Ellen Foster

Foster Homes Being a foster child is hard. They have to move home’s often, and they never understand the feeling of a permanent home. In most cases, foster children are treated as government property rather than humans who do not have a family. They are moved from home to home until they reach the age of 18. At this time they are left by the system, being told that they are adults and should take care of themselves. A permanent home is something rare to the eyes of a foster child. However,…

Two competencies I feel I have excelled are competency one to demonstrate ethical and professional behavior and competency two to engage diversity and difference in practice. In competency one I feel I was able to complete these competencies so well by using my experience as a Certified Nursing Assistant working in a nursing home, a hospice agency and a hospital. The past eleven years I have spent in the medical profession has taught me some core values in acting professionally and ethically. I…

should have coordinated preliminary treatment plans for the initial stages of Gabriel’s placements. Here, the worker should have referred foster parents to speak with specialists or attend educational/informational classes on caring for children with unique social, cultural, and behavioral barriers. A class such as this would have been geared toward educating foster parents on identifying common behavioral disturbances, how to respond to future issues, and, importantly, warning signs of suicidal…

Thousands of children are placed in foster care each year and the majority of them enter the system due to neglect or abuse. All of these children need to deal with the rejection and separation of their parents and sometimes that causes other issues that make the child more vulnerable. A problem sometimes with foster care is that it becomes a revolving door, having the child more back and forth from foster home to their biological parents and back again (Karger & Stoesz, 2014). This causes not…

Registered Practical Reflection: Children’s Aid Society and the Meyer Family These past six weeks of placement have widened my eyes and perspective to many things, including the complexity of foster family’s. While in the midst of my placement at the London-Middlesex Children’s Aid Society (CAS), I was able to choose a family in which my partner and I would attend their home at four various point in time in order to conduct a family assessment and work through any health-related issues they may…

Possible has essentially been a college tour, giving children in foster care an insight of college life. Not only does this program show the foster kids a physical tour of the campus, but most importantly, it gives them information about attending college and provides resources. The program emphasizes that even if you are a foster child and it may feel impossible to attend college, that it is possible! The gist is to overall expose foster kids to college and let them know they could attend…

without discrimination of any kind, it will really be important for the agency to develop an appreciate day for all the efforts of the foster parents these will make them realize that the agency is strongly aware of their assistance and encourage them to introduce more people to become foster parents. Establishing a program to celebrate and appreciate the effort of the foster parents should be included in the Child Protective Services events…

(also known as “swap meets”). These venues will be managed by an adult supervisor, but will be primarily staffed by the foster youth in the job opportunities program. As Russo (2010) notes, it is important for start-up companies trying to build credibility to pursue relationships with other companies that have higher visibility or recognition. By promoting relationships with foster youth organizations and our social mission, Uncommon Ground will gain both trust and…

In 2014 a child entered foster care every two minutes (Statistics, 2014). Out of the four-hundred thousand children in foster care, twenty percent of those are teenagers between the ages of sixteen and twenty (Helping Youth, 2013). Out of that twenty percent, one in five teenagers will essentially emancipate or sign them out of care if they are not adopted before the age of eighteen leaving many jobless, homeless, throwing away education, and with very little independent living skills (Helping…

References Fowler, Patrick J (Aug 2009) Pathways to and from Homelessness and Associated Psychosocial Outcomes Among Adolescents Leaving the Foster Care System American Journal of Public Health http://search.proquest.com/docview/215089696?accountid=44726 Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, June 2008 Homeless Youth http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/youth.html Ringwalt…