About the foster home model for children
The foster home model is an alternate model to avoid institutionalising of children.
2 organisations that are working in the area of Foster Care in Mumbai are:
1. Family Service Center (www.fscmumbai.org)
2. Indian Association for the Promotion of Adoption and Child Welfare
(www.iapacw.org)
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FOSTER CARE
Foster care is an important non-institutional service for the child, whose biological family is unable to care for it, for a short or an extended period of time, due to illness, death, desertion or any other crisis situation. An alternate foster family is identified who will provide temporary or long term care for this child so as to avoid institutionalization. Foster parents are identified and approved after a detailed home study is undertaken. Foster parents may be either relatives, neighbours, or friends who are from a similar socioeconomic background.
Family Service Center has been a pioneer agency in the field of foster care in the country.
Currently the agency operates the Balsangopan Yojana which is the foster care scheme of the Government of Maharashtra.
Children relinquished for adoption are cared for by suitable foster families living in Mumbai. The foster homes are supervised by the social workers to ensure that the child is nurtured in a loving family environment until
adoption.
An Adoptive Parents Support Group has also been initiated by Family Service Centre, which seeks to bring adoptive families together to share experiences, discuss and deal with pertinent issues related to adoption. The Centre also co-ordinates and networks with other voluntary and Government organisations for policy formulations
and development of the adoption programme.
from: https://www.karmayog.org/ngo/fsc/upload/189/familyservicecentre.pdf
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Foster Family Care – For children awaiting adoption
a) Recruitment of suitable foster families for children awaiting adoption.
b) Programmes for the foster families for promoting quality care to the children.
c) Support, monitoring and supervision of the foster placements.
IAPA does not have a residential institution for the child’s care. Instead, the children awaiting adoption are placed in care with foster families, for individualized, personal care.. The child stays in the foster family untill such time that a suitable permanent family is identified for adoption/guardianship and the mandated social and legal process is
completed.
from www.iapacw.org
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We would like to have a list of all NGOs who undertake Foster Care, for children awaiting adoption. (all over India)
If there have been any comparative studies done on Foster Care vs.
Children’s Homes, we would like to have information about such studies and research.
Please send any information on the above to info@karmayog.org
Thanks,
www.karmayog.org