Forestdale’s Strong Families – Foster Care program provides nurturing homes to help more than 500 youth achieve their personal, academic and professional goals.
Like all kids, children in foster care need guidance, patience, love and a strong education. If you chose to become a foster parent, your role is to parent children who face adversity, helping them heal and thrive. Forestdale supports foster and birth parents so they and their children, birth to 21 years, are successful. We provide training and counseling so the children, birth parents, and foster parent can thrive.
Forestdale has a strong track record of success in helping families succeed: we have pioneered a parental attachment model for system-involved families that has become a citywide foster care standard (i.e. the University of Delaware’s evidence-based Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up model); we partnered with New York University’s Child Study Center to pilot the evidence-informed model of Trauma Systems Therapy to help families heal; and we have received good reviews for our work, including a Safety score from the City of 94 (on a scale of 100),
Parenting is not easy. In fact, you’ve never done anything so challenging. But the rewards are immense. You’re volunteering to save a life, and hopefully help a family reunify. And Forestdale will be with you every step of the way.
Foster Parent Trainings
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May |
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| Wednesday | 5/23/18 | 10-12 pm | Cultural Responsiveness |
| Thursday | 5/24/18 | 6-8 pm | Cultural Responsiveness |
| Thursday | 5/31/18 | 6-8 pm | Helping Children Heal |
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June |
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| Wednesday | 6/6/18 | 10-12 pm | Trauma and PTSD (Special) |
| Thursday | 6/14/18 | 6-8 pm | Tired of Talking: my kids don’t listen |
| Friday | 6/15/18 | 10-12 pm | Tired of Talking: my kids don’t listen |
| Thursday | 6/28/18 | 6-8 pm | Trauma and PTSD (Special) |
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July |
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| Thursday | 7/12/18 | 6-8 pm | Road to Recovery: Supporting children with IDD (special) |
| Sunday | 7/15/18 | 10 am – 3 pm | Special Sunday |
| Wednesday | 7/25/18 | 10-12 pm | Road to Recovery: Supporting children with IDD (special) |
**Please be advised children (biological or foster children) will not be able to attend. The materials presented are not suitable for them nor is child care available.
- Please RSVP at least two days prior to the training you are planning to attend
- Your home will not be recertified if you don’t have enough training hours
- Most of your trainings hours must be completed at Forestdale
- Keep track of the trainings you’ve already attended.
If you would like to complete foster parent trainings online use the following link. http://www.bsc-cdhs.org/fosterparenttraining/
For more information on this program email: fosterparentrecruitment@forestdaleinc.org
How you can help
Become a Foster Parent
Forestdale is looking for special people to provide temporary homes, guidance and love to young people who cannot safely remain with their parents. Your role is to provide children and teens with the emotional support they need to heal and thrive. At the same time, you work with Forestdale to help birth parents make progress towards rebuilding their families. In most cases, foster children reunite with their birth parents; when it is not safe to do so, Forestdale will facilitate the adoption process.
Learn MoreBecome a Mentor
We are looking for mentors (18 years+) to work with children ages 9-12 for one year, who will inspire them to make smart decisions and pursue their dreams. Teams of two mentors will each work with five mentees. There will be four 10 week sessions throughout the year each running for three hours on Saturdays from 10 am to 1 pm. The program will take place at our new Hollis Community Center located at 203-09 Hollis Avenue, Hollis, NY 11412.
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