Forum:Foster Care

= FOSTER CARE PROPOSAL = Foster Care is a subject which affects the lives of over 600,000 children in the United States and over 80,000 in Canada. I wanted to know if anyone here would be interested in working on or seeing a site about foster care.

ACTIVISM
You could create a page on your own area of expertise, create local pages for your state, region, city or town, search for people who have been removed from your life, advocate for positive change, get issues on the table and coordinate people to make change.

Example
For example: How to charge a foster care agency for violating a provision of an act or a court order for access to your child AfterFostercare 13:15, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

See here, and here. --Gravity Talk 03:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * A wiki for Foster Care? Not that I'm sacastic, but I dont think it is quite suitable. Of course, forums are more suitable, dont u think? Making a forum for foster care is more appropriate.


 * A wikia is an interactive web site and I thought this was a good way to make information easy to find by putting in in pages. When discussions happen, they start to fork out into various ideas and this way I can create new pages appropriately by topic instead of someone having to wade through tonnes of discussion to get to the particular question they may want answered. I have been dealing with my own web site at afterfostercare.ca for a few years and know the community quite well. I just wanted to provide them with a different venue which might encourage more participation and a feeling of inclusion. People affected by foster care (children, youth and their families) are often isolated and by participating in a site instead of just reading it, they can learn more, and have a better personal feeling of value and purpose.


 * Have you asked the community their thoughts about a wiki for foster care? --Gravity Talk 13:30, 22 February 2007 (UTC)


 * It sounds a good idea to me as long as you're able to find editors for it. I'm sure there's a huge amount of content on how to become a foster carer that could be added here, as well as details of foster care agencies etc. Angela talk 23:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)