"For various reasons, it happens that children cannot live together with their parents and they are looked after by other adults than their biological parents - grandparents, relatives or even adult siblings. Often, however, the caregivers must be outside the child's family or, in the worst case, institutions. Providing foster care, building emotional relationships, and the degree of responsibility that caregivers have is a broad and complicated issue. The guardian requires legal, social, emotional and educational support.The main goal of the project is to raise the educational competences of foster families and to expand and develop the competences of educators and other employees supporting adult learners by:- implementation of various forms of support: stationary training, online training, blended mobility.- creation of tools supporting the implementation of tasks resulting from foster care (or its alternative counterparts in partner countries)- improving the image of foster familiesThe target groups in the project are:1. Educators - people who professionally support foster families: foster care coordinators, psychologists, therapists, family assistants2. Caregivers - people actually providing foster care; related, unrelated, professional and reliable foster families and family orphanages.Under the 3-year project, the partner group plans the following forms of support:- Training for staff coordinating foster care- Training for persons providing foster care,- developing a Guide - help-desk for persons in charge of foster care- developing materials promoting foster care- creating support groups and equipping them with an online training package and webinars devoted to broadly understood foster care.The proposed forms of support are a response to the diagnosed problems of both the staff of care institutions and foster families:- Insufficient ability to communicate properly,- Feeling burned out, - Insufficient knowledge about the forms and methods of foster care in partner countries- Low level of knowledge about the forms and methods of working with a child with special needs.- Problems with building good relationship and trust in a foster family- Lack of awareness (or low awareness) of how important foster parenting is and how difficult it is to teach a newly adopted child the norms and rules of home.Planned results:Online training for caregivers (01)Webinars for Caregivers (IO2)Guide - help-desk containing guidelines, recommendations, methods of crisis management (IO3)-27 trained participants of the project - staff involved in adult education --27 trained foster parents- 1 website with forum- 2 films promoting foster care (creating a positive image of custody)- leaflets and posters promoting foster care- 3 support groups, 1 in each partner country27 educators and 27 foster parents and caregivers will participate directly in the project. However, in the context of long-term project results, the final audience will be much larger. It is planned to reach the results achieved under the project to a group of min. 300 foster families.The partner group consists of institutions:Polish: Foundation for education SMART from Opole, Municipal Social Welfare Center in ŻoryPortugal - INSTITUTO DE APOIO À CRIANÇA z Lisbon, Lithuanian - Vsl ""eMundus"" i Viesoji istaiga Mano seimos akademija from Kaunas."