In our home and foster family, I/we believe all members-regardless of age, gender or ancestry-always have equal rights to:
- Have their ideas, feelings and dreams heard and respected
- Have their needs considered seriously and fairly
- Know clearly who’ s responsible for what, and what our rules and consequences are
- Make and learn from their own mistakes without shame or excessive guilt
- Be seen as a unique, special and worth-while person
- Learn and grow at their own pace and in their own direction
- Enough privacy, space, and freedom of choice
- Protection from family members who abuse, neglect, share ,or violate personal boundaries
- Unconditional love, respect and physical, emotional, and spiritual safety
- Their own friends, values and activities, as long as they are not harmful, in the judgment of the foster parents
