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A family who has or is working on having one or more children in foster care placed in their homes with the goal of adoption.

New tool to help simplify Washington State P.R.I.D.E. trainings for adoptive and foster families.

Fri, 09/09/2011 - 12:20

Families Like Ours releases new tool to help simplify Washington State P.R.I.D.E. trainings for adoptive and foster families. 

Families and professionals can now find out what P.R.I.D.E. trainings are available, and register for FLO and other agency trainings through www.wapridetraining.org, and www.familieslikeours.org web sites. Families Like Ours has made this available in light of September 2011 changes in the King County P.R.I.D.E. training registration process after hearing from many families and professionals. Families can still attend a P.R.I.D.E. training through Families Like Ours, or a private placement agency, as well as department trainings. Please contact us if you have any questions related to your training.

As the catalog and calendar grows with added trainings, listed offerings include:

  • Washington State PRIDE trainings
  • Online Continuing Ed trainings
  • Family and Parenting workshops and trainings
Families Like Ours continues to provide community support for pre and post adoptive, foster families and the professional team. We hope this new tool will help streamline what has become a confusing process for many. Watch over the next few months as this resource grows and expands.
 

FLO SAFE project for LGBT&Q foster youth

No single agency, program or state can reach the goal of providing a home for every at-risk youth without strategic partnerships. Families Like Ours was built on just that premise starting with the most important partner – family. The promise of Families Like Ours is our steadfast resolve to break down the barriers that prevent good, solid individuals from becoming a family for an at-risk youth. 

But it isn't just families we can help. Since 2004 FLO has been actively used in child specific recruitment, education and support of foster and adoptive families for LGBT&Q foster youth needing permanency.
 
These are not just teenagers were talking about but children from 5 – 17 years old that need welcoming, affirming families.
 
We need all the help we can get for these kids. In Washington State alone 14.5% of of current foster youth are self identifying as LGBT&Q (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning). On any given day there are between 9,700 – 12,000 foster you in Washington. That means as many as 1,700 LGBT&Q kids are at-risk and need your help!
 
Our SAFE LGBT&Q youth and family project provides direct and indirect family recruitment, support, education, case consulting and resource management mainly for Washington State LGBT&Q foster youth (if you're outside the state of WA, we may be able to help you as well).
 

How can you take action to help an LGBT&Q foster youth? 

QBC: We'd rather start with a younger child, older kids are already set in their ways and to hard to handle

Fri, 08/12/2011 - 11:49 | David's BLOG

With each Adoption 101 or PRIDE training FLO provides, along with individual counseling we hear this message from the majority of families. Before addressing this statement, first it is important to remember that each family needs to move forward with what is most comfortable for them. 

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