It is a family setting for children who have been removed from their parents. Foster care provides them with stability while their parents deal with the issues at hand. Foster parents are caring and stable people who can support and nurture a child. They help the child develop physically, mentally and socially - according to their needs. Foster parents work with a network of professionals who are involved with the child and his family.
Foster parents mentor birth parents who are working toward reunification.
They help children transition back to their birth home or to an adoptive home. Children are placed in foster homes when they have been removed from their birth home because of abuse or neglect or other family issues that endanger their safety. Children visit their birth family until they can be reunited or parental rights are terminated. If parental rights have been terminated, the children live in foster homes while waiting for an adoptive home. Sometimes the foster family becomes the adoptive family.