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Raising tweens and teens: a guide for foster carers
Life with tweens and teenagers can have its ups and downs as they face those growing years! Caring for a teen can be tough at times and there’s always room for new ideas.
Raising Tweens and Teens: A Guide for Carers and Caseworkers is a valuable resource for foster and kinship carers of pre-teens and teenagers in out-of-home care. It provides useful tips and ideas to support carers with the day to day and the more challenging issues.
You can download the whole booklet, which contains a Help Directory: Raising Tweens and Teens: A Guide for Carers and Caseworkers PDF, 1576.55 KB
Or find advice for each stage of the teenage years below, as well as a useful Carer Toolkit.
Pre-teens age 8-11 PDF, 303.37 KB
Early teens age 12-15 PDF, 308.69 KB