered before placement is where do you stand if an accusation (false) is made against you or your husband by the young person. Friends of ours have had this occur and the Agency left them to sink and they are financially wiped out defending themselves. Document everything. Make sure you know where everyone is in your family at any given time. Foster care is a wonderful thing but be cautious and protect yourselves.
Yes, super important to be vigilant and cautious.
We are foster parents and we’ve adopted 3x. The process is long but SO worth it. Just remember on the days that are challenging that this is your families opportunity to litterly be the hands of feet of Jesus.
Yes! Thank you for the encouragement!
Crystal Young So well stated! 😍
I hope you are approved soon. There are so many children that need loving and stable families!
Thank you ❤️
What is one thing that has surprised you about the foster care process? Thank you for sharing your journey. Your family is an inspiration ❤️
I'm newly fostering in the Salt Lake area. I just did a CZcams search for foster care and you came up. It was a happy surprise to learn you are in the same area.
We are also on the cusp of being licensed! One difference for us is that most of our meetings took place at our agency and the last meeting takes place in our home (we had a prescreening meeting in our home as well) this was unexpected because most of our research showed that all meetings took place in our home. But this was so our worker didn't have to travel for each meeting/family. Otherwise, our experience has been just as smooth! Transparency has been crucial!!!
Hi, Jess! I'm very new to the whole foster/ adoption process. My husband and I are inclined to adopt, but it is my understanding that we will still need the home study. Thank you so much for sharing your experience!
Rebecca Jalilov yes you will defiantly need a home study
Very informative. You are like I am on wanting everything perfect.
So informative! Don't think you were rambling at all. This is great! My husband and I are thinking of fostering to adopt in the future. It's always been something we've wanted to do but adoption is expensive and we would love to foster in the future.
I'm glad you are making progress and getting close to being licensed. The kids need people like you and Caleb. Have you read Girl Wash Your Face? She has a chapter or two about this topic and I think you'll find it interesting. Glad you guys are doing well!
Thank you, Patricia.
I'm not going to be a foster parent but find this type video so interesting!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Pls come back to this channel and do some more videos on foster care. We are in the process right now to get our license, so nervous. Mary
Hi dear thank for wonderful video. Would you please tell us what are the things that we might disqualified for fastering kids by the way we are just finished the first 5 session and we both not very good in English I would 30 percent to 35 percent in English and we are in Canada. Thanks👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏💙💚💜
Thank you so much for sharing!
Some friends of ours just adopted a little girl that they've had since she was an infant, and she is 4 now. It was quite a long road, with lots of difficulties to overcome but it was so worth it. :)
That’s wonderful. ♥️ I know this journey won’t be easy, but it’ll be worth it.
Question..did they ask you for utility bills, bank statements etc?
Lissette Mustafa They ask for that?
Yes they do. They will look at your monthly bills and make sure you have paid them all on time for the past year or so
@@rachaelstevens8075 Not only that, they look to see how much money you make, and how much money you spend...your spending habits, bills, etc. You are going to be taking care of a child or multiple children, you have to be able to afford to do so without monetary assistance. You have to have a pretty decent income to be able to be a foster parent or even adopt...yes they look at your money situation pretty close whether you are fostering or adopting. But, you can go have your own kids and be dead broke and its perfectly fine.
We are at the beginning of our journey. If someone sees this, what behaviors should you expect? Will we go over this in training, like the trauma training?
Do you have to kid proof everything if you intend to foster teens?
Yes. As stupid as it may seem. The home study is a general study, they don't care what age kids will be in the home.
"Giving a child back"...what do you think this is Walmart LOL. I agree, I'd hate to take in a child and have to send them somewhere else because of their behavior or something they do that the case worker decides not to share...and its quite frequent that they seem to love to leave out things that you need to know LOL. I think a lot of times they're struggling to get these kids placed in a home, so they tend to try and hide things hoping for the best HAHA!!! The problem is sometimes those things if they're known up front could save the frustration and the let downs for that child so they get placed in the right home the first time rather than being tossed between homes because of behavioral issues that weren't shared in the beginning.
