1. DUTCH STRATEGY New knowledge about attachment You can never stop being the father and mother Closing institutions for the youngest children small scale residential care

2. The new law on youth care Limits to the growth of youth care “Good enough” parents Foster care and residential care in one organisation means less competition Mixed offer: part time residential care + part time foster care Kinship care is no second choice

3. ABOUT MONEY 1 residential placement = 7 foster care placements = 20 family coaching programs

4. ROEMENIE ON DUTCH TELEVISION

5. TSUNAMI THAILAND

6. HOW TO FIND NEW FOSTER PARENTS

7. STEPS IN DECISION MAKING information awareness interest consideration decision

8. HOW TO BECOME A FOSTER PARENT General information: posters, radio and TV spots (11.000) First introduction meetings (7.500) Training Selection Acceptation (3.000) Matching.

9. WHY BECOME A FOSTER PARENT? - solidarity - instead of an own child  voluntary  not voluntary money

11. DO YOU LIKE THIS BOY ?

12. AND NOW?

13. A FOSTER CHILD IS IN THE FIRST PLACE JUST A CHILD. As normal as possible, also for her

14. A NATURAL THING? HAVING SOMEONE ELSE’S CHILD IN YOUR MIDST

15. GREETINGS FROM RUSSIA….

17. MAORI FOSTER CARE

18. UNICEF CROATIA

19. WE ARE LOOKING FOR A HEART WITH SOME EXTRA ROOM.

20. WWW.PLEEGZORG.NL

21. CRITERIA TO BE ACCEPTED AS A FOSTER FAMILY To participate in a training and selection program (pride) No criminal back ground Cooperation with our social workers To hit is forbidden Always contact with the birth family

22. SOME STATEMENTS Showing respect to the birth parents increases the succes of the foster care placement When foster parents talk negative about the parents, they deny a part of the child

23. SHE IS PRESENT/ACCEPTED: A PHOTO FROM HIS MOTHER IN HIS BEDROOM

24. OUR OFFICE AGAIN

26. YOU CAN TAKE A CHILD OUT OF THE FAMILY, BUT YOU CANNOT TAKE THE FAMILY OUT OF THE CHILD ”

27. TO-HAVE-OR-TO-HELP foster care open adoption adoption

28. CONTACT: RDEBOT@PLANET.NL DECEMBER 2012