Ask questions and insist on answers.

Understand the services the child can receive.

Make sure that all available health information is provided to the health care providers.

Be available to the health care providers.

Participate in decisions about the child’s health care.

Make certain that the child gets to all scheduled health care appointments.

Make certain that the child receives appropriate health care when the child is ill.

Make certain that the child takes prescribed medication.

Understand the child’s health status and provide information about the child’s health to the health care provider and to the caseworker.

Communicate to the health provider and the caseworker the child’s progress or problems.

Provide information on the child’s health status and needs when the child leaves the foster home to return home or to move to another foster care placement.

Help the child’s biological parents plan for the child’s health care upon his/her return.