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Adoption

8 Heartwarming Stories of Older Children Who Finally Found Their Forever Home
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TV Shows That Get Adoption Right

Adoption: Helping Foster Children with the Transition

What People Are Getting Wrong About the Parkland Shooter & Adoption

How TV reveals today's challenges and realities of open adoption

Adoption: When Fostering Leads to Building a Family

The Real Story of Adoption from Foster Care
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When Adoption is Needed


 3 Do's and Don'ts when Adopting from Foster Care

Adopting Kids from Foster Care


Aging Out

15 Ways to Help Youth who Age Out of Foster Care

The Tragedy of Turning 18: Aging Out of Foster Care

Helping Those who Age Out of Foster Care
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Growing Too Old: Aging Out

Thousands of Foster Teens Are In Danger And Society Doesn't Care

4 Do's and Don'ts When Aging Out of Foster Care


Aging out of Foster Care


Challenges of School and Education

10 Ways Teachers Can Help Students from Foster Care

The Top 8 Ways to Help Your Foster Child in School

School: A Place of Failure for Children in Foster Care
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Foster Youth & School: The Ongoing Struggles


Helping Foster Children in School Special Blog


Success in School

5 Do's and Don'ts when Helping your Foster Children in School

Schools and Parents Part One

Schools and  Parents Part Two


Challenges Foster Children Face in Schools
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Child Sex Trafficking


Covid and Human Trafficking: How the Covid Pandemic Continues to Change Human Trafficking
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84 Children Rescued From Human Trafficking. The Truth That Continues To Shock America

How Child Sex Trafficking is Big Money in America

Modern Day Slavery DOES Exist in America: How Our Children Are Victims Today

How Children in Foster Care Fall Victim to Child Sex Trafficking

5 Ways You Can Help Stop Child Sex Trafficking

Child Pornography-A Multi Million Dollar Industry

Child Sex Trafficking

Foster Care’s Continuing Human Trafficking Problem

The Shocking Truth of Child Sex Trafficking

The Dangerous Rise of Online Child Pornography

The Reality of Child Sex Trafficking and Foster Children

Your Child Is In Danger, and You Continue to Ignore the Problem


Better Parenting Means No Pictures: Stopping Child Sex Predators

Covid 19/ Coronavirus
Foster Care and Covid: 15 Ways to Fix Foster Care During the Covid Pandemic
When parents have to be social workers and therapists, too: How coronavirus is affecting foster families


Child Abuse and the Coronavirus: How Covid 19 may Increase the Risk of Child Abuse and Neglect

Coronavirus Disrupts an Already Fragile Child Welfare System


Faith Based 

Is This The Next Great Mission Field For Today's Church?

Living Our Faith as Foster Parents


16 Ways we can Pray for Children in Foster Care

You Are Being Called To Care For Children. Will You Answer?


Working with Birth Parents: The Impact of Faith, Prayer, and Forgiveness

Building God’s Kingdom through Foster Care Ministry

Christian foster parents needed acutely, advocates assert

Willing to Help: Something the Church can do to Help Foster Care

The Question of Prayer for Foster Parents

How God is Calling us to Adopt His Children in Need

​The Church's Next Mission: Help Children in Foster Care

Why I Pray as a Foster Parent

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Foster Care

The Foster Care System Needs a Boost 

Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care, Explained 

The Awful TV Portrayal of the Foster Care System

The Year of the Foster Child


Child Welfare Around the World

The Truth About Suicide And Foster Care

International Experts Gather to Help Children in Foster Care


The Foster Care Crisis: The Shortage Of Foster Parents In America​

Foster Parent Retention Revisited

Foster Parent Retention: What are the Foster Parents Saying?

The Hidden Victims of the Opioid Crisis

The Importance of Laughter and Play for Children in Foster Care

Understanding the Behaviors Children in Foster Care Present

Ideal Childhood Development Part I

Ideal Childhood Development Part II

Helping Foster Children at Christmas

Foster Care and the Holidays

The Anatomy of Anxiety

Supervision Protects Everyone Involved

How Disney Therapy Helps Children in Need

Disney Therapy: Helping Foster Kids Heal Through Play

Foster Parenting 101: A FREE Epamphlet

A Different Home: A Time of Trauma and Loss for Children in Foster Care

Vacationing with a Foster Family

Dealing with Reactive Attachment Disorder.

