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There is an organization designed to help support foster parents, primarily by providing respite care to foster children so that foster parents can have a day off once in a while. It is a great way to help without the full commitment of becoming a foster parent. The organization is called "Lifted UP". Their web page is: www.liftedup.org. They have training sessions for volunteer workers and link volunteers (generally couples) with individual foster children.

David Knierim

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