A book appropriate for children and families connected by foster care.

Recommended for ages 6 and up with ages 6-9 being read with an adult. Beautifully illustrated, this work provides an honest look and deeper understanding of how the foster care process works and the feelings that many children have about being removed from their families of origin, and being placed into foster care.

There are brief references to real reasons why a family can't stay together such as a parent not being able to provide food and shelter, addiction, incarceration and being too young to parent a child.

What is Foster Care? is written in simple terms it aims to inspire an honest conversation about the realities of how foster families are formed today. This book is authored by a licensed psychotherapist, who was also raised in foster care system and who's firsthand experience provides a special insight into the complex feelings for all involved. The book provides support to foster and adoptive parents, foster care and adoption social workers, as well as mental health workers. The story helps ease understanding of the foster care experience, and educates the reader about dealing with issues around grief and loss and the importance of belonging to a home called "family".

"The most important thing to remember is that children can not be left alone. In fact, it is against the law to leave a child alone, uncared for or unprotected. Every child deserves and needs a safe home, a loving parent and a good education."

You are worthy.

You are loved.

You are valuable.

You are not alone.

Written by Child Psychotherapist and Adoptee, Jeanette Yoffe, M.F.T.

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	38
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Yoffe Therapy Inc.
Fecha de Publicación	2022-05-13
Dimensiones	8.5" x 8.5" x 0.25" pulgadas
Serie	What Is?
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No

Joglekar, Devika

Devika Joglekar is an animator and illustrator. She has always aspired to author children's books, which are not only fun to read but also inspire young readers to learn and discover interesting things.She has been bringing ideas to life through her labor of love, miheika.com.Originally from India, she now lives with her husband in San Francisco Bay Area.

Yoffe, Jeanette

Jeanette Yoffe, M.A., MF.T., is the Executive Director and Founder of Celia Center, a non-profit support center which meets the critical needs of all those connected by foster care and adoption and all those who serve the community of foster care and adoption in Los Angeles, CA and beyond. She is also an adoptions and foster care psychotherapist and director of Yoffe Therapy. Yoffe's desire to become a therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system. Yoffe has been in the field for over 20 years, providing mental health education and support, as a psychotherapist, foster care social worker, clinical director, and trainer for Los Angeles County Child & Family Services and the Department of Mental Health. She continues to teach parents, social workers and therapists on adoption and foster care challenges, trauma-informed parenting, impact of pre-adoption trauma, grief/loss, open adoption, and provides support to adult adoptees searching for long lost family members, as well as assists in reunion and family reunification. She is a Court Appointed Reunification Expert for Los Angeles Superior Court in cases involving children at risk for separation. She has appeared on the OWN and TLC Network, as a Psychotherapist teaching about Adoption in the shows Raising Whitley and Long Lost Family. She has written two books, What is Adoption? For Kids and Groundbreaking Interventions: Working with Traumatized Children, Teens and Families in Foster Care and Adoption (available on Amazon) and a play about growing up in foster care adoption "What's Your Name, Who's Your Daddy?"(available on Audible and on Amazon). For more info visit JeanetteYoffe.com.