03/29/2024
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Foster CareHow do you define dedication? Bladen County DSS feels foster and/or adoptive parents are the epitome of dedication.

Foster parents are volunteers from the community who open their homes and provide love and care to abused and neglected children. These nurturing, caring, responsible parents are the missing pieces in foster children’s lives.

The absence of devoted and loving caregivers is what makes foster care a necessity for more than 14,000 children in North Carolina. It’s why Bladen County DSS has found itself with more children needing temporary substitute family care than skilled and caring foster families to meet that need.

Foster families give children the best possible chance to grow and heal.

Foster parenting is not easy, but Bladen County DSS will train and support you throughout the process.

Bladen County DSS will have a TIPS/MAPP Open House on Thursday, June 1 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Bladen County Department of Social Services at 208 East McKay Street in Elizabethtown. Classes will begin Thursday, June 8 and will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. through July 18.

If interested to attend or for information about the program, call LeAnne Graham at (910) 862-6848 or Sheila Manuel at (910) 862-6830.

TIPS/MAPP TRAINING SCHEDULE

June 8: Welcome to TIPS-MAPP/Family Foster Care and Adoption

June 13: Where the MAPP leads; A Foster Care and Adoption Experience

June 15: Losses and Gains: The Need to be a Loss Expert

June 20: Helping Children with Attachments

June 22: Helping Children Learn Healthy Behaviors

June 27: Helping Children with Birth Family Connections

June 29: Gains and Losses: Helping Children Leave

July 6: Understanding the Impact of Fostering/Adopting

July 11: Perspectives – Teamwork and Partnership

July 13: Graduation: Endings and Beginnings – Panel

July 18: CPR/First Aid/Bloodborne Pathogens

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