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1 | Which option best describes your family? | How long have you been or were you a foster family? | How many placements have you had as a foster family? | What were the ages of each child? | What are the barriers you encountered that prevented you from taking placement or continuing to foster? | Other not listed | Are you a part of a church or faith-based community? | if yes which one | If you had a small group of trained friends family, check all of the ways that you would feel equipped supported and more rested as a foster family? | Would you take advantage of an opportunity to spend a few nights in a cottage/cabin outside of the city for rest and refreshment at no cost to you? | What were/are your greatest needs as a foster family? | How can we most effectively serve you? | Is there anything else you would like to add? | I would like to receive a copy of the results of this survey. | I would like Nebraska 117 to contact me to visit about ways that a small group could support my family. | |||||||||||
2 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 1.5 years | 1 | 1.5 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits,Needed a break | - | No | - | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Support. Help with transportation to appts. Food. Just a break!! | Support. Help with transportation to appts. Food. Just a break!! | - | No | Yes | |||||||||||
3 | Licensed foster family w/ kinship placement | 14 months and going | 1 | Now 14 months placement 30 days | Scared to start again | Nothing | Yes | Wymore church of christ | By praying for me.,By providing respite monthly. | Yes | Advice of the unknown. Getting over that hurdle was the hardest for us. What is going to happen next or what could. To prepare | We love to read about other families journey advice. Mostly kinship because that is our situation. | We are almost at reunification most likely in 4 to 6 weeks . So we would like information or advice with kinship going thur this part. | Yes | No | |||||||||||
4 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 15 months | 1 | 13,13,15 | Needed a break | The challenges of teens and I’m to afraid to say I need a break. Or just someone saying we back you up | No | No | By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me. | Yes | I feel so alone. Sometime I wonder how my bio kids feel through this chaos. The standards are different in how I parent my foster kids vs my bio kids. I feel the animosity from the bio mother of my foster kids. I feel like I am always having to justify and protect myself. So I guess emotional support? I feel like no matter the missteps that bio parents make while trying to get kids back foster parents have to do more and more. The answer alway has to be yes because I don’t feel like I get to set boundries. | I think overall more support needs to be given for foster parents. We are the punching bags of the system. No one ever says hey these people are doing the impossible. I have poured everything I have into my family as a whole and I have nothing else left and yet it still isn’t enough | I also think a mentor program woudk be great. Sometimes I just want to spring board off someone else in the same situation that can say hey your doing fine or this is what we can try. We are newish at this and we are a kinship with full license and this is hands down the hardest thing I have ever done | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
5 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 6 yrs | 3 placements- 5 kids | 10f, 11m; 2m, 2m; 3 months f | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | NA | No | NA | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry. | Yes | Time away to rest, Daily chores, transportation, help when kids are sick so I didn’t have to leave work | All of the above | No thanks | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
6 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 1 year | 2 | 6 month and 2 year old | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | N/A | Yes | Cross the Line Church | By praying for me.,By providing respite monthly. | Yes | I think not just providing time away for foster parents but offering each licensed home therapy/counseling to give them a place to work through their own stress, trauma, heartache that can come with foster care. Preferably to a wide range of providers so they can find the right fit for them. | Continuing to grow and listen to the compaints of the foster parents. Help them feel supported in their frustrations so that they don't feel defeated when trying to be heard. | N/a | Yes | No | |||||||||||
7 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 5 years | 10 | 9 months, 2, 4, 6, 12, 13, 10, 2, 4, 18, | Needed a break | Lies from DHHS, being unable to protect foster child from dangerous situations due to DHHS not listening to CASA, GAL, foster parents, and doctors | Yes | Still searching but are religious | By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Respite, a listening ear, laundry help | Respite, laundry, general shoulder to cry on | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
8 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 2 years | 7 | 14, 1, 6, 4, 1, 4 months, 11 months | Did not get calls for placement,Needed a break | Daycare, need a large passenger van to take anymore in order to be able to drive them! The need for sleep! | No | NA | By bringing me weekly meals.,By praying for me. | Yes | DRIVING! Homework help or meal prep | Gluten free meals (we have 3 celiacs and 7 in our family). Helping with rides or pick ups. Even meal prep | I have no idea what I need sometimes until it all hits the fan. Ideas of what people are wanting to do to help is usually easier for me. Give me a list and I can tell you if it would be helpful! This is amazing and when I listened to the information I was in tears, that who would be so generous and want to help when we signed up for this crazy road that we live! | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
