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05/29/07

Therapeutic or Treatment Foster Care

Posted by : Lanette in Foster Care Blog at 11:21 pm , 347 words, 606 views
Categories: Basics, Types of Foster Care, Therapeutic or Treatment

This is type of foster care that I am licensed in so I do have more knowledge in this area. In this type of foster care, you will be working with medically fragile and emotionally disturbed children. These children probably are not the best fit with parents that do not have parenting experience. Most therapeutic foster care agencies wants a parent that has experience working or parenting trouble teens, emotionally disturbed children or very difficult children. Therapeutic fostering is also called treatment fostering by different people.

These are not children that have experienced some abuse. Most of these children have lived with severe abuse and some have lived this way for years. They have some much anger, rage, or hatred that is too overwhelming for them to deal with. You may see more behaviors that are more intense and frequent.

These children are not easy or for the faint at heart. I do believe that there are parents that could do therapeutic foster care and be successful for them and the children. I also know that a lot of parents and even other foster parents believe that these children just need love and understanding. That is pie in the sky not the reality.

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Therapeutic children may have lived with, experienced or was involved with drugs (selling, using or helping parents to use), violence towards children, adults or animals, self harming, sexually abuse (some can also become predators of other children), prostituting (themselves or seeing the moms do it), porn, drinking alcohol, trouble with the police, etc.

Being a therapeutic foster home does not mean that you cannot provide foster care for basic or respite. Please check with your state; things do differ from state to state. I am not saying these children do not improve or learn to live somewhat normally in a family setting after a long period of work.

Please read what therapeutic children are faced with before coming into care and more truths about this type of foster care.

Related articles at adoption.com:

Separate the Kid from the Behavior

Pornography and Sexual Irresponsibility

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Comment from: sosad [Member]

Hi, my son ran away for the first time some time ago. I immediately called a behavioral services agency that had seen him before for help in understanding what was wrong or rather bothering him because he had never run away from home. He was assigned a case manager who eventually assigned him through community support services a mentor and eventually she assigned him a therapeutic foster home. My concern with this picture is that this case manager assigned her brother as a mentor to my son unknowingly to me and my husband or my attorney of their relationship and then assigned their parents as my son's foster parents again, unknowingly to me and my husband and my attorney or even Lenoir County DSS for that matter! To top it all off - these four individuals: the case manager, the mentor, the foster parents all live in the same home together that my son was assigned to!?!? THIS IS TOTAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST. MY SON HAD NO OUTSIDE OUTLET THAT HE WOULD FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH IF HE HAD CONCERNS OR NEEDS. IF THE FOSTER DAD WAS MOLESTING HIM COULD HE GO TO HIS MENTOR? IF THE MENTOR WAS MOLESTING HIM COULD HE GO TO HIS CASE MANAGER? HE WAKES UP WITH ALL OF THEM. I HAVE FILED COMPLAINTS AGAINST ALL PARTIES AWARE OF THIS MATTER AND HAVE GOTTEN NO SATISFYING RESPONSE: LENOIR CO. DSS, CAMBRIDGE BEHAVIORAL SERVICES OF GREENVILLE, NC, AND NEW HORIZONS FOSTER CARE AGENCY OF GREENVILLE, NC. I HAVE CONSIDERED GOING TO THE NEWS MEDIA. HOW CAN THIS HOME BE THERAPEUTIC FOR MY SON AND THE OTHER BOYS IN THE HOME? MY SON IS WILLING TO TALK TO ANY INTERESTED PERSONS SEEKING TO HELP THESE YOUNG MEN IN THIS HOME GET TRUE HELP AND GUIDANCE. MY SON DIDN'T GET ANY.

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