Really Helpful Information for Foster Parents

Do you feel you have enough love in your heart to give to a fostered child a forever home?

Are you interested in learning about older foster children? Would you mind reading to understand what it means to age out of the foster care system? The challenges that our foster…

Children and a child in Foster care will have challenges when returning to school this year.

When a child enters foster care through social services, it is seen as a traumatic experience for all children in foster care; they lose so much, regardless of how valid the…

Many children come into DSS custody each year. Consider these all these statistics from VDSS as you learn more about the foster care system across Virginia as of August 2022: As…

Why is Kinship care necessary for a family and a child?

Deborah Pryor talks about her interview with one of Extra Special Parent's very own foster parents, Chrystal. 

Let's start with the basics. According to the Virginia Department of Social Services (DSS), these are the following requirements and steps to becoming a foster parent in the state…

So how do we juggle biological children and children in foster care? How do we ensure the biological and foster child feels loved and nurtured? Here are some ways to create and…

When a family starts considering the idea of fostering, typically, a relationship with that child's biological family is the furthest thing from their mind. 

So often, when speaking about fostering youth, there is an unspoken fear of "losing" the children once they return home. But in many situations, that does not have to be the case.

Fostering teens has been where I have found my niche as a foster parent.