Foster Care Independence Act

twenty years of experience in the foster care system, and for many years she was involved in different groups. She worked with kids with disabilities, teens with dysfunctional families, and even kids who no longer had a parent or guardian. “It was not easy for me to get away from these kids,” she said. She always wanted to do more than an office work. Donna wanted to protected those kids in necessity until the found a better way. Fifteen years…

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,…

professionally. From the very beginning I understood that dressing professionally was something that I felt was very important. I feel that when you arrive at someone’s home or if you are at an agency where they might come to your office you need to look and acts…

capacity to provide informed consent, social workers should protect their clients’ interests by seeking permission from an appropriate third party, informing clients consistent with the clients’ level of understanding. In such instances, the third party acts in a manner consistent with clients’ wishes and interest” (Socialworkers.org, 2008). To address certain behavioral issues related to traumatic experiences, case workers…

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…

They are willing to care for both trouble and special children 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…

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…

service that their friends may need and to raise awareness about teen homelessness. The Crisis Care is a program designed to quickly address the needs of youths, like offering medical care, hot showers, clean clothes and a healthy meal and a warm bed to sleep…