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Please join us at our next meeting!
Please join us for the next meeting of the Morris County Foster Parents Association on Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at the DYFS Morris Local Office West. We are pleased to welcome Jennifer Budz, Child Placement Review Board Coordinator for Morris County, who will present an overview of the child placement review process and the family court system. Her presentation will count for one hour of mandated in-service training. Click here for details.
Help Us Save Money - And Conserve Resources!
The MCFPA is exploring ways to reduce costs and make distribution of information more efficient for our families. With the growing commonality of the Internet and e-mail, we would like to develop a better strategy for distributing information electronically, including the distribution of our monthly newsletter. Please visit our Yahoo! group website at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mcfpa and click on the Join this Group! button. If you've never registered with Yahoo! groups before, you'll need to do that. Once you've joined the group, you'll be notified of new postings and be able to post your own questions and concerns to share with other subscribers. The group postings and membership are carefully monitored and the e-mail addresses are never shared with anyone.
Don't Forget About Online Training from FAFS!
Need more training hours for licensing? Give
online training a try! Foster and Adoptive Family Services (FAFS)
offers a number of online (e-learning) courses that count towards your
in-service training requirements.
Click here to get started today!
Morris County DYFS Now Has TWO Local Offices
In response to increases in child abuse and neglect referrals, as well as the desire to use resources and serve families more efficiently, Morris County's Division of Youth and Family Services opened a second local office at 164 Speedwell Avenue in Morristown on June 12, 2007. Click here for details.
Resource Parent Honorarium Increased!
Effective May 1, 2007, the honorarium provided to
resource parents who recruit other families will increase from $100 for
regular homes and $150 for boarder baby placements to a flat rate of
$200. Resource parents who recruit other families are entitled to
this honorarium when the home they refer becomes licensed. Resource
parents who qualify for the honorarium will receive the new rate for
homes licensed after May 1st.
Check out our Online Resources!
In addition to this website, we also host a newsgroup in Yahoo! Groups, which we hope to use as a distribution method for interested subscribers, for articles of interest, topical discussions and more. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mcfpa and subscribe today!
Attention All Scouts!
If your Girl Scout or Boy Scout troop is looking for a community service project, please consider helping our kids. There's a wide variety of activities that have made excellent projects for scout trips in the past, including our Backpack Program, Clothing/Coat Drives, Tricky Tray, Holiday Party, and Halloween Costume Drive. And now you can earn a patch for your work with us. Click here for an exclusive preview!
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