Adapted from Managed Health Care Guide for Caseworkers and Foster Parents -- Ellen Sittenfeld Battistelli- CWLA Press 1997

• Ask questions and insist on answers.
  
  
• Understand the services the child can receive, and assist the foster parent in understanding those services.
  
  
• Ensure that all available health information is provided to health care providers.
  
  
• Be available to health care providers on a timely basis to discuss the child's status and concerns.
  
  
• Communicate with the foster parents about the child's health care status and needs and the decisions that need to be made about the child's health care.
  
  
• Assist the foster parent as needed in getting the child to all scheduled health care appointments.
  
  
• Make certain that the child receives appropriate health care when ill.
  
  
• Understand the child's medication needs and discuss the child's medication with the foster parents.
  
  
• Understand the child's health status and needs by communicating with the foster parents and the health care provider when and if needed.
  
  
• Communicate regularly with the foster parents about the child's health progress.
  
  
• Ensure that all information is transferred as the child changes placements.
  
  
• Involve the biological parents to the fullest extent possible in the child's health care.
  
  
• Provide the child's biological parents with information on the child's health status and needs.
  
  
• Help the child's biological parents plan for the childs health care upon his/her return.