Foster Care Independence Act

and kitten foster. Operation Kindness will provide all supplies needed , such as food , crate , toys and medical care from the onsite hospital. New fosters will receive a training and have clock support , guidance and help from experienced volunteer. Foster parents also can become a wingman to help the animals get adopted. Foster parents will work in team and provide a mutual support. Foster parents will receive an individual training and provided a resource from Operation Kindness. Foster…

On August 31st 2017 I was dispatched to 24007 Highway 107 regarding a missing child. I was in route to the location when I heard the child had been found safe at 7403 Davenport by Cpt. Swaggerty. I arrived at 7403 Davenport Drive and spoke with the child’s mother, Bonnie Potts. Ms. Potts stated she had given her two children permission to go to George’s house on Jacksonville-Conway Road. She stated it was not long after that that her youngest child returned home with the elder sibling. Ms.…

Adoptive or Foster Families were in crisis and didn't know what to do next before receiving help from the Sylvia Thomas Center. This nonprofit agency has worked with hundreds of families by providing needed support for challenges, problems and issues that are unique to adopted children. Always free of charge and always confidential. If you are Adoptive or Foster Families contact us for support. Please donate or volunteer to help us provide the vital services that will help Adoptive or…

disability. Alabama DHR provides services to 67 counties, all with the same mission, vision, and values. In order to help people in need they offer array of services such as: adult/child protective services, food assistance, family assistance, and foster care (Alabama DHR n.d.). Alabama Department of Human Resources are vital to their community with ensuring the protection of children from abuse and neglect, offering…

is only a matter of time before same-sex adoption will become a norm. On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage legal in all fifty states, and newly married couples are seeking to create a family. With so many children in the foster care system, same-sex adoption would increase the adoption rates tremendously. Same-sex adoption is an incredible opportunity to provide children with a stable and healthy living environment. Those opposing same-sex adoption claim that same-sex…

being in foster care affect their behavior? Kemp2 Although 3,988,076 children are born in the United States per year, according to www.cdc.gov. 400,540 of them are in foster care. Foster case is a system where children are placed into. The placement of the child is normally arranged through the government or child protection services. Yes, the children usually suffer from health compromising behaviors, attachment issues, and education problems. “children in foster…

It is currently estimated 400,000 children in the United States are in foster care at any given time (United States Department of Education [U.S. DOE]). The issue of child abuse and neglect is a continuous concern affecting our society. For the federal fiscal year (FFY) of 2014 it is estimated approximately 702,000 children nationally (52 states including the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico) were victims of child abuse and neglect (U.S Department of Health and Human…

Open adoptions is a way to retain conversation between all parties once the adoption is completed. There are no guidelines establishing how much contact is needed to justify an open adoption, but each party will benefit from the decision (Mintzer, 2003, Key, 37). The birth parents will have less of a guilty conscience for giving their children away if a continuing dialogue is maintained with the adoptive family. Also, it may open up an opportunities for the children to reach out to their…

Teens are rarely adopted and are just sent to foster homes. Sometimes they can go to foster home to foster home and that’s a hard for kids. Some kids become too old for an orphanage, so they have to go and start their own life. When parents take their child home, the child can be separated from their siblings, friends they have…

Foster youth who age out of the system often do not attend higher education (Brandford & English, 2004; Wolanon, 2005). “Less than 11% of children that have been in the foster care system will go on to college…[and]… the Federal government also helps children who were in foster care in their teen years through the Fostering Adoption to Further Student Achievement Act” (Rowan, 2014). Despite receiving financial aid to cover the cost of education, many youth continue on after care to obtain jobs…