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We are a foster family: With 15 years of experience, we accompany foster children as part of full-time care in the areas of social and special educational, as well as medical care. It is also possible for us to take foster children into short-term care and/or day care. If necessary, a care level is requested from the care insurance fund. Our focus is on foster children with autistic disabilities and FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome), as well as with other medical needs. We take care of optimal care, support and support individually tailored to the need for care and accompany them to a self-determined independent lifestyle even after adulthood. My wife and I are nursing professionals with state-recognized exams in geriatric care and have extensive knowledge of treatment care, basic care and care for those in need of care with limited everyday skills. We also offer our foster children a safe and secure home, a family structure, their own room and leisure activities.
Long-term care of a foster child Depending on the situation of the family of origin and the child, full-time care is created with the intention of repatriation or with a permanent perspective. First of all, a reasonable period of time must be set for the sustainable improvement of the situation in the family of origin in order to improve the return option through suitable assistance. If this cannot be achieved, all those involved must work out a life perspective that is as permanent as possible for the child in the foster family. Aspects of long-term care are: The foster parents take the foster child into their family, provide it with comprehensive care and encourage it according to its abilities and inclinations. They try to give the child the love, attention, security, closeness and freedom it needs for healthy development. A foster child is always a child with two families, the family of origin and the foster family. Contact with the family of origin helps the child to find its identity, to clarify and to cope with its own situation and history. It is important for all foster parents to critically examine their own expectations of the foster child and themselves and to correct them again and again. It is never easy to integrate a completely strange child into your own family.
Stand-by care for a foster child Stand-by care takes in children, babies, toddlers and school children in emergency situations. This often has to happen at very short notice. There are often only hours between the call from the youth welfare office and the admission of the child. It is clear to all sides that the child who has been taken in is only staying with the family for a short period of time (maximum 3 months). During this time, it must be clarified whether the child will return to its family of origin or whether it will find a new home in suitable long-term care or in other institutions. Aspects of standby care are: The foster child comes from an acute emergency situation; it is frightened, may be ill, and may be very erratic in its behavior. It needs unconditional acceptance and round-the-clock loving care. Since there is usually not enough information about the foster child, their level of development, their health and, above all, their needs and wishes must be clarified. This is done in close cooperation between the youth welfare office, other institutions involved and the on-call care family.
