Arizona foster parenting license

The foster parent and each other adult member of the household must certify on forms that are provided by the department and that are notarized whether the foster parent or other adult member of the household is awaiting trial on or has ever been convicted of any of the criminal offenses listed in section The department shall not renew a license without satisfactory proof that the foster parent or parents have completed twelve actual hours of approved ongoing foster parent training during the two-year period of licensure as set forth in section If the department determines that completing the training required in subsections B and C of this section would be a hardship to the foster parent or parents, the department may issue a provisional license for a period not to exceed six months.

A provisional license may not be renewed. Child welfare agencies that submit foster homes for licensing shall conduct an investigation of the foster home pursuant to licensing rules of the department. The department shall conduct investigations of all other foster homes. Costs for fostering and adopting Foster care In Arizona, being licensed to become a foster care parent is basically free!

Agency contact and orientation information View orientation schedule. Find a licensed agency. Post-adoption support services Locate post-adoption and guardianship support services in Arizona , including parent support groups. Information on Arizona's children In Arizona, the greatest need is for families who will care for teens and large sibling groups.

How to adopt and foster Getting started Test your knowledge Request to be contacted Envisioning your family Transracial adoption Getting approved Being trained Home study Being matched with a child Receiving a placement Forming attachments Building family relationships Finalizing an adoption State information. I have mixed feelings about this because, it can be supposed that if this is the case, it may be that the adults willing to take in children are in it for the humanity and help they can provide children On the other hand, once a child is placed and the difficulties arise and seem too much for the foster family to handle, the lack of funds only adds to the frustration and unwillingness of people to keep the children.

This is just common sense. I have a bad habit of believing in "fantasies. My bipolar neighbor has 7 Foster Kids, some are her sisters kids due to the Mom in jail.

The Foster Mom drops the f bomb at the 2 toddlers. Always screaming at them, to the point another neighbor wants to turn them in. Looks like she is getting a load of money in AZ, and it is obvious she is in it for the money. I mention the bipolar because it is obviously not managed, and so these kids get to put up with the Rollercoaster ride of it.

And if us neighbors hear the verbal abuse outside, what is going on inside the home? It is disguisting. They have enough to take the kids to Disneyland etc. What a load of garbage that AZ pays the highest rates, takes the most kids from homes, puts the kids in situations like this but, hey, they get to go to Disney. Talk about a broken system. At least they are moving after a year and a half so that the rest of the neighbors don't have to hear the 4 dogs barking all hours, the psycho Mom yelling and swearing at the kids, and the kids passing on the abuse like throwing rocks at the disabled neighbor kid.

And how is a person allowed 7 Foster kids in the 1st place. And why isn't the welfare worker talking to the neighbors to see how the foster kids are being treated? I know 2 neighbors who have written about the verbal assaults on these kids on their FB pages. Hi, In the UK fostering is considered as professional work, a lot of training and studying is involved, our children do benefit a much higher standard of care Julie, in my state of Tennessee, you have to be able to provide for yourself so I am curious how you are a "professional carer" unless you are independently wealthy I wonder how you or anyone else here do not work and use fostering as your sole income.

If foster parenting were treated as the JOB it is, the children in the system would benefit from a much higher standard of care. I have been a foster carer for 13 years, peebles it is not about money, however it is still a job!

I am a professional foster carer and take great pride in my work, us "professional carers" have to study and work very hard to to gain diploma's nvq's alongside constant training,meetings, supervison I could go on and on, we work hard and yes if wasn't paid then would be forced to work then who loses out, yes the children!

Forgetting free health insurance for th while gsmily. EBT ot foodstamps what ever your state gives out, mileage reimbursement for driving them to appointments, stipends for every holiday birthday. I don't ur4,t. Yes daycare is usually provided under vouchers in most states.

Each state however has different rules on food stamp allowance. The best way to see if it is for you is to join a facebook group or other group that will give you some insight.

Sign up to be a foster parent and they will send you to classes to prepare you for being a foster parent at least enough for you to have an idea if you will be able to handle it.

The child will also be covered under medicaid which will cover their heath care costs. I'm 26, single and looking into becoming a foster parent. I can honestly say I am not in it for the money and I know I will be paying out more than I receive.

I have a good paying, full-time job however being single my concern is can I handle a child financially. I'm just curious how much help you do actually receive. I live in Michigan so if the average amount stated in the article is true, is that monthly?

What kind of help do you receive? Food stamps, day care, etc.? I'm just trying to figure everything out. The way I see it is I have love to give. I know it will be hard saying goodbye but for however long I have that child, they will be MY child and I will love them as such. I just want to make sure I can provide for them. Looking for any insight I can get.

Pros, cons, etc.. I just want to make a difference. Nebraska very recently raised their rates. It comes up to , , or a month depending on age. It is still a tight budget. A difference can be made even if that child goes back to a horrible home. You can set an example of what a family is suppose to be.

