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    Undercover Angels: Utilizing Spirituality as a Resource to Help Children Cope with Their Experience in Foster Care
    Undercover Angels: Utilizing Spirituality as a Resource to Help Children Cope with Their Experience in Foster Care
    Undercover Angels: Utilizing Spirituality as a Resource to Help Children Cope with Their Experience in Foster Care
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    Undercover Angels: Utilizing Spirituality as a Resource to Help Children Cope with Their Experience in Foster Care

    By Angel P. Valdes

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    This is a how to inspirational book for all foster children who can read or can be read to by their foster parents, their therapists, their mentors, etc; to guide them in their emotional and spiritual quest for persons who can make them feel safe and loved, while they temporarily live in foster care or are waiting for adoptive parents. The purpose of this book is to help make foster children aware of what they can do for themselves to attract and stay close to loving and safe people who will guide them and encourage them as they get older and stronger emotionally.
    This book aims to support and validate the crucial role of foster parents and adoptive parents, and show appreciation for their labor of love and to motivate and inspire them to continue believing that their work is divine.
    Volunteers, social workers, therapists, guardian ad litems, teachers, counselors, mentors, parents, or anybody who is thinking about how to make a difference in this world by caring for and loving a child who needs a parent substitute, will be inspired as well.
    This book is especially designed as a guide for therapists who work with children in foster care, as it offers an opening for the discussion of issues relevant and important to the children. The utilization of the spiritual perspective is emphasized, to help children use it as another resource to cope with the intense emotions that the dismantling of their family creates in them.
    If we are to establish a lasting meaningful relationship with a child based on mutual respect and love, we need to first make the long term commitment and take the time to spend with a child, to give, to listen, to wipe the tears, to spend the money, the energy and the love, and to use the talents we have all been given by our Creator, to make the life of a child meaningful and worthy of Angels!
    Update: The book is getting good reviews in the Child Welfare community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateAug 21, 2013
    ISBN9781491829974
    Undercover Angels: Utilizing Spirituality as a Resource to Help Children Cope with Their Experience in Foster Care
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    Angel P. Valdes

    Angel P. Valdes is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who lives in Miami, Florida and works in a private foster care agency. He has supervised case managers and therapist for 22 years, and as he gathered the experience in his career, he realized that the best way to learn about the needs of foster children was for his family to become a foster family. This started as Angel began to mentor children who had little or no family around, and he came across Tony, the little boy who would live with them for over 3 years. His family took Tony in and of course as the title of the book suggests, this undercover angel crawled into their hearts and the family crawled into his. The book is based on the everyday lessons learned with Tony and other children. It is based on the personal belief of the author that we can all be angels to one another if we realize that love binds us, and if we look for the signs and deeds that prove this love. The children who will read or will have this book read to them will learn that there is love in the people they will meet, and that special relationships can develop as we all develop our many talents, and share the love that God freely offers though the undercover angels he puts in our lives.

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      Undercover Angels - Angel P. Valdes

      2013 Angel P. Valdes. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,

      or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 8/19/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-7646-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-2997-4 (ebook)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013912314

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      Messages and answers from Undercover Angels in foster care

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments…

      Preface

      Dedication & Purpose for the book

      Introduction

      Message 1. Why am I in foster care?…the painful but real truth

      Message 2. How do I know who to trust?… always ask questions

      Message 3. How can I survive all this?…you will, God is always with you!

      Message 4. What do I do with the feelings for my real parents? …The guilt, the pain, the promises.

      Message 5. What do I look for in foster parents and good people who may want to adopt me?

      Message 6. Why should I listen and follow the rules if they are not my real parents?

      Message 7. It will get brighter for you, God and your angels will make sure of that.

      Message 8. The feeling of Love: accept it, receive it, give thanks, and give it back!

      Message 9. This chapter is not written for you, it is left open for you to write

      The new chapters of your LIFE begin right here. Start writing them, start LIVING THEM.

      The Beginning

      A guide to finding and nurturing the special love found in people who take care of foster children.

      …from the lives and experiences of children (Angels) in foster care

      … and the experiences of mentor, foster father and social worker,

      Angel P. Valdes

      Acknowledgments…

      A big thank you to my beautiful wife Odalys for her unconditional love and support. She is the wind beneath my wings.

      Hugs and a kisses to my two beautiful daughters Leyani and Brittny, who support me in my role as a father, foster parent and as a teacher.

      Thank you to my son Tony for teaching me how to love unconditionally, and being the inspiration for this book.

      Much gratitude to Susy Montalvo, my dear friend and colleague who gives me Reality checks and support always.

      Thank you to Jennifer Valle, my main editor, and computer tech person.

      Sincere thank you to Aaron Valle, Co-editor and all-around idea person.

      A heartfelt thank you to Josefina Perez-Castro, another colleague and partner whose experience as a therapist with children is invaluable.

      Thank you to Angie Dominguez for giving me significant re-defining ideas and suggestions.

      Love and thanks to Ginny Hammond, a big supporter of my foster care experiences.

      Thank you to Edward Vazquez, an Independent Living young man who lives with us, proof that loving someone makes a difference.

      Steve Manne- My First Supervisor in the Child Welfare field. You taught me to pay attention to everything.

      Isabel Semidey- Thank you for hiring me back into Child Welfare, so I could complete my mission.

      …and last by not least thank you to my Mentor Maria Arisso, who taught me how to love myself so I could love others more.

      Preface

      T he theme for this book, and the idea and representation of Undercover Angels in foster care, is based on my own beliefs, as supported by my faith, and grounded on the following definitions of Angels that have been given throughout history:

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      • A guardian spirit or guiding influence

      • A spiritual helper for human kind

      • A typically benevolent celestial being that acts as an intermediary between heaven and earth in Christian, Judaism and Islam

      • A high spiritual being appointed by God, Ultimate Source, All that is… to guide, protect, and help us

      • God’s Creation

      • A kind and lovable person

      • One who manifests goodness, purity and selflessness

      • A divine or semi-divine being that is able to work with humanity for a number of purposes

      It is said that Angels appear in a person’s life when they are needed the most; in the most

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