Fitzy Needs a Family: Explaining Foster Care to Children - Paperback

Fitzy Needs a Family explains Foster Care in a relatable way to children. This foster care explanation book is intended to help support and prompt discussion with your children as you begin the process of becoming a foster or adoptive family. The story can be used to help explain why children come into foster care, what a foster family is, the people involved (social workers, birth families, foster families etc.) The book also helps understand all of the emotions involved in being a foster family. Worry, excitement, fear, loss, and the why's of not being a safe home and needing a safe family and home.

Fitzy needs a family is a popular story with foster families with more than 500 copies sold. This book about foster care, is especially for those just beginning their journey and looking for a way to explain foster care to their biological children.

This book is geared towards ages 5 and up as the explanations are given to really help a child understand what is going on.

The new edition of Fitzy Needs a Family, has new illustrations and a more concise storyline. To get to the heart of the whys, hows, whos, and whats of foster care.