You can show them how a parent is suppose to treat a child, you can make them feel loved even if it is just for a moment. It should offer financial compensation to help make up for what is spent taking care of them. Nothing in this article implies there should be NO compensation. These children are wards, which is why they should be treated like your own. If you treat them like they are your own they get a little moment in their crappy life where they are treated like they matter.

Honestly if you are fostering because you want children, you are not on the right track, foster parenting is a JOB; and one that you should be paid to do, I know everyone is biting there lips right now, but these kids are not "yours" they are wards of the state and as such the state holds a responsibility to you the caregiver.

These kids have been damaged in ways that most of us will never understand, they will act out in ways that make no sense to anyone but them, fostering is an emotional roller coaster that will end at some point with the child will going back to there abusive or out of control parent and there is NOTHING you can do about that! Like I said fostering should be paid and anyone that looks at it as a way to "save the children" and just want to give your love to a child, fostering can be right for you, but it is still just a job and if you get involved thinking you are going to make a difference in that child, you are in for heart break.

Sandy, it is said again and again and again here that most of us think it is perfectly understandable to need some compensation to help make it affordable. The issue isn't some compensation, the issue is when a foster parent opens their home only to get the money, then not use any of it on the foster child. My concern about becoming a foster parent is that it seems to me it would cost a lot and the child needs a lot of time. I am at medium income level and I wanted to know how much financial support you get to make sure I could do it.

Its like you wouldn't buy something without knowing if you can afford it. So I find the people shouldn't care about money posts above to be very irresponsible and delusional. And yeah orphanages were notorious for rampant child abuse so please don't push for those again.

Empathy and true understanding go far in dealing with abused children. Thankyou poster "Made".. I know single women who use this only as a means to make cash.

The kids are not raised but simply exist. No proper upbringing. What good is it for the child to be with a worthless greedy foster parent than with the original parent??? I think the money should be reduced or at least paid directly to bills somehow to weed out these characters or at least children agencies do more surprise inspections. Maybe you can't be a foster parent if your struggling financially?

Under a certain income level? What in the world is wrong with the old orphan homes? They got proper schooling, meals and a potential parent can go select a child to call their very own. Thank you Torrs. Yes I believe it is the same in most places, and of course more pay for a child with different needs. Thanks for stopping by!

I currently work in North Carolina with foster parents and foster children and I just wanted to let everyone know that there are different levels of care with different levels of pay. Also, it depends on what agency you end up going through as some agencies pay differently than others.

I would always encourage parents to look into everything before becoming a foster parent because there is a lot to it. The money is used to support the child, provide transportation, and help you cover any additional payments that they bring to the table. I think there is some assumption out there that the money is going to be enough to cover a large amount of bills, but that's just not the case.

Thanks for posting! Looking at the comments on this hub I wanted to make sure everyone knows I leave the negative comments up for a reason. Looking at a mother saying that she adopted a child from foster care and following it up with she couldn't be paid enough to do it again saddens me. The tone screams that she dislikes the child. So when I leave the negative remarks up it goes to show my very point of this article. I think both you can want to help but shouldn't you also be concern our not spending your Money.

My husband and I are foster parents of 2 children and can tell you now If you want in for the money, don't bother. You will spend more than you get and it takes forever for reimbursements to start.

You must love these children as your own and if you don't it won't last long. Be patient and do it for the kids, they are the ones suffering and displaced At the same time, no child in foster care pays those starting rates as they are all with issues. I used to volunteer at a school. The part-time school nurse had several foster children. She had even adopted several of them.

You are so right Peeples! No one should do it for the money. That nurse worked several jobs part-time when the children were in school and at night when her husband was home and her husband made a good salary. She fostered a baby with shaken baby syndrome. Children that live in foster care have issues of their own when they join a family not just medical or physical, but emotional. Raising a foster child should be about determination for that child's best interests and future. It takes a big pair of shoes to fill that need!

I found this stolen and put on two different sites! I don't know if I should contact them and ask them to take it down or what? First time for me. Maybe I need to go check out the forum! Hi peeples. I think this is a really helpful hub. Having been a foster mother, I'm very conscious of the costs associated with caring for an extra child. It certainly cost me more than I received, but I have no regrets. I'm really pleased I had the chance to help. May I suggest you follow this link, peeples.

This hub of yours features on the list. I see it from two sides and know plenty on both sides but before I begin I need to draw attention to a line in this article that those on the defense seem to miss. Also this one because every foster care caseworker tells this to foster parents up front. You are getting payment to HELP cover costs for the child. The negative stigma I am placing is on foster parents who only do it for the money.

Those who are more concerned with getting the money than taking care of the children. I volunteer as a guardian ad litem and still see the same issues I saw when I was in foster care.

