Fostering a disabled child
The role of an independent fostering agency
How to foster
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What happens when a child is taken into care?
Becoming A Foster Carer
Benefits of becoming a foster parent
What is a Care Leaver?
What is a Foster Carer?
What is Foster Care?
Do I become a Foster Carer?
Fostering Regulations
How to Foster a Child
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How to foster – everything you ever wanted to know
Facts about Foster Care
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Foster Care Handbook
Foster Carer Job Description
Changing IFA - Transferring to Capstone
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Foster Care Statistics
Fostering Assessment
Fostering Outcomes
Fostering Stories
Fostering Children UK
Children needing Fostering
Reasons for a child to be taken into Care
Fostering as a Career
Looked after Children
Top transferable job skills to become a foster carer
Can I foster if...?
Mythbusting the top 10 Foster Care Myths
Can I foster if I am disabled?
LGBT Fostering Mythbusting
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Can I Foster A Child?
Can you Foster and Work?
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Fostering as a Single Parent
LGBT Family and Foster Care
Fostering across Cultures
Empty Nest Syndrome and Foster Care
10 things you can do when your Children fly the nest
Can I Foster?
Fostering Babies - Myth Busting
Focusing on Parent & Child Fostering
Fostering Siblings
Fostering Teenagers
Fostering Teenagers - Breaking down the Myths
Fostering Unaccompanied and Asylum Seeking Children
Mother and Baby Foster Placements
Private Fostering
Therapeutic Fostering - Multi-disciplinary Assessment & Treatment Service (MATS)
Young Children Fostering Placements
Difference between short and long-term fostering
Children who foster: impact of fostering on birth children
How to prepare your home for a foster child
Tips for coping when foster placements end
Tips for foster parents during Coronavirus
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How to deal with empty nest syndrome
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Tips and advice on fostering with a disability
10 tips on connecting with your Foster Child
Fostering versus Adoption - What's the difference?
How Fostering can change a future
How to adopt from Foster Care
How to encourage children to read in Foster Care
How to prepare a Foster Child's bedroom
Online grooming - unwanted contact and how to identify it
Reading and storytelling with Babies and young Children
Supporting Children's Learning
Technology and Internet Safety advice
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The impact of early childhood traumas on adolescence and adulthood
Tips for coping with attachment disorders in Foster Children
Tips for supporting reunification in Foster Care
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What is sexual abuse and sexual violence
Foster Child behaviour management strategies
Foster Parent Advice: What to expect in your first year of fostering
Capstone's twelve tips at Christmas
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Celebrating our Children and Young People
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This might be when they first move into their own home or when taking the step into higher education, leaving for college or university.
It can be a difficult time, a challenging combination of pride seeing your children becoming independent – paving their own way, and worry that you will miss the closeness you once had, the quietness of the house or what you will do with the time you spent raising them. Often parents find they have more time to spare and wonder what they can do to best avoid feelings of anxiety or stress often reported as symptoms of “Empty Nest Syndrome”.
To support anyone coping with Empty Nest Syndrome, we’ve pulled together 10 different ways to help cope:
Foster a child or young person who is currently in need of a home.
Volunteer in your local community, reaching out to charitable organisations and groups working to make an impact in your area.
Start a blog to share your experiences with others who might be going through something similar.
Take care of projects around the home such as starting a kitchen garden to grow your own herbs and vegetables.
Perfect your passion – it could be anything from improving your painting skills or starting a book club.
Explore the local countryside and finding new favourite walks with friends, which can be a great way to spend more time outdoors whilst getting to know your local surroundings.
Use this time to focus on your physical health, start an exercise class or joining a local fitness group.
Try something entirely new by joining a community group to learn a brand new skill whilst also meeting like-minded people.
Enlist the help of a friend or colleague to improve your technology skills.
Set your sights further afield and plan trips to places you’ve always thought about visiting.
By fostering one of the 9,000 young people currently in the care of local authorities across England and providing a home for children at a crucial time you can make a positive contribution not only to your own well being, but also to society.
Over the years, having raised a family – seeing them grow up under your guidance and care you are already experienced in nurturing a child through their different life stages and ages. You are already aware of the patience, time and energy needed to care for a child and so you may choose to use this chance to share your experience by fostering a child, who can no longer live at home and is looking for the skills and surroundings you could offer them. In turn, finding the opportunity immensely rewarding for both yourself and the life of a young person.
Fostering is a way to make a huge difference both to society and to the life of a child – to support them in a safe, warm, family environment encouraging them to flourish and succeed in their future. Why not take the first step today and speak to Capstone Foster Care to learn more on how you can help to build brighter futures?
Start the conversation today. Our team of friendly advisors are on hand to answer any foster care questions you may have. We can offer you honest and practical advice that can help you decide if becoming a foster carer is the right path for you.