9 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 3yrs | 3 | 20 months, 11 months, 2 days | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits,Needed a break | Na | No | Na | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Support and understanding of all the diffeent challenges that are faced and mixed emotions that the family goes through. | Be willing to help | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||
10 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 3-4years | 10 | 6,12,15,14,12,16,15,5,newborn,4 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Lack of follow through with listening to the children from DHHS. Caseworkers not taking the responsibility of being the legal guardian. Not knowing what is going on with said child (medically/school/etc) | No | Na | By providing respite monthly. | Yes | Medically trained respite providers. Being paid accordingly due to child's needs. | Training to families that is accurate information on what families will actually be going through. The pay is very undervalued due to what foster families deal with daily/most likely won’t be able to work a job with multiple foster children due to behaviors/medical/etc. | DHHS caseworkers need to understand the actual role they are to be providing to their children they are legal guardians for. Can’t take the responsibility appropriately then they need to be removed immediately. Foster families go through a lot, adding pay that isn’t even adequate for growing children, can’t even accurately feed/clothe these children on $20 a day. Because being a foster parent is extremely hard as it is and not having appropriate pay to make sure foster child is taken care of properly ( food/hygiene/extracurricular activities). | Yes | No | |||||||||||
11 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 1 year | 1 full time and 4 for respite | 15, 11, 9, 1 and 6 months | Needed a break | None | Yes | Citylight | By bringing me weekly meals.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me. | Yes | Transportation, prayer and meals. | I think the structure that is already laid out is great. Prayer, meals and transportation to and from school or appointments would be the greatest needs for our family right now. | I’ve already talked to Tim and we are starting the process of praying through who would be best for our care team. | No | Yes | |||||||||||
12 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 10 months | 2 | 13 and 14 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | age-range not being suitable for our home/life at time of call | Yes | Southridge Church | By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me.,By running errands for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | - prayer for us as foster parents and prayer for our foster kids - other adults who build relationship/mentorship with our foster kids | I think this is one of the best ways - asking us directly! also I love the monthly support groups | My foster care experience with Release has been wonderful and I have no complaints. I enjoy the monthly support group very much and I love my Foster Care Specialist, she's incredibly intentional and I feel very supported by her. I appreciate the events/resources provided without feeling "pushed or forced" to HAVING to participate. If anyone I knew ever wanted to foster, I would 100% recommend Release as their choice of agency. ***FYI for the form in the question above "What are the barriers you encountered that prevented you from taking placement or continuing to foster?" - none of the provided choices apply to us, however it required me to choose something and wouldn't let me submit the form otherwise and so that answer is not true, but I had to pick something. | No | Yes | |||||||||||
13 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 7 1/2 years | 6 | 15,14,13,12,7,6 | Scared to start again | Not enough room in my home | Yes | One way church | By bringing me weekly meals.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Help with groceries, this is my main struggle is making sure I have fruits, milk, bread, eggs and so forth. | Yard work ,and more resources to help with groceries and maybe have a meal made and deliver /dropped off at our home | Holidays is so so stressful for me ,then having 6 kids and getting only once a month pay | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
14 | Not licensed, but have a placement | 13 months | 1 | 10 weeks at placement (current placement) | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | NA | Yes | Beth Israel Synagogue | By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By running errands for me. | Yes | The agency that provides supervised visits with biological parents is inconsistent and does not seem to have enough staff to provide make-up visits. We could use a flexibility to be able to cancel and reschedule visits. | NA | NA | Yes | No | |||||||||||
15 | Not licensed, but have a placement | 1 month- ongoing | 3 children | 5, 3, 6 months | Needed a break | N/A | Yes | Tribe church | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me. | Yes | Getting respite when needed for our marriage and our own children. | Help with babysitting or watching foster children as needed | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||
