Dear Foster Parent: Understanding Trauma, Navigating Loss, and Holding Onto Hope

A practical, trauma-informed guide for foster parents navigating love, loss, and a system that asks more than it gives—written by a therapist with two decades in child welfare.

Foster parenting is one of the most demanding forms of care: Loving a child whose story didn’t start with you, and may not be yours to finish. A child whose wounds you didn’t create and can’t always see.

In Dear Foster Parent, therapist and child welfare professional Angie Quinn draws on twenty years of foster care e...