Imagine you are employed as a social worker at an agency that trains, screens, and approves or denies people who are applying to be foster parents. Write down answers to the following questions:
A. What would you want to look for when visiting the house of the prospective foster parent(s) for the first time?
B. What sorts of questions do you think would be most important to ask?
C. If you met with a pair of parents who gave good answers and had a safe, clean home in a good neighborhood, but you had an uneasy feeling about the couple, what would you do?
D. You may gain additional information about a prospective foster parent by talking to others who know him or her. Whom would be essential to contact, in your mind?