Foster Care
As an adult involved in foster care, you have a big job: rebuilding family structures and children’s sense of safety and personal stability.
Foster Care
You can help children in crisis cope with their separation from birth parents, their placement in foster care, introduction to their foster or custodial parents, lots of moves, and, possibly, reunions.
As an adult involved in foster care, you have an enormous job: building and rebuilding family structures and children’s sense of safety.
Calm Down and Slow it Down
Big changes or difficult situations can leave children feeling agitated, drained, or scared.
The Feeling Basket
A story about “finding a place” for big feelings.
Belonging: A Place for You
It can take some time to feel at home in a new place. Children (and adults) will need to be patient and persistent.
Guest Post: The Power of Routines
While routines are important for everyone, for children in foster care, predictability holds even greater value.
You Belong
A personalize-able poem page reminding children that they belong.
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The World Sings to You
A song about listening.
Talking About It
Suggested answers to children’s most difficult questions about foster care.
Foster Care Resources
Resource sheet for providers and parents working within the foster system.
Heart Pocket
Here’s an activity to remind children that they do not lose their memories when they’re separated from those they love—they carry their memories in their hearts.
Challenges & Strategies
Reflect on a moment or a period from your childhood when you went through a challenging transition (if you’re with a group, you might share with others).
The Creature Connection
How the human-animal bond can help heal.
Artmaker: Draw It Out! Foster Care
Digital, open-ended drawing activities to help children with expressing feelings.
Slow It Down
It’s time to relax, and Elmo, Cookie Monster, and Abby Cadabby guide you in these exercises to help calm children experiencing overwhelm with big feelings.
Adult-Child Coloring Page: I Hear You!
You can communicate important ideas to children without saying a word.
Discover more resources for parents, caregivers, and providers.
Calming Strategies
Little ones need lots of help from caring adults to grow and thrive. We offer calming strategies on comforting and providing nurturing touch, all of which are required for healthy brain development!
Traumatic Experiences
Caring grown-ups can help lessen the effects of trauma and show children they’re not alone.
Children’s Feelings
When you help children to understand and express their emotions, you help them grow and thrive.
