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by Omni Family of Services | Dec 9, 2019 | News

It’s a frequently asked question: “Now that I’m a licensed foster parent, how long before I receive my first foster care placement?” Much like many of the other commonly asked foster care questions—including How Much Do Foster Parents Get Paid?—there isn’t a simple,...
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by Omni Family of Services | Nov 20, 2019 | News

This year National Adoption Day will take place on Saturday, November 23, the highlight of National Adoption Month, which provides an opportunity for organizations like ours to help raise awareness about the number of children in foster care—and the rewards of...
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by Omni Family of Services | Nov 7, 2019 | News

The difference between foster care and adoption is: foster care is meant to be temporary, while adoption is permanent. As we noted in our Foster FAQ, “foster care is the temporary placement of children outside their own homes, [which] occurs because of parenting...
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by Omni Family of Services | Oct 29, 2019 | News

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the number of children served by the foster care and adoption system has increased every year since 2012, up from 635,000 to at least 691,000 today. But the national numbers only tell part of the...
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by Omni Family of Services | Oct 16, 2019 | News

Earlier this year, the Commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS) told the state’s governor that “since 2016, there’s been a 10.3 percent increase in the number of kids in foster care.” Commissioner Jennifer Nichols made the statement in the...
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by Omni Family of Services | Sep 24, 2019 | News

A frequently asked question among prospective foster parents is: What is the difference between therapeutic foster care and traditional foster care? What is Therapeutic Foster Care? In a nutshell, therapeutic foster care (sometimes referred to as treatment foster...
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by Omni Family of Services | Jun 10, 2019 | News

This is another frequently asked question among prospective foster parents, right along with  “How much does a foster parent get paid?” Much like the payment question, there isn’t a simple, straightforward answer. It depends in part on the state in which you are...
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