Benefits for You and the Child For You
For the Child
Create relationships that last a lifetime, by opening your home to a young person who is a good match for your family. Earn a dependable second income at home. Receive a tax-free income that pays for the needs of the foster child and reimbursements for your efforts parenting a child. Earn additional income after achieving Transformation Education (TranZed) Certification status.
Foster parenting goes beyond helping an individual child. Foster parents help fight the problems of homelessness, substance abuse, mental health, domestic abuse, poverty. While caring for foster children, foster parents give a child’s birth parents the chance to receive the necessary help to overcome problems that may have led to the removal of the children from their home. Foster parents can also be role models to birth parents on better ways of parenting the children.
An average 4-year-old child comes with $282 per month to cover expenses, while a medical or special-needs child would receive $671 per month.
You’re helping children have better lives. You’re actively removing them from poor environments and providing them with the stability they’re seeking. Even if you only have a child for a few months, you have the ability to teach the child lifelong lessons and set positive examples for how healthy families should function.
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