Foster Family/Caregivers (Contractor)

Pacific Coast Community Resources•Surrey, BC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Foster Care is a Family Home care model that provides safe, nurturing, community-based, shared living arrangements for children and youth with diverse abilities. The service is provided through you, the contractors, who welcome a child/youth into their home, offering a warm, inclusive environment and customized, person-centred support. A supported person will live in unique and varied family care arrangements such as sharing a house, or an apartment or living in a suite within the home. This model of support creates opportunities for natural relationships to develop and promotes the full citizenship of the person through inclusion within their community. A Foster family may assist with life skills, meal preparation, personal care, medication administration, relationship building, and accessing community resources. The key to a successful, long-term arrangement is matching a person with a Foster Family based on a variety of factors including personality, lifestyle, and interests. PCCR collaborates with MCFD social workers, Family and other professionals in the care team to determine the ideal caregivers for the supported children/youth. Often picking the family and environment that best fits their unique interest, support requirements and preferences.

Requirements

Commitment to the values and principles of inclusive community living
Previous experience fostering and supporting a person with diverse abilities
Sincere desire to provide a stable, safe, comfortable, and inclusive home
Good problem solving/communication skills
Ability to be flexible, adaptable, organized, and accepting
Available space/room in the house to welcome a child/youth (children are needing to be on the same floor as the adults in the house)
Undergo a comprehensive screening process which includes reference and criminal record checks as well as the SAFE home study.