Foster Care Independence Act

courts can step in and create a time-sharing order that both parents must abide by. A time-sharing agreement is often part of a larger parenting plan. The plan includes how the parents will handle day-to-day activities, who is responsible for health care decisions, who is responsible for education-related decisions, and how parents will communicate with the child, along with the exact time-sharing arrangement. The courts are reluctant to order supervised visitation or no visitation, except for…

events first hand, easy to follow plot, never-ending action, emotional scenes, and endearing characters. And Then She Was Gone has multiple examples and circumstances that make it a fantastic read. When readers first meet Jack Stratton, a teenage foster whose prostitute mother abandoned him, races out of a local mart in pursuit of a thief who had just stolen an older women’s handbag. Once Jack catches the thief, returns the handbag, and everything returns to normal, everything takes a turn for…

WV’s Foster Care System The foster care system in West Virginia is a broken system that should be properly set up and based on the child’s desires. Foster kids should have a choice to stay or go to their biological parents or foster parents. Many kids don’t want to go back to their biological parents because of the emotional scars that they caused them. Often the kids are neglected it the decision of whom to go with, and get separated more than once from who they love. Many of the kids are too…

Barbara Gowdy’s collection of short stories from We So Seldom Look on Love revolves around the foils and tropes of the disabled child, or those who are coined as the ‘other’. This essay will focus on Gowdy’s short story “Body and Soul”, which can be read in regards to the Julia Kristeva’s literary theory of abjection. This is because the short story begins with Terry’s abjection as an infant, and ends with Julie being disposed to a psychiatric home. Arguably, Gowdy’s short story can be perceived…

Deborah Ellis’s novel No Safe Place explores the journeys of 3 adolescent refugees and an orphaned English boy. Throughout their journey, their ability to work as part of a team becomes more apparent, as the challenges they face become more complex. This following essay will examine the ways in which Abdul, Rosalia, Cheslav and Jonah help each other overcome hardships and work together to accomplish their goals From the outset, it is clear that without the refugees working together, they would…

youth foster systems today is that youth tend to "age out" of the foster system without any program to help them transition from childhood to adulthood and beyond. During the stresses of aging out and trying to figure out where they'll live, if they'll go to school, and what they'll do next, having a sibling support system in place can be extremely helpful to youth. What Aging Out Means When children turn 18 and graduate from high school, they are considered to have aged out of the foster…

“If you love someone, you stand by him, forever, no matter what ” (Nolan, 67). Loving in times of struggle and panic is a process that Jason experiences frequently. Through Jason’s experience of living and taking care of himself and his crazy father on his own, Jason persists on accepting his father’s illness through love. Whatever the cost is, both mentally and physically, love affects a great majority of Jason’s actions and thoughts. In Crazy, by Han Nolan, Jason’s father becomes mentally ill…

“unadoptable” (DuPrau 35). Most of these children are then sent to foster care homes. However, a lot of the foster care homes want children who are well behaved and not ones that have to be monitored around the clock. They also would prefer not to house older children since they are more likely to cause trouble and be hard to handle. In fact, one estimate says that there are between 100,000 and 250,000 older children in institutions or foster homes waiting to get adopted. It is hard for these…

Transitions There are two main elements in this painting. The cage may represent different things to different people. To our clients (children) it can be taken literally. Denoting the point in their life where they were actually secured in our detention or placement facilities. To some of them it could represent being held in a familial or social situation they feel it is impossible to escape. However the cage may also be seen from a completely different perspective. The cage can…

1430) of Kay Khan and others relative to the protection of children in foster care. The undersigned administrators, as well as subjects consciously, request off for the reception of the going with the bill of an Act to give dependability and administrations to kids in foster care. It’s specified in the appeal to SECTION 1. Segment 21 of part 119 of the General Laws, as most as of late changed by area 5B of Chapter 3 of the Acts of 2013, is thus further altered by striking out passage 9 and…