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Foster Parenting
Foster parents play a crucial role in ensuring the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in their care. Many sections of the Child Welfare Information Gateway website offer resources and statistics to help child welfare administrators, supervisors, caseworkers, foster parents, and prospective foster parents improve outcomes for children in foster care. The following pages highlight those sections.
Information Gateway Resources
For child welfare administrators and supervisors
Effective ways to recruit and retain foster parents and Child and Family Services Review information to assist you in improving outcomes.
For child welfare caseworkers and professionals
Tools and resources to assist you in assessing foster parents' needs, engaging foster parents in case planning, and providing them with supportive services.
For foster parents and prospective foster parents
Information about becoming a foster parent, tools to help you get involved in case planning for your foster child, and training resources.
Child welfare/foster care statistics
State and national data on the number of children in the child welfare system, trends in foster care caseloads, and well-being outcomes.
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Selected Resources
 National Foster Care Month
May is National Foster Care Month—a time to make a lasting difference in a child's life. There are 510,000 American children and youth in foster care. No matter how much time you have to give, you can do something positive that will "change a lifetime" for a young person in foster care. Find more information on how you can help on the National Foster Care Month website.
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Focuses on increasing the capacity and resources of State, Tribal, and other publicly supported child welfare agencies to promote practices that support the safety, permanency, and well-being of children while meeting the needs of their families.
AdoptUsKids
Finds and supports foster and adoptive families for waiting children by providing new and enhanced recruitment tools and training and technical assistance to States and Tribes.
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