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.
  
  
• 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.