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The primary goals of foster care in Humboldt County are the physical, emotional, and social protection, care, and growth of each child.
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Support coordination, cooperation and open communication among all agencies providing services to families and children that emphasize timely actions and that eliminate redundancy, including.
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Programs which focus on the child, such as CASA, and which address mental health and wellness.
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Programs such as the Homebuilder Model and Homemaker Services that emphasize birth and resource family stability.
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Support policies to reduce psychological disruption of the child.
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Support efforts to ensure compatible matches of child and foster home by increasing the number of licensed foster homes available to children in need.
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Provide enough emergency placements for the number of children needing placement.
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Support family reunification when it is in the best interest of the child.
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Support separate staff positions for recruiting, training, assisting, and retaining foster parents.
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Support public education to inform citizens of the need for foster parents.
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Support a grievance procedure in which biological and foster parents can address concerns without fear of reprisal.
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Support for adequately funded, comprehensive, culturally appropriate services, including:
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Respite/recreational/educational opportunities for children and birth/resource families.
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Recognition of the unique needs of older resource families.
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Providers of legal services and health care.
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Support appropriate educational services from pre-school to higher education.
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Require adequately funded rigorous adherence to federal and state laws pertaining to children in foster care, including the Indian Child Welfare Act and subsequent legislation.
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Encourage efforts to place children in supportive environments, with attention cultural identity and gender.
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Support efforts to ensure that foster children of legal age are encouraged to register to vote.