Starter pack for foster carers
Book bundle
£31.85
£30.00
We know that starting out as a foster carer can be overwhelming at times. To help you feel confident in your role and in building relationships with the children and young people in your care, we have designed a bundle to support you in those early stages.
We are fostering
Birth children in foster families have to share their homes and parents with new arrivals who may come with varying problems and needs. A considerable period of adjustment as well as significant parental attention may be required to help foster children settle in to their new family. Birth children in this situation may well feel angry and resentful at having to share toys, space and their parents' love. We are fostering is a life story workbook which will help birth children to know themselves, their history and their role in the family. There is information about what fostering, adoption, and getting "approved" before having children to stay, mean. Working through this book will help prepare birth children to welcome new arrivals into their homes and lives. There is even a certificate of achievement at the end, awarded for completing the book 'and for all the help and support you have given to other children'.
Being a foster family: what it means and how it feels
A guide for young children
What exactly is fostering, and why are we doing it? Will the foster children be my brothers and sisters, and how many of them will there be? What if we don’t get on? These and other questions on what it’s like to become a foster family and what it means for a child are covered in this booklet for children and young people.
Where are my brothers and sisters?
A guide for young fostered and adopted children
This short, colourful booklet is part of CoramBAAF’s series of publications for children and young people, which aim to explain concepts in adoption and fostering that they may find difficult to understand. Where are my brothers and sisters and why are we not living together? Are they safe and being looked after? Do I have siblings I don’t know about? These and other questions that adopted and fostered children may have about their siblings, are covered in this booklet for children and young people.