Foster Parenting Options

The Foster Care Programs at Hands Across The Water, are committed to actively recruiting foster parents who are able to foster children served by this agency.

HATW follows a non-discrimination practice and does not establish screening criteria based on race, creed, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender orientation, gender expression, or national origin. We work with those who are single, and both married and partnered couples.

Our Foster Care Programs focus on recruiting foster families who have training, experiences or special skills which will enable them to parent children in these categories, or are willing and able to aquire such experience or training.  Training is free.

Our Foster Care Programs offer services to children of all religions, races, cultures and ethnic backgrounds and their families. Children placed in the Foster Care Programs range in age from 0 to 18 and will focus on placing children who have been removed from their families of origin by order of the court because of neglect or abuse or other family problems. Efforts to keep siblings together if determined to be in the best interest of the children will be a priority. Often these children become available for adoption.

Typical behaviors exhibited by the children in the Foster Care Program will range from behaviors typical of a child of the same developmental stage, to severe behavioral needs associated with the child’s history of abuse and/or neglect as well physical, cognitive and developmental delays and mental health diagnoses. The number of foster homes recruited will relate directly to the number of children coming into care and needing placement.

Contact our office for more information. Check out this blog site for more info on Foster Parenting.

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