Our Parents
- Enjoy the fulfillment of the challenges and rewards that come from helping youth develop self-esteem, life-long connections, and a healthy perspective on life.
- Offer commitment, patience, guidance, and compassion to the youth in our community,
- They share their hearts, their homes, and their family experience with the youth and NAI community.
- Have open minds, persistent, and vital members of the treatment team.
- Receive comprehensive training, 24 hour assistance, therapeutic services, guidance and financial reimbursement.
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Our Youth
- Desire a loving home in which they can develop into happy, healthy, and self-confident individuals with goals and dreams for their future.
- Have led traumatic, chaotic lives, and have rarely experienced stability or unconditional caring.
- Struggle with a wide range of emotional and/or behavioral challenges that are a direct result of abuse, neglect, and abandonment they have suffered.
- Need acceptance, guidance, nurturing, and a stable environment that will encourage their healing and growth.
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Foster Parent Certification Requirements
- 21 years of age
- Stable, safe and loving home environment
- Compassionate, flexible, mature, consistent and able to work with a team
- All adults in the home (18+) must be fingerprinted and cleared through Community Care Licensing
- All adults in the home (18+) must complete a physical exam and TB test (no charge if done through one of our contracted clinics)
- Financially stable
- Attend pre-certification trainings, as well as in-service and support trainings
- Meet and maintain compliance with State, Local and Program policies and regulations, including locking all medications and weapons
- Access to a car with a valid driver's license and current automobile insurance
- Provide adult supervision to foster youth at all times (day care providers/ after school programs must be approved by the social worker)
- Current First Aid and CPR certification (agency can provide)
- Provide transportation to and from appointments
- Be available to weekly visits with New Alternatives Social Worker
- Able to provide structure and individualized care to foster youth
- Comply with quarterly evaluations and record keeping
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Email us at parenting@newalternatives.org
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