It is very important that foster parents and agencies work cooperatively.  They are "co-parenting" the child in foster care and like all partners must have trust between them and communicate honestly and openly.

• Foster Families and Leadership
• Reconceptualizing Foster Parents as Professional Parents
• Team Member or Baby Sitter
• Sharing information with Foster Parents (from Tompkins County 2006) (pdf)
• Advocating for your Foster Children (pdf)
• What Every Foster Parent Needs to Know
• "Secret Power" - Robert Lewis on Full Disclosure
• Keeping Good Records
• Caseworker Tips for Promoting Birth Parent / Foster Parent Teams
• Preventing the Triangulation of the Triangle of Support (pdf)