Arlington County Government, VA Human Services (DHS), 7 May 2010

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From YouTube: NewsMakers; Foster Care Month

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News program featuring people and events in Arlington County Virginia.

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May is foster camera a subject very close to arlington county board member Barbara favola. She made the proclamation at a ceremony in clarendon, surrounded by blue ribbons. Each.

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Ribbon that we have tied on the tree here represents a child in foster care here in Arlington County. Currently we have over 130 children and care over. Sixty percent of those children are ages 13 and up. We definitely have a need 14 8 placements that can accept teens, one.

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Person with experience of fostering teens is Arlington's foster parent of the year Katina wells. Some.

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People don't want to care for teenagers, they think that is really hard, but it wasn't really that difficult for me, I just put myself in their shoes and tried to see how I would feel being a teenager away from my parents. You know and it helped the situation Katina.

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Are for Arlington foster parent of the year was chosen because she did a remarkable job in working with birth families. My.

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Biggest fear was the birth family, I didn't know how they would receive me or how I would deal with them, and that was my biggest fear. The birth, family and I've conquered that by bridging the gap, a lot.

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Of people believe that in fostering children you're just working with the child, but in fact you're actually working with the family as well, partnering with them to give them updates on their child to let them know that you're there to be a support for their child to to offer some mentoring as well and katina was great at doing that. We.

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Are here to reunify, if possible, that that's the first goal to reunify the child with her family, and so with that in mind, I know that you know you can show them all the love, but you have to remember the common goal and that's reunification when.

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We train our foster parents when we place a child in a home, our foster parents aren't alone, they have lots of support from the staff. The social workers here from other supports, like therapist or counselors. It really does involve a whole team of professionals to work with a child when they.

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Come in care, my first place when I still see her once a month and we still have a communication and she's. Actually, my god daughter so I think that you know the parents will key in on. You know if you're a good influence and they want to continue to keep you around and it works out that way. But it's just you feel a little bad because they're not there anymore, but because you know you've made a difference that feels the boys. It fills it with love.