Although it can be hard to understand tantrums or depressions, the answer is often right there at home. For foster parents, however, the answers are not so easy to grasp.
Most foster parents come from fairly stable backgrounds and families.
While you have compassion for the children, you can't always understand their problems. To help foster parents understand, the UK Foster Parent Training Program offers meetings, conferences, classes and mailings targeted to explain problems and solutions, make parents aware of services and educate them on foster parenting techniques. The consortium's goal is to strengthen the state's child welfare, family preservation and juvenile service components of the social service system through staff training and education programs. UK's unique mission in the consortium is to offer statewide foster parent training directly to parents. A foster parent brings an unknown child into their home and needs to learn to understand where he has been and what he has experienced.