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Dee Wilson Plans of Safe Care Since 2016, the federal Child Abuse and Prevention Act (CAPTA) has required that, a) hospitals notify or report to
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We bring the voice of lived experience to the foster care table. We are current and former caregivers working with others to develop programs that support families with children impacted by foster care.
Please remember to keep confidential and case specific information out of the communications with FPAWS.
Family Time Network supervisors spent 34,236 minutes and 19,529.9 miles driven transporting children
FPAWS Volunteers Staff spent 2692 hours in meetings last year.
Our support staff spent 7439 minutes last year supporting families. Tuesday and Wednesday are the most popular days to receive calls.
We provide 152 of possible education hours each year for families
My wife and I have been fostering children here in Washington State for 14 years. We started as a kinship family and then became licensed foster parents in 2010, after falling in love with making a difference in the lives of the children we serve. We were introduced to FPAWS during that transition, which has been an incredible support and phenomenal pillar to us and the foster community.
Dear FPAWS, I am so thankful to attend and participate in seminars offered by the Foster Parent Association of Washington State. It takes a lot of courage and patience to be a relative care provider. There are a lot of complications and pressures when you take relative children. Thank you again for being an advocate, guide and mentor for relative caretakers who love and care for the children entrusted to their care!
FPAWS is a unique agency whose advocacy is child centered and strength based. It is true that FPAWS is a support to foster parents, but also grounded in”best practice” for children. Having the approach allows FPAWS to meet foster parent where they are and help them strengthen and improve practice.
Promote self-efficacy of caregivers, children and their families.
FPAWS believes all children are entitled to a safe and nurturing family experience, and families recruited to provide such experiences deserve to be retained, respected and supported by the community.
FPAWS is a non-profit corporation chartered in January 1976 providing support and services to foster families throughout the State of Washington. We are a registered 501(c) 3, EIN 23-7300163, and a state affiliate of the National Foster Parent Alliance.
Today FPAWS is a support and advocacy organization representing adoptive/foster/kinship and birth parent voices at the Regional, State and National levels.
Dee Wilson Plans of Safe Care Since 2016, the federal Child Abuse and Prevention Act (CAPTA) has required that, a) hospitals notify or report to
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To whom it may concern,My family and our foster child attended the conference. We have nothing but great things to say about it. The education provided to us was very helpful.However, the most valuable thing that my family took away from this event was that. It provided a place for our son and others to have being in foster care the norm. I overheard a 12 year old boy asking another boy about why they are in foster care so casually. That conversation wouldn't happen in normal day life. That was truly impactful for me.Thank you!