Programs
Intake Procedure & 24-Hour Hot-Line #
Foster Parents can call 1- 646 - 355 - 0434. Leave your name and number and someone will get back to you within 24 hours.
If you are a foster parent and would like to get involved in this organization, contact Dorin Matthews at 1-646-425-6526 or Sylvia Hooper at 1-917-536-1377.
Be the voice in your community. Act now! These children need our help.
Our organization aims to provide a place for foster parents and children to receive adequate services. We provide advocates to foster parents, in turn helping the children in their care. We also work to provide youths who have 'aged out' of the child welfare system, with the services they are entitled to receive. We want to work to build relationships between agencies and foster parents, to ensure that parents and children in the foster care system receive the services they need. Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Inc is a 501C3 non-profit organization, founded in 2008. FPA provides community resources, educational programs, and support and training services for foster parents and children in the child welfare system.
Intake Procedure & 24-Hour Hot-Line #
Foster Parents can call 1- 646 - 355 - 0434. Leave your name and number and someone will get back to you within 24 hours.
If you are a foster parent and would like to get involved in this organization, contact Dorin Matthews at 1-646-425-6526 or Sylvia Hooper at 1-917-536-1377.
Be the voice in your community. Act now! These children need our help.
Our organization aims to provide a place for foster parents and children to receive adequate services. We provide advocates to foster parents, in turn helping the children in their care. We also work to provide youths who have 'aged out' of the child welfare system, with the services they are entitled to receive. We want to work to build relationships between agencies and foster parents, to ensure that parents and children in the foster care system receive the services they need. Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Inc is a 501C3 non-profit organization, founded in 2008. FPA provides community resources, educational programs, and support and training services for foster parents and children in the child welfare system.
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Current FPA programs
Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Inc has created the following programs to promote involvement, and supporting the needs of the foster parents and children in foster care within the community. If you are a foster, kinship or adoptive parent, Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Inc is here to work for you. FPA provides training in advocacy skills to help foster, kinship and adoptive parents to become stronger advocates for the children in their homes and to develop a network of peer advocacy in the foster parent community. We provide individual case advocacy for families and have a systemic advocacy agenda directed exclusively at issues identified by our foster and adoptive parent community. To support, empower and advocate for foster, kinship and adoptive parents of children, we want foster parents to be involved in our process. Foster parents should be aware of the impact the political arena has on child welfare practices and should advocate for changes in policy and legislation to improve social conditions in order to meet basic needs and promote social justice.
FPA Partnership Coordinator Program
We provide foster parents with a Partnership Coordinator who will be working with you and the child(ren) that is/are in your home.
The Working Partnership Coordinator provides:
► Peer Work Support Groups
► Assessment & Information Meeting Support Groups
► Empowerment Programs for Foster Parents
► Announced programs and services available to foster parents & children in foster care.
► Court Advocacy & Legal Referral
► Educational Workshops
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Organizational Advocacy
FPA works towards systemic improvement in the child welfare system by identifying issues that are barriers to our families in receiving the necessary supports and services for the children in their homes. Organizational advocacy areas include but are not limited to:
• Health and Mental Health advocacy
• Policy Advocacy
• Court Advocacy
• Educational Advocacy
Other Areas of Focus
> Inclusion of foster parents into decision-making about the children in their homes and into policies and regulations that effect them.
> Issues of practice and relationships between foster parents and their agencies.
> Individual Advocacy: FPA provides individual advocacy and troubleshooting for foster, kinship and adoptive parents of children who are having trouble accessing quality services for their children, or who need support and guidance.
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Foster Parent Training
FPA provides individual training sessions on topics related to advocacy and access of services. Trainings may be "stand-alone" half-day or day-long workshops.
Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Inc will be working to facilitate co-parenting between foster and birth parents. FPA hosts advocacy training opportunities to empower foster, kinship and adoptive parents of New York children, so that they may become better advocates for the children in their homes and for each other. In addition, foster parents who complete this training program become eligible to become members of FPA foundation. You will be able to form committees that will come together and speak out against inadequate services. Our Partnership Coordinators facilitate workshops for social workers and other child welfare professionals on how to better work in partnership with foster parents, to provide better service for children and families.
