For a child or young person, being separated from their family, sometimes their siblings, their home, and all of their familiar surroundings to go and live in an unfamiliar home with strangers, is a traumatic event. They need foster parents who can offer them a safe and nurturing home. They need foster parents who can help support them through this very difficult journey, help them understand the situation, work closely with many different professionals, show empathy to their birth family and above all, offer them patience, nurture and love.
Put yourself in their shoes, how would you feel? Your whole world changed in an instant and you may not be sure why, a strange bed, a stranger giving them their tea – you have to be patient and allow a child to heal. No matter what their situation was at home, it was their home, their family.