16 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 3.5 years | 6 | 16, 17, 17, 17, 16, 18 | Needed a break | Damage to home. Otemher children in the home being exposed to youth’s substance abuse and no one holding the youth accountable but us. | No | No | By running errands for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry. | Yes | Having time for all children in the home. Having time for spouse. | Someone to help lighten the load involving household chores and lawn care. | There are not enough resources for foster parents. Caseworkers treat you like you’re getting paid to foster. If you were getting paid it would equate to $0.75 an hour for a two parent home. | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
17 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 5 years | 5 | 2, 18 months, 5, 8, 5, 9, 10 | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Finishing our basement | Yes | Milford Mennonite Church | By praying for me.,By bringing me weekly meals. | Yes | Support in general. Community, family, agency support is huge in whether a family is successful in fostering. | Helping line up all the extra stuff. Appointments, visits, therapy, it can all become a lot without extra supports. | The hardest part of fostering isn’t the kids in care or bio families. It’s the system that drains foster families. | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
18 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 20 years | Unk | 0 to 15 | Did not get calls for placement | Not in age range | Yes | Christ place | By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me.,By providing respite monthly. | Yes | Finding respite homes | Supportive groups Help with vouchers at placement | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
19 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 2.5 years | 3 | 18, 14, 16 | Needed a break | n/a | No | n/a | By providing respite monthly. | Yes | When I had the 14 and 16 year olds, the biggest need was the need for things for the boys to do after school and over the summer. For me, it was the need for resources for auto insurance, cell phone - these are things that can be tricky to acquire for a foster kiddo without taking on the personal liability/cost. | I'd love to see more resources for foster families/kids to help with things that are tied to the kid, rather than to the foster parent. I ran into issues with auto insurance and cell phones for my foster kids. | n/a | No | Yes | |||||||||||
20 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 3 mo. | One | 17 | Did not get calls for placement | Limited Space. We're only licensed for one child. | Yes | Unitarian Church of Lincoln | By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By bringing me weekly meals. | Yes | Meal prep/planning. Having not had to cook for a teenager, coordinating everyone's preferences is a bit difficult. | Healthy, quick family-friendly recipe ideas. | Of all the challenges that I thought foster care would entail, I did not expect meal prep stress as the worst! | No | No | |||||||||||
21 | Licensed foster family w/ first placement | 1 year ongoing | 1 | 8mo (20 mo now)& 5yo (6yo now) | Needed a break | Na | Yes | St Bernard Catholic church | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Just getting a mental break. All the chores are overwhelming. Laundry for five small kids is hard to keep up with. | Meal prep, childcare for all our kids so we can enjoy a date, mowing the lawn would be a huge help or picking up dog poop 🫣 | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
22 | Former foster family (license expired) | 7 years, 4 years | 7, 5 | 2,2, 2days, 10 days, 2, 4, 17, 14,13, 15, 14, 15 | Needed a break | Placement restrictions due to age of kids | Yes | Catholic | By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By running errands for me.,By praying for me.,By bringing me weekly meals.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Support withe child's behaviors, support from caseworker (she was blaming of foster parents), respite for short periods of time (an evening out), help when kids could not attend school due to behaviors (missing work), technology support for teenagers (phone, computer safety issues) | Believe us. Provide daycare outside of work hours for respite needs, I appreciated support groups, support groups for kids too, and family activities (zoo pass, spring game, etc). An occasional offer to help with kids would be nice. Home repairs after kids break/destroy something, | Our experience was mostly great, but one caseworker ruined it for us. She was blaming, created distrust, and hurt our relationship with the birth parent due to her triangulation. Caseworkers need to remember they are only involved for a short time, but we are involved for a life time. I would love to support current foster families! | Yes | No | |||||||||||
23 | Former foster family (license expired) | 8 years | 4 | 17y,15y, 8y, 1 week | Needed a break | CEUs | Yes | Non denominational | By providing respite monthly.,By bringing me weekly meals.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry. | Yes | Respite | Emotional and practical support | CEUs or training that is required, is what originally caused our license to expire. We are licensed professionals in the state of Nebraska and do lots of CEUs for that, but they cannot be used for licensing foster care as the timing did not line up | Yes | No | |||||||||||
24 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 7 years | 5 | Newborn x2, age 3 x 2 and 7 | Scared to start again,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Dhhs | No | I am frustrated with the system. I feel that their is lack of support for the kids and it's all about the parents. | By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me.,By bringing me weekly meals. | Yes | Understanding of specific special needs of high needs kiddos | Advocate for the safety of the kids | We need to be proactive with the kids and their needs... not just serve the parents. These kids have been through trauma and we have to address the situations that they have been through or they will never be able to live to their utmost potential. | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
