“Open up your heart and give love and you’ll have that forever.” ~ Sheila, former Aspiranet foster teen

Every day, Aspiranet receives referrals of teens who are in need of a supportive and loving family to provide them with the opportunity to reach their full potential. Too often, teens wait longer than their younger counterparts for foster family placement, are moved around more frequently, and are separated from younger siblings – all of these challenges faced mainly because of their age. Teens are children too, and they need and deserve the same level of care as younger children.

Aspiranet needs your support! Make 2010 the year that you become a foster parent to a teen!

Aspiranet’s Goal in Placing Foster Teens

Aspiranet is working hard to ensure that teens are placed in foster homes that will provide them with a sense of stability – a really important factor at this stage in their lives, as some of the greatest impressions made in a person’s life are during the teenage years. Aspiranet’s priority is to maintain stable foster care placement for teens and their foster families, providing teens with a source of emotional support during their foster care years and after they leave the system at 18 years of age.

In providing each teen with a healthful foster family environment, we hope to break the negative behavioral patterns found in families from which foster children come. This instills healthy behavior in foster teens, influencing their future success as independent adults as well as future parents.

How We Help You Be Successful

As an Aspiranet foster parent, you can give a teen what he or she needs more than anything: a sense of family and a place to belong. You can create change in your community by helping raise children who feel loved. We will be with you every step of the way. Here are some of the ways in which Aspiranet will help you to be a successful foster parent to a teenager.

24/7 “On-Call” Assistance: Aspiranet provides assistance to every foster family when needed.

Regular Consultation: Aspiranet Social Workers conduct regular in-home visits with foster families so as to assist each family in implementing each child’s service plan.

All Available Information: When a child is presented to an Aspiranet foster family, information is made available to the family on the child’s situation. A successful placement requires honesty and integrity between foster parents and Aspiranet. Aspiranet will facilitate a smooth placement of a child into a foster home.

Monthly Board & Care Reimbursement: Aspiranet provides assistance to each foster family with the cost of providing for the needs of each foster child.

Lifelong Connections Positively Impact the Future

By fostering a teen, you will take the first step in helping a foster teen grow up to become a successful adult member of society upon emancipation at the age of 18. We have found that not only does a caring foster family make a positive lifelong impact on a teen, the teen makes a positive lifelong impact on the foster family.

Picture the rewards of believing in the future of a teen and building dreams together.