Bay Area Homes for Kids

I recently attended a conference with staff from several counties focusing on our implementation of Differential Response.  For those of you who may not be aware, this program has been developed as part of our child welfare redesign.  When families are referred for services and assessed, and it is determined that formal child welfare is […]

By: Jessica Macready, ILSP Community Outreach Consultant
My introduction to the Independent Living Skills Program (ILSP) began when Don Graves, then the Outreach Specialist, came to my foster home in Clayton to discuss the program in detail.  I was 16 years old and felt that I was already very independent and could handle living on my own […]

Question: My foster child has been in my home for three years and she has had four social workers.  How can I help her adjust to one more social worker when she seems to losing trust with each change-over?
Change. Transition. Transformation. Alteration. Adjustment. I have heard all these points as I have been moving into […]

After my first foster home, I lived with these people that was planning to adopt me, but they didn’t ’cause they had a baby of their own.  After that I went to another foster home that was gonna adopt me.  There were seven of us - the lady said that she wanted a big family.  […]

My mom gave me up because she was going through drug therapy and she couldn’t get rid of the drugs, so she had to get rid of something.  She didn’t want me to be mistreated, so she gave me away.  Foster care was going from one house to another house and rules and stuff changing.  […]