Foster Care Independence Act

Foster Care: Aging Out Imagine being in foster care in and out of foster homes for as long as you can remember. Maybe even your whole life. And then one day you realize that your 18th birthday is approaching. For most teenagers this is a very exciting day, the day that they become an adult and can no longer be called a child. The day that they can stay out past their city curfew and don’t have to find a way to sneak in the clubs with their friends. But for you, this is the day that you really…

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door for better jobs, health insurance, and economic independence for future generations. The dream of college graduation is especially one that foster youth wish to obtain. For many foster youth, attending college, getting a degree, and changing ones circumstances, is the key to a better life then the one they had. Unfortunately for those who experience foster care system, the dream of college access is never realized. An estimated 150,000 foster youth complete high school and qualify for…

Kinship care is the full-time care and nurturing of a child by a relative or someone who has a significant emotional relationship with the child. If children must be separate from their parents, either voluntarily or by court order, kinship care should be the first placement option explored by the child welfare agency. The Federal Government endorsed this practice most recently in the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008. Placing children in Kinship care helps…

Not until he delved into his past was he able to break away from my original impression of him and the other residents. George grew up in foster care his whole life after being abandoned by his mother and sisters at the age of two. After being released from a juvenile correction center for protecting his foster sister from his foster father, he dedicated his life to joining the Airforce. He was appointed to the prestigious role of being a member of special forces but unfortunately…

homeless youth (2014). Many youth experience homelessness for numerous reasons and may partake in dangerous and reckless behaviors to survive. Youth homelessness can be put into distinct categories such as homeless families with children, runaways, and foster children. Many families that struggle with finding and keeping stable jobs, finding affordable housing, and having health insurance are at risk for homelessness. Regardless of the situations that cause the…

surpassed 160 million (Brown). In the United States alone, around four hundred thousand kids live in a foster care house or other type of nonpermanent home (Bynes). Each year, close to half of these children reunite with their biological families, which, although believed to be the ideal solution, does not always make the child’s safety and well-being the top priority. A smaller amount of the children in foster homes leave their biological parents permanently and have the chance of finding…

life was turned upside down at the age of four. Child Protective Services (CPS) took me, my older brother, Kyle who was 6, and my younger sister, Sasha who was 6 months old, from my mother and placed us into foster care. They took us because neither my mother, nor my father was “fit” to care for us. CPS decided our parents were not “fit” because they were called out to investigate our living situation 3 times. Luckily we all had a family that loved us, and none of us were adopted by strangers.…

The parent at that time if they chose to not co-operate or don’t have the proper resources to attend programs they will not get their child back and the child at the time will go into foster care. The debate between the family and the agency is that for the family they aren’t given the proper resources to attend the visits and programs. While on the other hand the agency might not have the proper resources to offer them to get to their…

malnourished. Apparently Amanda was molested by one of the care givers, a male friend of the family referred only by Amanda as Bobbie. A lot of…