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Caring for a child on a short term basis, until the child can return home, is placed with a relative, or another permanent arrangement is made. Resource Parenting is a commitment to helping a child through a difficult period.
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Resource Parents provide the basic necessities for children to include, but not limited to: food, clothing, and shelter. Other responsibilities include: - Foster parents encourage positive relationships between foster children and his/her birth parents. - Foster parents arrange for medical and dental care. - Resource parents discipline in a positive way by setting fair, consistent and appropriate rules. - Resource parents help the child grow through educational, cultural, and social experiences. - Resource parents love and support the child and work as part of a team with the local Department of Social Services. - Resource parents help prepare the child to return home, live with relatives or adoptive parents if necessary.
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General requirements include: - Resource families must be at least eighteen years old and in good physical and mental health to raise a child. - Resource parents may be single or married, own a home or rent, stay home with children or work outside the home. - Resource parents must be able to provide for their own family's financial needs, have stable family relationships, have enough room for a foster child, complete the home study process (to include criminal and central registry background checks, submit driving record, physicals, and references), and resource parents must complete a training program.

Children in foster care come from many different backgrounds, races, ethnicities and religions. Foster children range in age from birth to twenty-one. Children are separated from their parents for many different reasons: physical or sexual abuse, neglect or abandonment, physical or mental illness of a parent, death of parents, or parental substance abuse.

Resource parents can generally choose a specific age range or gender, and have input on other factors. However, limiting the type of children you will care for may mean a longer wait for a foster child to be placed in your home. Resource parents may choose to not accept a placement if they feel it would not benefit the child.
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Resource parents do not receive wages for providing care. However, resource parents do receive a monthly reimbursement that helps cover the cost of the child's food, clothing and other basic needs.
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