Foster Care in the 1950s

A Short History of the Foster Care System

The Grace and Gifts of Rhonda Sciortino

Royal Family Kids Camp:  Camp for Foster Kids



 Foster Parenting
Experts Share Self-Care Tips for Parents

23 Totally Insane Things Parents Let Their Kids Do

23 Things Parents Used to Do That Would Horrify People Today

Experts Share 6 Things You Should Know Before Working  

12 Sleep Tips for Kids with Special Needs—from Real Parents

 Four Things Foster Parents Want You to Know


  Family Support for New Foster Parents 

 The Importance of Documentation for Foster Parents

7 phrases not to say to a foster parent—and why

Why boys are more likely to be violent, and what can we do to stop it

Five Things Every Child Should Hear

Things you should say to your kids every day

How Foster Parents Can Protect Themselves

Foster Parent Protection: More Tools

Foster Parenting: A Truth You Should Know

The Healing Power of Forgiveness

Working with Birth Parents: The Impact of Faith, Prayer, and Forgiveness

10 Ways You Can Help Children in Foster Care Without Being a Foster Parent


Helping Biological Children While Caring for Foster Children

The Life of a Foster Parent

The Ins and Outs of Foster Parent Training

Being the Role Model your Foster Child Needs

How to Be a Good Foster Parent While Being A Good Spouse


Co-Parenting with Birth Parents Part III

Co Parenting with Birth Parents Part II

4 Do's and Don'ts for your Marriage while Foster Parenting

Maintaining Solid Marriages When Foster Parenting

Co Parenting with Birth Parents Part I

3 Do's and Don'ts when Working with Biological Parents while Fostering

4 Do's and Don'ts when Working with Caseworkers

Building a Healthy Working Relationship with your Caseworker and Agency

Am I Making a Difference?

Foster Parent Training

Rules and Expectations with your Foster Child


Rest for the Weary: Respite Care



Online and Social Media Safety

***NEW***Is cyberbullying really a thing? Stay safe and protect yourself from online harassment

Is Your Child Prepared for Their First Cell Phone?

5 Experts Share Signs of Cyberbullying and Tactics for Prevention

How Today's Children Are Victims of Cyberbullying 

Do You Know What Your Child is Playing Online?

Benefits of On-Line Technology for Foster Youth

When Cyberbullies Target Foster Children

Cyberbullying and Foster Children-Beyond the Playground

 A Feeling of Control- A World of Danger

Foster Care’s Continuing Human Trafficking Problem

4 Do's and Don't when Keeping Foster Children Safe from Bullies

4 Do's and Don'ts when Protecting your Foster Child from Sexting

How to Keep Foster Kids Safe Online

Foster Parents, Think Twice Before you Post! 

The Dangers of Social Media and Foster Care 

Dangers of Online Technology eBook


Opioid Crisis

***NEW*** Babies At Risk: How the Opioid Crisis is Affecting Even the Littlest Among Us

Here’s One Way to Stop the Opioid Crisis in America’s Foster Care System

Fostering Babies and the Opioid Crisis

The Strain of the Opioid Epidemic on Families and the Foster Care System

The Gray Death: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Opioid Drug Yet


Why America’s Babies Are Suffering: Opioid Addictions Placing More Babies In Foster Care

How The Heroin Crisis Is Straining Foster Care

America Is Losing The War On Opioids, And Children Are The Real Victims

America’s Opioid Crisis: How Children Are Casualties



Transitions

Welcoming Home a New Child in Foster Care

Do You Have Everything?


Foster Parents Should Grieve When a Child Leaves Their Family

Welcoming Your Foster Child

4 Do's and Don'ts when Welcoming a Foster Child to your Home


Welcoming a Foster Child Into Your Home

4 Do's and Don'ts when Welcoming a Foster Child to your Home

Handling Grief and Loss for Foster Parents

Grief and Loss in Foster Care

Saying Goodbye in Foster Care

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About Dr. John DeGarmo

Heroes Of The Homeless Crisis: How Dr. John DeGarmo Is Helping To Prevent Young People From Becoming Homeless 
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Full House: An inside Look at Foster Care and Family


Why This Man is Thankful to be Called Daddy 

Meet Dr. John DeGarmo, Foster Care Expert

John DeGarmo and His Wife Have Taken Care of 50 Children

Dr. John DeGarmo’s Foster Care Tale of Empowerment 


Nurturing Neglected Children Through Foster Care

Why I Can’t Be My Childrens’ Friend Right Now

The Home They Need

Defining a Mission and Purpose for our Family

My Daughter’s Tragic Journey; My Heartbreak and Guilt 
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The DeGarmos Are Everyday Heroes


Dr. John DeGarmo- Passion to Make a Difference

An Australian newspaer's interview of Dr. DeGarmo

The book Fostering Love: One Foster Parent's Journey and the author Dr. DeGarmo

Dr. DeGarmo Authors Book on Experiences




The Foster Parenting Manual.  An interview with author Dr. John DeGarmo. 
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