25 | Former foster family (license expired) | 7 years?? | 8 | 10 months, 13 months, 3,6,8,8,16,16 years | Did not get calls for placement | Did not get any supports when I had cancer and 3 foster children. I was treated horribly and not allowed to have respite because I asked for respite when I was very sick they took away one of the children with severe behaviors and split up siblings that I adopted later. Since 2017 my two daughters that I adopted have not been allowed to see their biological brother that they lived with for 10 years and he only lives 15 miles from us his new adoptive parents refuse to allow us to see him this has tragically heard them, and they have had to have therapy for this and all the other things that happened to them when they were in foster care. | Yes | Journey | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By running errands for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Support and not to feel like a victim. If we would've been allowed to have respite as neeeded, my children would still have their brother. | It’s too late. We adopted 3 children and have guardianship of one due to wanted to keep bio family welcome in his life. We have a huge heart for foster care but the system hurt all of us. Including bio children. | I would gladly meet and tell our story to protect children and wonderful foster families from being destroyed as ours was. | Yes | No | |||||||||||
26 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 2.5 years | 2 | 15, 8 | Needed a break | Was lied to by DHHS/many details left out so hesitant to take new placements | Yes | Love church | By bringing me weekly meals.,By praying for me. | Yes | Needing ways to recharge | The meals are the greatest idea!! | The few times I did reach out for help I did not receive any, that makes it discouraging. If there is a group of people dedicated to being willing to help that would be helpful to do many families | No | No | |||||||||||
27 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 5 years | 8 | NB, 6m, 10m, 2yo, 8, 9, 14, 16 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Number of children, proximity | Yes | Journey Church Gretna | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me. | Yes | Respite, meal time | Meals, prayer, respite, date nights | No | No | No | |||||||||||
28 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 1 year | 1 | 6,7,9 | Scared to start again,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Negative interactions with case manager. | No | N/a | By providing respite monthly. | Yes | Effective communication with case manager. Respite. Behavioral support for kids. Emotional support for self. Logistical support for a single working foster mom trying to navigate endless appointments. | Respite, transportation for appointments, an empathetic listening ear. | The system is incredibly broken. At this time I have chosen to not take more placements. | Yes | No | |||||||||||
29 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 9 months | 1 | 7 | Did not get calls for placement | None | Yes | Stonebridge Christian Church | By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me. | Yes | Support as a single parent with no family in town. Working with the school and advocating for my foster son's rights and needs. | More, easy to find and access, options for qualified respite providers and sitters. Options for occasional transportation. | I have loved being a foster parent and cannot wait for my next placement. | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
30 | Licensed foster family w/ kinship placement | 3 months | 0 | 14 months | Did not get calls for placement | Family placement | Yes | St pius x | By running errands for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Clothes diapers | Passes to outings, zoo , pumpkin patch , children’s museum | No | No | No | |||||||||||
31 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 5 years | 9 | 2 to 11 | Needed a break | Behaviors | Yes | Hope Presbyterian | By bringing me weekly meals.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By providing respite monthly. | Yes | Clothing, activity fees for children | Provide better resources for items needed | No | No | No | |||||||||||
32 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 6 | 5 | 10 and 11; 2 and 2; and 3 months- at time of placement for each group | Needed a break | My foster daughter went home after a year and a half and currently need some time to grieve | No | NA | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Respite, help with errands and appointments, care when kids are sick, easy meals or doordash | See above | No thanks | No | Yes | |||||||||||
33 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 5 years | 7 | Newborn, 2, 1, 13, newborn, newborn | Needed a break | None | No | None | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me. | Yes | Diapers, formula and age appropriate activities at reasonable times | We have a great support system already but finding ways to encourage more families to build relationships with the biological families | None | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
34 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 10 years | 10 | newborn through five | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | N/A | No | N/A | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Support as a single mother | Not sure who "we" is in this question? | I am adopting the children in my care now and will no longer be fostering. | No | No | |||||||||||