Presently, these are the programs we will offer:
"Be the Difference Program" for foster parents
Provides seminars, trainings, and workshops to provide awareness and education to foster parents. The Partnership Coordinators will provide advice and communicate the agency's policies to the foster parents. Partnership Coordinators will also attend meetings, court appearances and FamilyTeam Conferences with the foster parent. The focus of the FPA program is to promote empowerment, education, and support for foster parents.
Working Partnership Coordinators
is designed to match foster parents with mentors who will provide friendship, support and positive role modeling. Partnership Coordinators will be on call 24hrs to offer support to foster parents. This service offers foster parents the ability to reach out to professionals during critical times – when most problems begin.
Foster Parents Committee
Foster Parents need to get involved and stick together to fight for changes. Join our Foster Parent Committee, today! We need your voice to be heard in the community, in order to help children in the foster care system get better services.
• Designed to help foster parents during crisis and provide support services
• Empowers foster parents with knowledge and awareness about agency policies & procedures.
• Ensures foster parents are receiving services for the child(ren) in their home
• Gets other foster parents on board to lobby for policy change
Once you are a member you will be required to be involved in the organization. This includes:
• Be involved with your committee
• Pay your membership fees
• Be involved in lobbying for change
• Know your rights as a foster parent
• Stay informed about foster care policies
• Advocate for children!
• Attend committee meetings
Workshops, Trainings, Recruitment
Foster parents are encouraged to participate in several workshops and trainings. Workshops and Trainings will cover topics and issues such as:
• Know your rights as a foster parent
• How placement affects children
• Being prepared when a child is placed
• Agency policies
• Services that are provided to children in care
• Advocacy for children in care
• Adopting a child
• Parent's rights
• Working as a team, parent & foster parent
• Family Team conferences.
• The importance of foster parents attending court hearings
• Foster Parents Bill of Rights
What Ever It Takes Youth Program
Provides youths with the educational workshops about their rights while in the foster care system. Provides youths with a youth advocate that they can talk to about addressing issues and getting the services that they need. Provides youths ages 14-23 with the resources that they need to succeed.
The objective of these workshops is to educate and inform foster parents and youths regarding problems and issues they face on a daily basis, and to work with the foster care agencies to help create solutions to the problems foster parents face. Our mission is to help enhance the quality of life for foster parents, children in foster care and aged-out youths.
If you are a foster parent and would like to get involved in this organization, contact Dorin Matthews at 1-646-425-6526 or Sylvia Hooper at 1-917-536-1377. Be the voice in your community. Act now! These children need our help.
FPA Partnership Coordinator Program
We provide foster parents with a Partnership Coordinator who will be working with you and the child(ren) that is/are in your home.
The Working Partnership Coordinator provides:
► Peer Work Support Groups
► Assessment & Information Meeting Support Groups
► Empowerment Programs for Foster Parents
► Announced programs and services available to foster parents & children in foster care.
► Court Advocacy & Legal Referral
► Educational Workshops
_______________________________________________________________________
Organizational Advocacy
FPA works towards systemic improvement in the child welfare system by identifying issues that are barriers to our families in receiving the necessary supports and services for the children in their homes. Organizational advocacy areas include but are not limited to:
• Health and Mental Health advocacy
• Policy Advocacy
• Court Advocacy
• Educational Advocacy
Other Areas of Focus
> Inclusion of foster parents into decision-making about the children in their homes and into policies and regulations that effect them.
> Issues of practice and relationships between foster parents and their agencies.
> Individual Advocacy: FPA provides individual advocacy and troubleshooting for foster, kinship and adoptive parents of children who are having trouble accessing quality services for their children, or who need support and guidance.
_______________________________________________________________________
Foster Parent Training
FPA provides individual training sessions on topics related to advocacy and access of services. Trainings may be "stand-alone" half-day or day-long workshops.