I plan on being a foster parent for older children....yep seems the worst ones to have, at least from the age standpoint with learned behaviors over time that are let go. This is part of the problem with the system, some of that stuff could be fixed if the foster parents were allowed to do the parent part of the foster parent role. A lot of these kids are stressed beyond belief, no matter what they try and tell you, they are scared, they are stressed, they just want to go home, back to their families not be in strange homes with strangers, and strange rules, and no love and care. This is why most people want babies or very little kids, they're much easier to manipulate into what the foster family wants them to be, where being a foster parent to an older child its harder because the child typically has already fallen into several not so good behaviors through their life of let downs, taken from their home, moved from home to home, different rules, no love, not being or feeling wanted, the list goes on.
I have mentored and taken care of a lot of kids over the years, some good, some bad, some ok, its a very tough role, but the kids need it when they're parents aren't there for support during the day and sometimes during the night....getting them up in the morning, to school, to sports, getting them home after school, dinner, chores, homework, bedtime, been there done that, for the most part it wasn't all that bad, but when they're not your kids you have a huge limit on what you can do as far as comforting them, caring for them, etc. There's a lot of lines you don't want to even get close to, and foster care is the same way...there are just lines you cannot cross and its just best to not even get close to them....its hard to love and care for and show a child they're wanted when your hands are pretty much tied behind you thanks to a broken system that doesn't understand how a foster family needs to work in order to show these kids they are wanted, needed, and loved....you are basically just there to take notes for the next person that comes along that they get sent off to...not there to help them, just there to provide the shelter rather than them being in a group institution.
How much were the home studies?
What questions did she ask Kennedy?
Lets Play A Game I want to know aswell 🤔
So when the social worker spoke to your daughter, was it in front of you or was it in private? I have a 7 year old son and I would want to be there to see the type of questions being asked.
Depends on the age of the child I think, usually they do it in private if the child is old enough to understand what is going on, at 7 I'd be inclined to think the parents would need to be present, just like if they're questioned by the police I would think.
Hello!!! I just emailed you a question 🙂
How long have you went through your experience?
Where I'm at they said it takes 3-6 months to fully complete the licensing process, and there's also out of pocket expenses you need to be prepared for as well, getting your home ready, even if you have children, they don't care, your home has to be 100% child proof, fire/smoke alarms, as well as carbon monoxide detectors, fire extinguishers, etc.
Do they ask about if you went to therapy?
Yes in my experience
May I ask what state you live in?
Texas!
We just started the process of fostering in Texas, I would love to get more information from you.
You are just beating around the bush... You raised a point and then failed to provide specific details. You need to be very specific and provide specific details from your experience. When the social worker inspected your house, what exactly did she look for? What feedback did you get from him/her on how to address any safety concerns? I didn't hear anything concrete from you and your experience. Everything you shared is very vague and it didn't help people much on how to better prepare for the home study. Be precise and straight to the point. You don't need 15 minutes to speak and then provide a few sentences that are meaningful. Don't let people unwind all the junks to just get to a few points that are meaningful. Thank you for sharing...
They all do the same thing, each and every one of these types of videos never really answers the questions that many people who want to do this actually have...and one of the biggest reasons people don't do the foster or adoption process...they have no clue how to go about doing it, and how to prepare, etc.
Mostly because every state, and sometimes different counties or towns/cities have different rules from a neighboring state, or community...that's how screwed up the system is, its not a across the board type system, so many loop holes, so many differences, its hard to really answer them all because of the rules and regulations differences.
I like the idea of your videos...BUT, you need to stop rambling. I can’t even watch one to the end. Be more concise and your videos would be great.
Haha! I'm definitely a wordy person. ;) Have a great day!