This book illuminates the unimaginable pain and loss a child experiences while in foster care. So many children bounce from home to home on their journeys--this book attempts to defy the myths about children in care and to inspire people to consider opening their hearts and home and come together as a community that care to STOP the BOUNCE.
This book illuminates the unimaginable pain and loss a child experiences while in foster care. So many children bounce from home to home on their journeys -- this book attempts to defy the myths about children in care and to inspire people to consider opening their hearts and home, and come together as a community that care to STOP the BOUNCE.
With all the social workers, lawyers and doctors involved in Staceys journey, Blaque Diamond releases, through Xlibris, the second in the series of childrens books A Temporary Home for Stacey. This book will open your eyes to the realities of life for every foster child to have one single, stable foster care placement. Diamond so bravely shares Staceys Journey and what it has offered to her and to others. Warm and suspenseful, this release has more successes and challenges and lesson-filled occurrences to share with foster parents, adoptive parents, and anyone wishing to parent.
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.
Home is safe, comforting, loving, and welcoming. At least, it is supposed to be. Follow the journey of one little girl as she gets shuffled through the foster care system. Her only desire is to live in a home with parents who will love and take care of her. Instead, she encounters an angry foster mother who imposes a sense of fear and dread and a man who sexually abuses her. During her teen years, she finds music, and in a way, it saves her. Then she wanders into a Baptist church in a Philadelphia suburb and finds true salvation. Many foster children age out of the system and enter the adult world while still carrying heavy burdens of guilt, fear, rejection, and regret. Many of them never find salvation in any sense of the word. If you are one of them, then this story is for you. And if you're a foster parent who is trying to understand the children you are caring for, you will find insight into what your children are thinking and feeling.
As a former foster child, I know how it feels to be alone, to feel lost, to feel hopeless, and to feel helpless. I also know you can make a difference in the life of a foster child. Ive been there. While my story is not unique, I want to share it in order to help the caring people of America walk in the shoes of a child who experiences physical, mental, and emotional abuse; is removed from everything she knows; is provided a roof over her head by the State and strangers; and then is thrust into adulthood totally unprepared but later succeeds. I want them to see, touch, and feel what the abused/foster child suffers and why they are who they are. I want them to see the major gaps in the childs life skills and social abilities and why they exist. We must walk in the childs shoes in order to understand them. Only then will we be able to truly fill the enormous amount of needs they have and feel confident in adopting, fostering, and working with foster children. We must fully understand the heart and life of a foster child before we can effectively foster, adopt, or work with this vulnerable population of extraordinary children. I invite you to walk with me, and learn how it truly feels to grow up as nobodys child. A little girl destined to failure, confined by abuse, and traumatized by foster care is inspired by faith to succeed.
An intimate, authoritative look at the foster care system that examines why it is failing the kids it is supposed to protect and what can be done to change it.
“Kids are important… They need safe places to live, and safe places to play.” For some kids, this means living with foster parents. In simple words and full-color illustrations, this book explains why some kids move to foster homes, what foster parents do, and ways kids might feel during foster care. Children often believe that they are in foster care because they are “bad.” This book makes it clear that the troubles in their lives are not their fault; the message throughout is one of hope and support. Includes resources and information for parents, foster parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers.