35 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 3 years | 2 | 1st placement: 12, 11, 10, 4 2nd: 3, 5 | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Just adopted, waiting for them to get settled in | No | None, atheist | By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Respite and time to take a mental break. Genuine compassion and validation about what we experience and deal with. | I don't really know what you do honestly! | None | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
36 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 3 years | 1 | Infant | Needed a break | Adopted our child. Home is currently on hold | No | N/A | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | Better communication from case worker- more follow up | Nothing I can think of at the moment | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
37 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 6 yrs | 10 | 0-15 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits,Needed a break,Did not get calls for placement | Lack of support with sick kids | Yes | Life church | By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me.,By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly. | Yes | Support for sick kids/no school days Transportation for school, appts, therapy Emotional support The need to have a voice in court for the children | An option for care when kids are sick or school is out | X | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
38 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 7 months | 1 | 4 and 6 | Needed a break,Scared to start again | NA | Yes | Mary our queen | By praying for me.,By providing respite monthly. | No | Therapy for foster and biological children Health and education records | Not sure, we would ask our agency if we needed anything | No | Yes | No | |||||||||||
39 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 6 years | 9 | 9 months, 2, 3, 2, 4, 16 months, birth, 1.5, 8 months | Needed a break | Adopted son needing a lot of services currently | No | N/a | By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By bringing me weekly meals. | Yes | Right now a break | I think we had good support from our agency. We just haven’t had a break since we started and need the break for our family. | No comment | Yes | No | |||||||||||
40 | Former foster family (license expired) | 6-7 years | 15-Dec | Birth - 15 | Needed a break | Added to family and we were at max by state law | Yes | Good News/Tribe | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Rest Support from previous church | Awareness is key. Bringing the foster care world to more people. | No | Yes | No | |||||||||||
41 | Former foster family (license expired) | 8 years | 18 | 5 months to 19 years | Scared to start again | We took guardianship of one child and adopted 2, but still remain in contact with many of our placements and felt we were at capacity if we wanted to be able to remain a healthy support to these children when needed. | Yes | We have a group of Christ following friends but are currently not attending a church regularly. We consider ourselves to be apart of Love Church, but seriously have only gone 2x/year these last few years. | By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me.,By bringing me weekly meals. | Yes | Someone to help us pour into our foster children. It was too difficult to fill in all the gaps on our own. Maybe an intentional mentor type of support for them that could help them with homework sometimes or teach them some life skills and just help us make sure they felt loved. We didn't do respite because we always felt like the way it was set up made it fell like a rejection for the kids. I never wanted to make them feel like I needed a break so bad that I would send them to a stranger's house. So having someone that would support us by initiating the invitation to have the child spend time with them would have been amazing. This would have made it the complete opposite of a rejection for the child. | We have no plans to be licensed again. But your heart to help others to feel supported and not alone is serving me as well :) | Thank you for what you are doing!! | No | No | |||||||||||
42 | Licensed foster family w/ kinship placement | 10 months | 1 | 14 | Needed a break | We currently have placement of a great niece. . | No | None | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me. | Yes | Mental health Free therapy | One of my biggest frustrations is the foster care system itself. They can’t keep case managers and everything is done extremely slowly. You should work on supporting them with meals and prayers. | No | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
43 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 1 year | 1 | 14 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | None | Yes | Kingdom Builders Christian Center | By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me. | Yes | More support with getting him clothes as he didn’t have any when I got him | Support | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||
44 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 8 months | 2 | Infant & 2 | Needed a break | Nothing yet | Yes | Lifegate Church | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me. | Yes | Better communication/support from case managers. | Prayer. | No | No | No | |||||||||||
45 | Former foster family (license expired) | 7 years | 12 | 0 - 14 | Needed a break,Scared to start again | needed more support | Yes | Good News Church | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | We desperately need a break. Consistent support and encouragement would be a great help. | Knowing that there are people praying for us and helping in tangible ways. | N/A | Yes | No | |||||||||||
