Foster kids room

For many of us, an 1100 square-foot home is on the small side. Ideal, perhaps, for a family of three or four, but what we'd consider too tight of a squeeze…

Prep for the Home Study and Review this list of Foster Care Home Study Questions to know what to expect and find other Tips for Foster Parents.

Now that I’m getting up in the night with baby, I’ve been getting my house show fix on at 3 in the morning. It’s kind of the perfect time to watch television all by myself (well,…

Use a worry board to decorate a foster care bedroom with something fun and functional for both the foster child and the foster parents.

Still Orphans is excited to announce we are partnering with Mattress Firm to get the word out about a new mattress program for foster families! Mattress Firm has done a lot of work for fo…

Kids: Unknown; foster kids expected any day, one or sibling pair ages newborn – 5 yearsLocation: Nashville, TNRoom Size: 10′ x 11′ Martina and her husband Jason were in a unique position when designing the kids’ room for their house. They still don’t know how many, what gender, and what ages the children they foster will be.

Last year, our 2011 "Foster Friday" panel wrote about always being prepared as a foster parent . I never got around to adding my tidbits ...

We live in a 3 bedroom house. When we first decided to do fostering we were going to keep one room as an office, put a crib in our room and bunk beds in the other room. And so we did. Two months later we made the decision to some how find places for/ get rid of our whole office, split the bunk beds (they are the kind that separate into two twins) and move the crib. So NOW we have TWO foster rooms! One is a girly room with one twin bed, the other has a neutral jungle theme with a crib and a…

Now that your home study is complete, here are some tips for foster parents on how to prepare for your first foster placement.