PROJECTS

Caregivers

For the safety, wellbeing and permanency of foster children, IFCA wants to spread the best foster parent support methods. This is a big topic in both the U.S. and Japan. In the U.S., to remedy the consistent decline in foster parents, many new foster parent recruitment and retention programs were introduced. In Japan, there is an on-going effort to reduce the youth population in large residential facilities and to place these foster children in more family-like settings.

In the “Caregiver Issues in the US and Japan” section, IFCA provides information on American and Japanese foster parents’ current concerns and circumstances, and creates a platform for both countries’ to exchange ideas and thoughts. There are cultural differences between the U.S. and Japan. However, these two countries share similar concerns including difficulty recruiting new foster parents, scarce resources for relative caregivers, and the lack of connection among foster parents. In this website, IFCA also introduces “Collaborative Caregiver Projects” between the US and Japan.