Can foster parents work outside the home?
The Scott County Foster Care Program has working parents and stay-at-home parents who serve many types of children. Each child’s situation must be evaluated individually and some children have needs that require a full-time at-home parent. Working parents must have some flexibility in their work schedule so that the foster children can be transported to scheduled visitations, appointments, etc. which typically occur during regular working hours. As a working parent you need to develop a child care plan that includes after-school care and care for school vacations and holidays as foster children must be supervised by an adult 24 hours a day.

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1. Do I have to own my own home to do foster care?
2. What kind of experience or training do I have to have for foster care?
3. Do foster children need their own bedrooms?
4. Can a single person be a foster care provider?
5. Can I choose the age group?
6. As a foster care provider, would I be responsible for medical bills accrued by the individual in place in my care?
7. If I have a child in placement, will the family know where the child is? May they have contact with their family?
8. Can foster parents adopt the children in their care?
9. How long do children stay in foster care?
10. What are foster parents paid?
11. Can foster parents work outside the home?
12. Will I meet the child before he/she is placed in my home?
13. Once I am licensed, how long will it take to get a foster child placed in my home?
14. Can single people apply to be foster parents?
15. What are the requirements for transporting children?
16. Will I get to choose the age and/or sex of the child placed in my home?
17. What qualities should I possess to become a foster parent?