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Therapeutic
Foster Care & Adoption
 TRACES
serves children
and teens who are in state custody due to abuse or neglect and who
have behavioral or emotional problems.
TRACES Foster
Parents
TRACES
Foster Parents help these special children to meet
specific goals in this process, but they don't have to travel that
road alone!
Parents
have a network of support behind them to help along the way —
program staff are ready and willing to help, and various clinical
support services ease the load.
Children in foster care range
in age from 3 to 18 years of age and are determined to have priority
need for therapeutic care by the state.
The TRACES staff
provides training and 24-hour support for foster care and adoptive
families.
Adoption
Services
TRACES is dedicated to finding and approving adoptive
families who will commit to a child for a lifetime.
In addition
to finding homes for children in state custody, we also do private
home studies for domestic and international adoptions.
As an adoptive
family you could provide a safe, loving environment where a child
can grow emotionally and spiritually in a secure place they call
home.
Can you open
your heart and home and make a difference in the life of a special
child through TRACES?
Specialized Training
TRACES
offers specialized training to qualified
Foster/Adoptive Parents in order to assist them in raising children
with:
- A healthy self-esteem
- Good impulse control
- Independent living skills
- A respect for others
- Appropriate social skills
- Healthy moral character
- Problem-solving skills
Who
Can Foster/Adopt:
- Persons age 21 and older
- Person who rent or own
- Persons financially able to support a family
- Married couples
- Single parents
- Families with or without children
Respite
Care
TRACES offers foster
families the option of respite and/or short-term placements for
non-custodial children. TRACES
has special contracts that allow for children to be placed in structured
therapeutic foster homes and to receive the same services offered
to state custody children.
10
Ways to Praise a Child:
X
You're Incredible!
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You Can Do It!
X
You're Beautiful!
O
I Love You!
X
You're A Winner!
O
I Trust You!
X You're Fantastic!
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I'm Proud of You!
X
You're Important!
O
Way to Go!
More
Information
You may reach TRACES
staff at (423) 224-1043. We're located
at Holston Children & Youth Services, Kingsport, TN. Office
hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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