Foster Parents Sought

Foster Parents Sought

WE ARE PRIMARILY SEEKING FOSTER PARENTS IN THE AREAS AROUND BORÅS, MARK, HERRLJUNGA, AND ULRICEHAMN.

Information about the assignment

As a foster home, you care for a child or young person in your home with support from social services and guidance from a foster care consultant. The children are aged 0-19 years. Your role is to be safe, stable adults with the main task of supporting and integrating the child into your family and society. It is important that the family has stable finances and a separate room for the child/youth.

As a foster home, you care for a child or youth in your home who is in need of extra support and care. The child/youth often comes from difficult circumstances. Personal suitability is of the highest value, and experience with similar assignments is meritorious but not a necessity.

We offer guidance and support to the families continuously and are always available around the clock, and there is a personal foster care consultant assigned to the family.

The foster parents/parent receive compensation for the assignment equivalent to an average part-time salary.

Investigation

To work as a foster home, you as a family undergo an investigation by trained consultants. In-depth interviews, home visits, and extracts from criminal and suspicion registers, the social register, the Enforcement Authority, and the Swedish Transport Agency are conducted.

After a approved investigation, a matching investigation is also done to see if the placed child/teenager matches with you as a family.

Our comprehensive investigation is done both for your sake and for the sake of the placed child/youth.

Our task is to do everything we can to ensure that a child/youth gets a good foster home where they can feel safe, develop, and grow as a person. Unfortunately, research has shown that many placed children and youth over the years have suffered in their foster homes; we naturally want to avoid this and ensure that the individuals we place fare well in their foster homes.

An investigation is also important for you as a family; by getting to know you during the investigation process, we have the opportunity to make a good match with a child/youth who fits with you. We want to give you as a foster home good conditions for the assignment.

More about our company

YogaKloster is a retreat farm in the countryside just outside Borås. We have broad community engagement, and part of our work beyond the retreat farm is to investigate and guide adults who receive children and youth as foster homes. We call this part of our operations YK-foster homes.

YK-foster homes have been working for several years to guide and support families in a foster care assignment. Our assignment involves seeking, investigating, and then guiding foster parents who receive children and youth in crisis.

The work in the foster homes is conducted as socio-pedagogical work in close cooperation between social services, the foster home, and YK-foster homes. The basic idea for the assignment with the placed child/youth is based on the individual developing in interaction with other people, environmental factors, and various professional roles. By YK-foster homes creating a secure base with a good foster home investigated in accordance with the Social Board's guidelines, a path is offered for the youth towards increased ability for an independent life.

YK-foster homes focus on providing sustainable, safe, stable foster homes that with big hearts open their homes to children and youth in need.

YogaKloster AB has a permit from IVO (the Health and Social Care Inspectorate) to operate foster care activities.

To apply

Send your CVs (if you are two adults, we want CVs from both of you) and a personal letter where you describe your family and why you want to become a foster home.

We receive applications and investigate foster parents continuously.