Overcrowded homes and understaffed Child Protective Services (CPS) offices has threatened the foster care system in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex for many years; recently, however, it has proven to be a problem that we can no longer turn a blind eye to. The Dallas News reports that in Dallas ISD alone, there are approximately 3,600 students without homes. They furthers that many children without homes “simply stop going to school and hide on the streets”. With a high demand and a low supply, foster homes in Dallas are severely overcrowded. This has elicited more and more children sleeping in the Child Protective Services offices. The combination of an overcrowded foster care system and understaffed Child Protective Services offices’ is
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A study conducted by David M. Rubin, MD. , professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, concluded that children that were constantly changing foster homes had tremendous stability problems in the future as adults. Therefore, our team aims to meet three fundamental goals for this project. First, we want to create more fully staffed foster homes available to the children. Second, we aspire to give each child a fair chance at finding a loving family by reducing the child to CPS officer ratio by. This will also reduce the probability of any unnoticed problems while the child in the the foster care system. Third, we aim to provide a stable and loving environment for the child while they are in the system. It is essential that they have some semblance of normality during an already turbulent time. We accomplish this by donating our proceeds to Agape Manor Home, a foster home that provides a family-like environment for the children and partners with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to find homes for the
A study conducted by David M. Rubin, MD. , professor of pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Medicine, concluded that children that were constantly changing foster homes had tremendous stability problems in the future as adults. Therefore, our team aims to meet three fundamental goals for this project. First, we want to create more fully staffed foster homes available to the children. Second, we aspire to give each child a fair chance at finding a loving family by reducing the child to CPS officer ratio by. This will also reduce the probability of any unnoticed problems while the child in the the foster care system. Third, we aim to provide a stable and loving environment for the child while they are in the system. It is essential that they have some semblance of normality during an already turbulent time. We accomplish this by donating our proceeds to Agape Manor Home, a foster home that provides a family-like environment for the children and partners with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to find homes for the