Regular Family Foster Home
Regular family foster homes provide temporary care for children who have a range of parenting needs, from basic to highly skilled. Ideally, placement into a regular foster home is time limited, during which time the case manager provides services to the birth parents in an effort to resolve the problems that resulted in the child coming into placement. If the situation allows, it is sometimes recommended that foster parents share their child-rearing and homemaking skills with the birth parents.
Some children may require long-term foster care because they are unable to return to their own homes and because freeing them for adoption may not be the best plan. The foster parents, the county department and the child, if possible, must agree upon plans for long- term foster care. The birth parent is involved also, when appropriate. This is a formalized written agreement.
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