Foster Care Parents Needed in Anoka County

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Foster Care Parents Needed in Anoka County

            Anoka County needs foster care parents for children in the community. Foster families provide homes for children whose families are unable to care for them.

Foster parents are asked to take someone else’s child or children into their home, care for them, and treat those children as members of their family. Foster care families can also work with the children’s biological parents to help build their future. Children may continue to visit their biological families until they can be reunited. Types of foster care include:

• Family foster care: Treated as family members, these children and teens receive full-time care, either short or long-term.
• Kinship foster care: Relatives, family friends, and those with a significant relationship may be licensed to provide care.
• Respite care: Respite care provides a break for birth parents or foster parents from caring for children on a scheduled basis.
• Concurrent/pre-adoption foster care: Foster parents assist and support reunification with the child or children’s birth family while committing to provide a permanent home for the child or children if they cannot return to the parents or other appropriate family.

“Making the decision to become a foster parent is extremely important, those who make this choice often positively impact both the children they foster and their biological parents,” said District 7 Commissioner Mandy Meisner, who serves as lead commissioner of the Human Services Committee of the Whole. “The need is great in Anoka County, and I commend those persons who are opening their hearts and their homes to the children in our community.”

Foster care orientation provides those interested with an opportunity to learn more about the children in foster care, the licensing process, foster care policies, and the responsibilities of being a foster parent. To learn more about becoming a licensed child foster care provider, visit www.anokacountymn.gov/foster.

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