I see the foster parents who dress great while the foster child is in rags that have been recycled so many times the goodwill would even trash it.

I see the children who say they are limited to how much food they can eat. These children are not in foster care because they are delinquents. They are there because they were failed by a parent and now have to pay the price and be failed by the foster care system. I'm not saying some don't become delinquents after being failed by so many, because I know some do. I had foster parents who didn't even keep running water, locked away food, and did a lot worse. NEVER in this article did I say all foster parents were bad or that no money should be provided to those who do become foster parents.

Since when has it become a negative thing to designate your career path as a way of giving back to society? My ultimate goal in life is to be able to support myself doing that which I love Wouldn't we all be able to devote more time to it if we could support ourselves in the process? Stop putting a negative stigma on foster parents because they get compensation for this already huge personal sacrifice.

I really think people should get an education before they openly discuss issues they clearly know nothing about. I am one of those career foster parent check cashers that you speak of. I work on a treatment team of therapist psychologist caseworkers but I am the one who deals with the child day to day so I am the one that they come to when it's time to make a recommendation. I didn't see a mention of therapeutic foster parenting. When I did traditional foster care, it was barely enough to compensate the costs for my pregnant foster daughter's needs.

When I found out about therapeutic foster care, then I realized there could be a way to both help the children coming into my home and sustain our household well. Travis, no one is talking bad about those who actually just want to have an idea of what they are getting in and be able to be compensated for some of what they put out.

There is a different group of people out there that DO get foster children for the sake of trying to make a profit for themselves. Maybe I should edit this article with that at the bottom, though I thought I made it clear in my last couple of paragraphs.

I googled this not because I am looking for easy money. My wife and I are both nurses we make a decent living. That said we still have a daughter at home.

We haven taken in over 5 kids that were friends of our children, in the last 15 years. We never asked for money and never received any.

If one of our girls asked they knew they had to make sacrifices to accommodate their friends. I would feel guilty making them give up certain things for us to be able to financially take on another child.

We have the room the knowledge the love and understanding to share with another child, but in today's economy I'm not sure we have the money. So for all those talking crap because some of us ask how much reimbursement a state offers maybe you should call your state representative and ask why the state keeps so much of that federal paycheck that is supposed to be to care for the children!!!!

And this is what's wrong with foster parents! It's not supposed to be a career. It's a good deed. I met plenty of those "professional" foster parents. They collected their checks and did as little as possible to actually get by and still collect the check. This also goes to show a big fault with society when helping children who have no homes becomes a "career" instead of something you do just because there is a need.

With that said, there are plenty of great foster parents out there. Those are the ones who have a heart and care more about the child than getting their check for dealing with " the pile of disorders that comes from being a kid of a parent who loses their kid.

Been foster parents for a while and the stigma of expecting to be paid is a bit of a wide net. I do expect to be paid, and I'm not ashamed to say so. Get off your high horse, being a professional foster parent is as honorable a career choice as any other, if not more since it pays less than almost any other.

I would hope that someone becomes a foster parent because they are genuine in wanting to help children in crisis. Giving and teaching a child love and seeing the child respond is the best pay in the world.

That is what is wrong in this world of ours Fostering a child is about the child, not the money. Many foster parents are almost as bad as the birth parents the child was taken from and this is infuriating. Pay is not the importance, it's the love of a child. It isn't about the money. These kids NEED people who will love, nurture, and understand them. A member in the family had foster children for 30 years and she shared that while the food and clothing stipends were helpful, there was always a child having a birthday presents and cake or needing a new wardrobe winter clothes that had to be taking care of immediately.

Thanks for the insight on the fees paid out by the States. It is a basic food and school supplies fee to help out. I have been a foster parent for over 12 years. There is a lot involved with being a foster parent. My kids were all specialized. I have to get so many hours in a year, 18 hrs. The hours are classes designed to help the parent cope and what to do when they have mental illness.

You have more problems with specialized kids. Some have gone back home and other end up in the psychiatrist office most of the time. Some have been sexually abused, as well as physically abused.

It is not easy to accept someone into your home that you have never met before, and try to help them. Every time I think that I'm going to retire, there is always another child that they need you to take into your home. Parents need to put their kids first and not last in their lives. Foster Parents have to learn how to bring up a morally fit child!

I marked you up, good research. For sure the money should not be the reason someone would choose to be a foster parent. Someone who does this should be someone who will have the money to meet the extra needs that the child will incur. I had a friend who had two foster children. And it was not a good experience. The children were middle school age and had been shuttled between foster homes for years.

She and her husband also had a number of classes they had to attend as well. On the positive side, I know two individuals who have fostered 6 children between them. The one has now adopted her little girl that stayed with her for one year.

The other one adopted a brother and sister; the other four children eventually went back to their natural parents. These families that adopted were loving patient and caring.