What type of support is available for foster parents?
• Each foster child has an assigned Child Advocate (caseworker) that visits the child at least once a month and assists the foster parent with obtaining services for the child and ensuring that the foster parent is able to meet the foster child’s needs. • Once a foster child is placed in a foster home, the foster parent will receive a monthly board payment that is meant to cover most of the cost of caring for the foster child. **It is NOT meant to be a source of income and you WILL incur some expenses on your own. • Every child in foster care has Medicaid to cover all medical expenses. • Twelve days of paid respite care is also available through the foster home management agency. Respite care is when a foster child stays with another foster family for one or more nights, usually when foster parents must go out of town and cannot bring the child with them. • The foster parents also have a foster home support specialist through the foster home licensing agency. The specialist is availabl
