Maintaining culture. Helping a child retain their cultural connections and identity.

This booklet is part of a continuing education resource for foster carers called Real Kids, Real Carers. Real Kids, Real Carers contains 9 separate booklets covering topics of importance to foster carers.

The titles in the series:

• Independence and connections: caring for adolescents
• I’m an individual: children and young people with disabilities 
• Participation: creating opportunities for children and young people to contribute to decision-making
• Reality fostering: the impact of fostering on carers and their families
• Whose job is this? team work in foster care
• Whose problem is this? managing and responding to challenging and difficult behaviour
• Aboriginal history: the context of Aboriginal children and young people in care today
• Preventing another stolen generation: keeping Aboriginal children and young people in care connected to their culture
• Maintaining culture: helping a child retain their cultural connections and identity

Click here to download a copy of this resource.

Source: Peakcare enews 1st August 2013.