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Treatment Foster Care Program now recruiting foster
homes
Are
you willing to work hard, take on new learning, experience new
challenges and incredible satisfaction? We are seeking Treatment Foster
Parents to support our work with children in our Treatment Foster Care
program.
The
caregiver and the child are at the centre of the treatment. We provide
the caregiver with a competitive compensation package for each days care
plus reimbursable expenses to cover daily living costs. Families are
able to take up to TWO full-time treatment children per home. We provide
ongoing 24/7 consultation and support, monthly relief, and weekly
supervision, monthly training opportunities and ongoing clinical
supports.
We
are a creative, energetic, child focused, positive, therapeutic
environment.
For
more information, please contact:
John Harrison, (519) 524 – 7356 or (519) 271 – 5290 ext 2258.
Treatment Foster Care will appeal most to parents who;
- Are eager to learn.
- Value parenting very highly and
believe it is one of the highest callings to aspire to.
- Want to become “professionals” in
their field. Foster parents, who are well read, attend conferences and thrive on
training opportunities.
- Can work well as a team player.
The treatment foster parent welcomes the intervention of the treatment team and
is ready to allow his or her work to be viewed by others.
- One foster parent is expected to
be home on a full time basis.
- It is important for individual
bedrooms to be designated.
Tasks of Foster Parents:
- Provides the basic needs to the
children in the home, for example, food, shelter, clothing
- Protects, accepts and nurtures the
child(ren).
- Part of the development and
implementation of the treatment plan
- Tolerate behavioural escalations
and react according to the treatment plans
- Provides professional feedback
about the child and family to the team, courts, schools, other agencies involved
- Keeps daily logs and notes that
contributes to child progress reports and assessments
- Completes treatment incident
report
- Attends all training, support and
clinical sessions
- Attends school, medical and
community appointments as required
Competencies of Treatment Foster Parents:
- Models strong life skills, possess
strong insight into own strengths and areas of growth, able to enter into
therapeutic relationship; caring method of working with children
- Basic competency in behavior
management
- Provides a therapeutic milieu
- Trauma informed
- Reinforces child heritage and
cultural identity
- Values and supports relationships
between child and family
- Represents self and program in
professional manner, understands roles and responsibilities of team members, has
good knowledge of systems
- Writing reflects knowledge of
treatment issues and understands the use of reporting mechanisms
- Commitment to personal and
professional growth
- Competent, committed and
consistent
Treatment Foster Parents are not expected to function independently.
They will be asked to intervene using strategies specified in the
child’s treatment plan. Any services provided by community service
providers (i.e. HPCC clinical supports and intervention strategies) will
be integrated into the work in the treatment home, not a substitute for
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