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Foster Child Bill of Rights
Every child in foster care is endowed with the rights inherently belonging to all children. In addition, because of the temporary or permanent separation from and loss of parents and other family members, the child requires special safeguards, resources, and care.
Every child in foster care has the inherent right:
To be cherished by a family of his own, either his family helped by readily available services and supports to reassume his care, or an adoptive family or by plan, a continuing foster family.
To be nurtured by foster parents who have been selected to meet his individual needs, and who are provided services and supports, including specialized education, so that they can grow in their ability to enable the child to reach his potentially.
To receive sensitive, continuing help in understanding and accepting the reasons for his own family's inability to take care of him, and in developing confidence in his own self worth.
To receive continuing loving care and respect as a unique human being...a child growing in trust in himself and others.
To grow up in freedom and dignity in a neighborhood of people who accept him with understanding, respect and friendship.
To receive help in overcoming deprivation or whatever distortion in his emotional, physical, intellectual, social and spiritual growth may have resulted from his early experiences.
To receive education, training, and career guidance to prepare for a useful and satisfying life.
To receive preparation for citizenship and parenthood through interaction with foster parents and other adults who are consistent role model.
To be represented by an attorney at law in administrative or judicial proceedings with access to fair hearings and court review of decisions, so that his best interests are safeguarded.
To receive a high quality of child welfare services, including involvement of the natural parents and his own involvement in major decisions that affect his life.
Ratified in Congress Hall, Philadelphia, Saturday, April 28, 1973.
Reaffirmed during the National Focus on Foster Care Conference, Norfolk, Virginia,
Wednesday, May 4, 1983.
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11th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001. We appreciate your support!
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2008 Membership Meetings
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Saturday of the month, except August)
Saturday, January 19
Saturday, March 15
Saturday, April 19
Meetings are held at 1:00pm at CFSA, 400 6th Street, SW, Room 5133, Washington, DC
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