Foster Care Institute of Articles
Weekly Huffington Post Articles by Dr. John
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Adoption
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
When Adoption is Needed
3 Do's and Don'ts when Adopting from Foster Care
Adopting Kids from Foster Care
Aging Out
***NEW***
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
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
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
Child Sex Trafficking
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
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
Foster Care
***NEW*** 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
***NEW*** Four Things Foster Parents Want You to Know
***NEW*** Family Support for New Foster Parents
***NEW*** The Importance of Documentation for Foster Parents
***NEW*** 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 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
About Dr. John DeGarmo
***NEW*** 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
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.
Weekly Huffington Post Articles by Dr. John
Click HERE to view these articles
Adoption
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
When Adoption is Needed
3 Do's and Don'ts when Adopting from Foster Care
Adopting Kids from Foster Care
Aging Out
***NEW***
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
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
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
Child Sex Trafficking
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
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
Foster Care
***NEW*** 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
***NEW*** Four Things Foster Parents Want You to Know
***NEW*** Family Support for New Foster Parents
***NEW*** The Importance of Documentation for Foster Parents
***NEW*** 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 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
About Dr. John DeGarmo
***NEW*** 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
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.