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respite care--great way to start
It's great that you want to foster! I'm a new foster parent, and I really love it.
You are probably too young to be a foster parent in most states. But you might want to start the way I did--by doing respite care for other foster parents.
When you do respite, you take care of foster kids for a few hours or overnight to give foster parents a break. (And some of these kids are tough--so foster parents really NEED that break in order to be good parents.)
Check with your local department of child and family services, and ask them what you would have to do to do respite. Usually, you'll have to do some training courses on fostering and undergo a background check before you're an approved respite caregiver.
I loved doing respite. I did it for two years before I did fulltime foster. It's a great way to meet a wide variety of foster kids.
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