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The term "foster home care" is used to include care in any kind of facility, individual family, boarding home, adoptive home, group home, or children's institution. It is useful to think of adoption as separate from other kinds of foster home family care, because adoption is a permanent substitute. foster home care, on the other hand, whether in the setting of an individual family home, in a group home, or in an institution, is never really permanent. The unsettling threat of change, or the promise of change, is always present. It must always be seen as a kind of interim care, awaiting the time when the problem that made placement necessary may be resolved and the child may return to his own home, or move on to a new "own" home on a permanent basis.

In the homemaker service program, a carefully selected and agency-trained parent substitute is sent into the child's own home instead of providing him with foster home care or supplementary care outside his home. This method offers many advantages over foster home care for some children and their families, and is often less costly. Homemaker service makes it possible for children to stay in their own homes and bridges the gap caused by the absence of the mother when she is incapacitated but in the home and, in some instances, when she has died.

It is also aimed to foster home new contacts between business leaders and the previously identified actors in a way that will allow to explore both new urban concepts and science-based developments, as well as to foster home entrepreneurial attitudes.