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Self-Care Skills and Strategies for Foster Parents
By The Annie E. Casey Foundation — 2017
Helping children heal from abuse or neglect is rewarding but hard. Like the children in their care, kin and foster parents need to find ways of experiencing strong feelings without becoming overwhelmed.
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