Foster Parents Wanted

Foster Parents Wanted

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

Information about the assignment

As a foster family, 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 family, 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 in similar assignments is meritorious but not a necessity.

We offer continuous guidance and support to the families and are always available 24/7, with a personal foster care consultant assigned to the family.

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

Investigation

To work as a foster family, 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 Transport Agency are conducted.

After a successful investigation, a matching investigation is also done to see if the placed child/teenager matches your family.

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

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 have suffered in their foster homes over the years; 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 family 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 families. We call that part of our operation YK-foster homes.

YK-foster homes have been working for several years to guide and support families in a foster care assignment. Our mission is to search for, investigate, and then guide foster parents who receive children and youth in crisis.

The work in the foster homes is conducted as a socio-pedagogical effort in close collaboration between social services, the foster home, and YK-foster homes. The basic idea for the assignment with the placed child/youth is that the individual develops in interaction with other people, environmental factors, and various professional roles. By YK-foster homes creating a safe base with a good foster home investigated in accordance with the National Board of Health and Welfare's guidelines, a path is offered for the youth toward an increased ability for an independent life.

YK-foster homes' focus is on providing sustainable, safe, stable foster homes that with great heart open their homes to children and youth in need.

YogaKloster AB has a permit from IVO (the Inspection for Care and Social Services) to operate foster care services.

To apply

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

We accept applications and investigate foster parents continuously.

Feel free to read more about the assignment.