Foster care service

Emergency foster care

is a short-term and crisis-oriented placement with a foster family to clarify further perspectives
Emergency foster care serves as a temporary placement in crisis situations. It is used when a child is at risk or when no decision has yet been made regarding a long-term perspective.
Emergency foster care requires a high degree of flexibility, resilience, and the ability to handle unclear perspectives and children under acute stress.

Long-term foster care

a long-term living arrangement with foster parents aimed at providing reliable relationships and emotional stability
In long-term foster care, children who can no longer live with their birth families find a long-term home. The goal of this type of care is to enable stable, continuous bonds with reliable caregivers and to integrate the children into the foster family.
Foster arrangements in long-term care usually last for many years until adulthood and beyond. During this time, foster families take on comprehensive parenting responsibilities and promote the children's educational, social, and emotional development.
The birth family continues to play an important role, particularly through contact arrangements that are individually regulated. Ideally, a parenting partnership between foster carers and birth parents is achieved.

Kinship care or network care

Care is provided by relatives or close individuals from the child's social environment
In kinship care, the child is cared for by individuals with whom there is already a familial bond. These can be, for example, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or other family members up to the third degree.
The advantage of kinship care is maintaining the continuity of relationships and familiar living contexts.
Kinship carers and individuals from the known environment must also meet certain requirements and participate in the comprehensive recognition process of the foster care service.

Child day care
Parents and individuals who wish to care for children for a few hours or on certain days during the week receive information and advice from the team of the Tagesmütternetz Oberberg e.V.. 

We need open-minded people,

• who are healthy and resilient,

• who are willing to take in a foster child,

• who can maintain a respectful relationship with the child's biological family,

• who can empathetically support foster children and

• who are ready to collaborate with the youth welfare office.

• married couples, unmarried couples, same-sex couples, and individuals living alone with or without children.

• who can provide an age-appropriate parent-child relationship between foster parents and the foster child.

• who provide sufficient living space.

• who have stable financial conditions and are not dependent on the foster care allowance.

• who cooperate with the foster care service.

• who meet the formal requirements, such as providing an extended certificate of conduct, a medical health certificate, and applicant documents.

Foster parent training sessions are conducted in cooperation with an external instructor. If you are interested, please contact the persons mentioned below. 

• Full-time foster care children (children who cannot be cared for by their parents for an indefinite period or permanently.)

• Weekly foster care children (children who usually stay with a foster family from Monday to Friday and live with their parents on weekends.)

• Short-term foster care (children stay with a foster family for a specific period.)

• Emergency foster care (children who need very quick placement due to an acute crisis situation. They stay with the family until a suitable perspective is found.)