Foster Parent Advocacy Foundation Inc will be working to facilitate co-parenting between foster and birth parents. FPA hosts advocacy training opportunities to empower foster, kinship and adoptive parents of New York children, so that they may become better advocates for the children in their homes and for each other. In addition, foster parents who complete this training program become eligible to become members of FPA foundation. You will be able to form committees that will come together and speak out against inadequate services. Our Partnership Coordinators facilitate workshops for social workers and other child welfare professionals on how to better work in partnership with foster parents, to provide better service for children and families.
Presently, these are the programs we will offer:
"Be the Difference Program" for foster parents
Provides seminars, trainings, and workshops to provide awareness and education to foster parents. The Partnership Coordinators will provide advice and communicate the agency's policies to the foster parents. Partnership Coordinators will also attend meetings, court appearances and FamilyTeam Conferences with the foster parent. The focus of the FPA program is to promote empowerment, education, and support for foster parents.
Working Partnership Coordinators
is designed to match foster parents with mentors who will provide friendship, support and positive role modeling. Partnership Coordinators will be on call 24hrs to offer support to foster parents. This service offers foster parents the ability to reach out to professionals during critical times – when most problems begin.
Foster Parents Committee
Foster Parents need to get involved and stick together to fight for changes. Join our Foster Parent Committee, today! We need your voice to be heard in the community, in order to help children in the foster care system get better services.
• Designed to help foster parents during crisis and provide support services
• Empowers foster parents with knowledge and awareness about agency policies & procedures.
• Ensures foster parents are receiving services for the child(ren) in their home
• Gets other foster parents on board to lobby for policy change
Once you are a member you will be required to be involved in the organization. This includes:
• Be involved with your committee
• Pay your membership fees
• Be involved in lobbying for change
• Know your rights as a foster parent
• Stay informed about foster care policies
• Advocate for children!
• Attend committee meetings
Workshops, Trainings, Recruitment
Foster parents are encouraged to participate in several workshops and trainings. Workshops and Trainings will cover topics and issues such as:
• Know your rights as a foster parent
• How placement affects children
• Being prepared when a child is placed
• Agency policies
• Services that are provided to children in care
• Advocacy for children in care
• Adopting a child
• Parent's rights
• Working as a team, parent & foster parent
• Family Team conferences.
• The importance of foster parents attending court hearings
• Foster Parents Bill of Rights
What Ever It Takes Youth Program
Provides youths with the educational workshops about their rights while in the foster care system. Provides youths with a youth advocate that they can talk to about addressing issues and getting the services that they need. Provides youths ages 14-23 with the resources that they need to succeed.
The objective of these workshops is to educate and inform foster parents and youths regarding problems and issues they face on a daily basis, and to work with the foster care agencies to help create solutions to the problems foster parents face. Our mission is to help enhance the quality of life for foster parents, children in foster care and aged-out youths.
If you are a foster parent and would like to get involved in this organization, contact Dorin Matthews at 1-646-425-6526 or Sylvia Hooper at 1-917-536-1377. Be the voice in your community. Act now! These children need our help.
Small Talk Big Issues Youth Program
is open to youths 14-18 years old who are currently in or who have recently been in foster care. Program will meet after school (5:00pm-7:30pm) in Manhattan. Youths work on different projects and use social media to get the word out. Be that voice in your community. Get Involved. Just come and have fun.
Call Sylvia Hooper at 1-917-536-1377
or email us at unitedfosterparents@yahoo.com
is open to youths 14-18 years old who are currently in or who have recently been in foster care. Program will meet after school (5:00pm-7:30pm) in Manhattan. Youths work on different projects and use social media to get the word out. Be that voice in your community. Get Involved. Just come and have fun.
Call Sylvia Hooper at 1-917-536-1377
or email us at unitedfosterparents@yahoo.com
Free legal Consultation
If you are a foster parent and need legal advise. We can provide you with a lawyer who will give you consultation for free. All appointments must be schedule.
If you are a foster parent and need legal advise. We can provide you with a lawyer who will give you consultation for free. All appointments must be schedule.