Chances are pretty good that you have heard of foster care before. You may even know someone who has been a foster parent if you have not had the opportunity to do it yourself. Foster care is when children under the age of 18 are placed with temporary guardians because they are unable to be with their legal guardians. There are a plethora of reasons why a child could be placed in foster care. For example, if you were to get in a car accident with your child and they cannot figure out who you are or cannot get ahold of any of your family members, your child would be placed in emergency foster care. This would just be temporary placement until they can find a family member. Children are also placed in foster care if their parent dies, if they were abused, if they were abandoned, or if they were born with drugs in their system.
The unfortunate truth is that it is more common for a child to be in foster care because they were abused, abandoned, or born with drugs in their system than anything else. When this happens chances are pretty good that the child will have some development issues as they grow older. Something that a lot of people do not think about is that once these children turn 18 their development issues do not necessarily go away. In fact, some children turn 18 and they are still very much a child mentally.
What happens to these adults who have been in foster care all of their life and are unable to take care of themselves? In some cases they go to nursing homes; and in other cases they go to what is known as an adult developmental home provider. This would be the home of an individual who holds an adult developmental home license in Phoenix, AZ. Typically, an individual with an adult developmental home license in Phoenix, AZ can have up to three adults with development issues that require support and regular care living in your home. This care is sometime referred to as adult foster care. You would be the guardian of these adults and you would care for them as if they were your child. Naturally, you would also get paid just the same as you do with the foster care of a child.
