Vol. 1, No. 1 • Spring 1997

Foster Parent Association Focuses on Helping Children

	Foster parent association focuses on helping children
	Parent to parent
	The ABC's of you
	Training requirements for foster parents
	Training topics for new foster parents
	Foster parents ask DSS
	Awaken the sleeping student
	Helping you kids behave while shopping
	Does you child have special needs?
	Kids' Pages (essays, poetry and artwork from North Carolina's foster kids)
	The other mother
	Thumbs Up!, 40 ways to tell your child "great job!"
	"Ready or not, here I come"
	Ignoring: An effective way to change some behaviors
	Effective ignoring
	What would you do?
	Recipe exchange: Harriet's Mexican Lasagna
	Foster care: A glossary of terms

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