Foster Families are needed throughout Newfoundland and Labrador. To Foster is to share heart and home with a child/youth. Foster Families provide a nurturing, supportive home environment for children. Foster Care is meant to be a temporary arrangement to allow birth families to work on a range of challenges that resulted in their child being placed in foster care. All families have problems sometimes and the main goal in most circumstances will be reunification. Foster Families support children/youth’s individuality, cultural connections, spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation etc. There …
Understanding Adolescence – Virtual Training
Virtual session on Understanding Adolescence offered by Waypoints for foster parents from St. John's to Glovertown on February 16, 2022. Call 728-3485 or email reneepiercey@waypointsnl.ca by February 14, 2022 to register. This session will discuss the changes and challenges of this complex time, as well as offer some helpful strategies for parenting adolescents.