46 | Licensed foster family w/ first placement | 6 months | 1 | 9 yrs | Needed a break | Still doing so | Yes | One Way Ministries | By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me. | Yes | N/A | N/A | N/ A | No | No | |||||||||||
47 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 1 year and 10 months | 3 | 3,7,8 | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | The psychological needs of the current placements | Yes | Thanksgiving Lutheran | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By praying for me. | No | Respite care | By providing respite care | Deescalation training | Yes | No | |||||||||||
48 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 2.5 years | 4 | 2,3,5,6,9,11 | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Had a bio baby | Yes | Lifegate | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Dinners are hardest; transportation to therapy; trusted friends and families of friends for fosters | New care team leader | You are awesome | Yes | No | |||||||||||
49 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 6 months1 | 1 | 11 but turned 12 within 2 months | Scared to start again | Case manager | No | None | By praying for me. | Yes | Knowing that the Case Manager actually listens when we are grandparents/Foster parents know what we are talking about when it comes to placing the foster child with birth parent that was recently (within last 2 months). | Better trained Case Managers; listening skills are very important. | Case managers NEED to communicate better and keep the Foster Care Specialist in the loop and give them ALL the information regarding the case!!! | No | No | |||||||||||
50 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 2.5 years | 4 | NB, 2YRs, 7M, 3Yrs | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits,Needed a break | Pregnancy/ having a baby | Yes | Revival Church | By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Childcare/ respite | Prayers, house projects as we are not very handy | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||
51 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 6 months | 1 | 4 and 2 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Someone who can find therapists or other medical persons who are open to taking more patients. This would cut out the time spent to try to find medical people for foster kids | Yes | Harvest Church | By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me.,By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry. | Yes | Getting breaks | Having someone to call who has fostered before and can give practical advice when you don't know how to handle a behavior | No | No | Yes | |||||||||||
52 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 2015 | 6 | 2, 5, 6, 7, 12, 15 | Needed a break,Scared to start again,Did not get calls for placement,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Knowing/connecting with other single foster parents. It's a unique situation. | Yes | St. Andrews | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | A lot of it came down to logistics and trying to manage their needs/activities and still take care of myself. | Keep doing what you're doing!! | Nope! | Yes | No | |||||||||||
53 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 1.5 years | 1 family, 4 kids | 16, 9, 7, 1 | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Overall support, not feeling supported | Yes | Bridge | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By praying for me. | Yes | Drowning with managing it all. | Respite and/or driving kids to appointments. | Any practical assistance equates to support and that is HUGE. | No | Yes | |||||||||||
54 | Licensed foster family w/ kinship placement | 1 month | Just this one | 6&6 | Needed a break | Only want kinship | No | No | By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork). | Yes | A bigger house | Help find a bigger house | No | Yes | No | |||||||||||
55 | Licensed foster family w/ no placement | 1 year | 2 | 12 | Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | Na | Yes | One Hope - Benson | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Being able to meet my and my spouses needs and our placement needs, while also helping maintain connection with biological family, and getting to all the appointments, visits, and meetings | More after-school options for teens and pre-teens (with transportation) more "non-competive" sport/activity options | Na | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
56 | Licensed foster family w/ placement | 1.5 years | 1 | 8, 6, 2005 | Needed a break,Transportation to schools, appointments, visits | General stress of a big family, kids with big traumas, support on possible reunification | No | N/A | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By running errands for me.,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By praying for me. | Yes | Definitely respite and general support. | Based off the checkboxes, it sounds like you guys are going in the right direction. | I can't think of anything, this ministry sounds great. | No | Yes | |||||||||||
57 | Former foster family (license expired) | 2yrs | 1 | 16 | Needed a break | It was a family placement. It was our only planned placement. | Yes | Lifegate | By bringing me weekly meals.,By providing respite monthly.,By praying for me.,By helping maintain the outside of my house (i.e. yardwork).,By providing occasional practical support such as light housework or laundry. | Yes | Respite with a trusted person so I could relax without concern. Help along her to appointments. | N/a | Thank you for doing this. It is needed! | No | No | |||||||||||
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