Vacant job

Foster Parents Wanted

WE ARE PRIMARILY LOOKING FOR FOSTER PARENTS AROUND THE BORÅS, MARK, HERRLJUNGA, AND ULRICEHAMN AREAS.

Information about the Assignment

As a foster home, you will care for a child or young person in your home with support from social services and guidance from a foster care consultant. The children are aged 0-19 years. Your role is to be a safe, stable adult with the main task of supporting and integrating the child into your family and society. It is important that the family has a stable economy and a separate room for the child/youth.

As a foster home, you will take care of a child or youth in your home who needs extra support and care. The child/youth often comes from difficult circumstances. Personal suitability is of the utmost value, and experience in similar assignments is advantageous but not a necessity.

We offer continuous guidance and support to families and are always available around the clock, with a personal foster care consultant assigned to the family.

Foster parents receive compensation for the assignment equivalent to an average part-time salary.

Investigation

To work as a foster home, your family will undergo an investigation by trained consultants. In-depth interviews, home visits, and background checks from criminal and suspicion registers, social registers, the Enforcement Authority, and the Transport Agency will be conducted.

After a successful investigation, a matching investigation will also be conducted to see if the placed child/teenager matches your family.

Our comprehensive investigation is done for both your sake and the sake of the placed child/youth.

Our task is to do everything we can to ensure that a child/youth gets a good foster home where they can feel safe, develop, and grow as a person. Unfortunately, research has shown that many placed children and youth have suffered in their foster homes over the years; we obviously want to avoid this and ensure that the individuals we place have a good experience in their foster homes.

An investigation is also important for your family; by getting to know you during the investigation process, we can make a good match with a child/youth that fits with you. We want to provide you as a foster home with good conditions for the assignment.

More about Our Company

YogaKloster is a retreat farm in the countryside just outside Borås. We have a broad community engagement, and part of our work beyond the retreat farm is to investigate and guide adults who take in children and youth as foster homes. We call this part of our operations YK-Foster Homes.

YK-Foster Homes has been working for several years to guide and support families in a foster care assignment. Our mission is to seek out, investigate, and then guide foster parents who take in children and youth in crisis.

The work in the foster homes is conducted as a social pedagogical effort in close collaboration between social services, the foster home, and YK-Foster Homes. The basic idea of the assignment with the placed child/youth is based on the premise that the individual develops in interaction with other people, environmental factors, and various professional roles. By creating a safe base with a good foster home investigated in accordance with the National Board of Health and Welfare's guidelines, YK-Foster Homes offers a path for youth towards an increased ability to live independently.

YK-Foster Homes focuses on providing sustainable, safe, stable foster homes that open their hearts and homes to children and youth in need.

YogaKloster AB has a permit from IVO (the Health and Social Care Inspectorate) to conduct foster care activities.

To Apply

Please send your CVs (if you are two adults, we want CVs from both) and a personal letter describing your family and why you want to become a foster home to our email: [email protected].

We continuously accept applications and investigate foster parents.

Feel free to read more about the assignment at: https://www.yogakloster.se/familjehem (https://www.yogakloster.se/familjehem)