Foster Familiar


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These kittens have a lot to say… Fostering a litter of kittens can be a rewarding yet chaotic challenge. But when those kittens have a paranormal secret that needs to be kept hidden, well, that opens a whole new can of cat food. Destined to be familiars for witches, these kittens can talk. But before they can join the rest of the cats at the cat café where I work, it’s my duty to teach them the rules to keep them safe. So when we discover their vet dead at the animal hospital with proof that she knows more about the kittens than she should, I do the unthinkable. I steal evidence. I can’t let that proof get into the wrong hands. But the killer knows what I have, and they want it. I don’t know who to trust, but one thing is certain. If I can’t crack this case, not only is the safety of my fosters at stake but so is the truth about familiars—and witches—everywhere.




Foster the Family


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There are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent's day--hurting children, struggling biological parents, and a broken system--are only compounded by the many burdens of a foster parent's heart--confusion, anxiety, heartache, anger, and fear. With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, easy-to-read chapters, you'll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God's Word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.




Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel


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Foster parents face a unique set of circumstances and experience a wide array of emotions that few can relate to. Their journey is one of equal parts beauty and brokenness, joy and heartache, excitement and exhaustion. There is no textbook on how to be a foster parent, no formula, no simple three-step guide. But there is hope-in God's capacity to bring great beauty out of tragic brokenness. This is the gospel-the lens through which you can filter your foster parenting journey and ultimately find the strength, motivation, and courage you need to be sustained along the way. ReFraming Foster Care is a collection of reflections on the foster parenting journey designed to help you do just that-find hope-and to remind you that your work is worth it and you are not alone. This multi-faceted book can be read alone or used as a group support resource. Every chapter includes: Personal reflection questions Group discussion guides Plan of action exercises Real-life stories Inspirational quotes Whether your foster parenting journey has just begun or you've been on the road for quite some time, we pray this book can encourage, challenge, and inspire you along the way. For bulk orders of 10 or more books, visit www.reframingfostercare.com. Discounts apply.




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Foster Care


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In Foster Care: How to Fix This Corrupted System, author Janet Solander presents stories of how Child Protective Services (CPS), Department of Family Services (DFS), and the foster system have failed the very children they are mandated to protect and hold safe. Solander shares heartbreaking incidents taken from the daily news as well as her own firsthand experiences as a foster parent. Only through public awareness is there any chance that the children in the system have any hope of being protected the way they should be. Every child has the right to a safe and secure home, but foster children sometimes find that being in the system brings them to a worse place than the home from which they were taken. Only through public involvement pressuring lawmakers to correct the shortcomings in the system will the innocent victims, the children, have the chance the system promises them. Foster Care explains what is happening with these children and what we can do to help correct this dire situation. When foster parents and children gain a stronger voice to advocate for them, only then will the system be able to take care of those who are most vulnerable.




Social Work and Foster Care


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Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.




Hearings


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Helping Foster Children in School


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Foster children rarely receive the education they deserve and can struggle with behavior and academic performance. This book is full of positive strategies to help foster parents, educators and social workers to support them more effectively.




Foster's Choice


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Foster is a college junior trying to make sense of his life, his goals, his parents, his friends, and his fraternity brothers. He has a philosophy of better living through chemistry and choosing the path of least resistance. His college is a shelter for the twenty-something crowd who are happy to have their parents, social media, and an aversion to responsibility guide their lives. Foster's best friend is Spence, a business major and fraternity brother who is constantly trying to keep Foster out of trouble. Dave is the only openly gay member of the fraternity and he wants Foster to join him out of the closet. Daniel is Foster's brother and he's become a born-again Christian. When he goes home to take a break from school and try to reconnect with his family and old high school friends he realizes his problems follow him where ever he goes. This is a long short story/novella (approx 36,000 words). It contains graphic language, but no graphic sex.




How Does Foster Care Work?


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How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. Each chapter offers new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. This book is important reading for anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students.