We are committed to your safety and will do everything we can to support you and your health. However, it is important for you to feel confident that fostering is the best for you and your family at this time. The decision is ultimately a personal one.

Your Foster Plus agency is there to provide you with training and support to help you navigate a situation like this. If someone has symptoms of COVID-19, you will first need to:

• Call a doctor right away.
• Make sure the individual stays away from other members of the household until test results are known.
• Contact your caseworker and together make a plan for the individual to get tested.

If the individual tests positive they will need to self-isolate for 14 days.

Your agency will make sure you have the training and the help to make a plan for how to navigate a situation like this. If someone has symptoms of COVID-19, you will be told immediately and families will:

• Call a doctor right away.
• Make sure the individual stays to themselves, away from other members of the household.
• Contact their caseworker and together make a plan for the individual to get tested.

If the individual tests positive they will need to self-isolate for 14 days and you will not be asked to participate in relief parenting until it is safe to do so.

You will not have to quarantine. But you will need to follow safety practices such as:

• Staying outdoors as much as possible.
• Washing hands often.
• Wearing face coverings with people they don’t live with.
• Social distancing in public.
• Sanitizing high-touch surfaces.
• Making sure visitors sleep in their own rooms, separate from others in the home.

A POD system is an arrangement between a limited number of households in order to minimize health risks during the pandemic. Important guidelines include:

• Two (sometimes three) foster families form a POD, which means they spend time only with members of that group.
• The families agree to a shared set of safety practices.
• A relief parent is assigned to the POD and supports only the families in that POD.
• Relief parents are asked to follow the same safety guidelines as the families.

Foster Plus agencies will work directly with your family to ensure that you feel comfortable before bringing a child into your home, including taking extra steps to make you feel safe.

Foster children are following the guidelines of their local school district. Some children are attending school in person, while others are distance learning. There is some support for additional in-home instruction for children with a trusted adult known to the family. 

• Foster Plus agencies request that all families follow local health and safety measures to do our best to keep the foster child in your home safe.
• Foster Plus agencies will require that your family self isolate for 10 days prior to having additional people enter your home.

• Foster Plus agencies request that all families follow local health and safety measures to do our best to keep the foster child in your home safe.
• If someone from a household is not following health and safety measures, the Foster Plus agency will ask them to self isolate for 10 days prior to conducting any relief care.

Yes. Please be sure to check with your Foster Plus agency to discuss travel plans and understand current expectations and requirements prior to finalizing plans.