Foster Care Independence Act

At an organization that places children in foster care, extra support is provided in a variety of ways to the foster families. One of these ways includes the services of an in-office counselor. The counselor at the facility is to remain flexible when a family is grieving or going through a difficult time, being on call at all times to meet with the parents or children of the foster home within a 50-mile radius of the facility. One foster mother in particular was very good about encouraging the…

children that I volunteered to work with, I was able to provide them with love and support, while ensuring that the child’s needs were being met. With the children that I was able to work with, I was also working with the foster parents, especially with the infants. The foster parents that I worked with are pastors at the local neighborhood church, so that was very…

The perception of foster care drift—the phenomenon of children having multiple placements and exiting the foster care system on their own after experiencing prolonged lengths of stay—was first documented in the late 1950s (Maas & Engler, 1959). As a response to this issue, the promotion of permanency planning took hold during the 1970s when child welfare agencies saw an extraordinary increase in the number of children experiencing foster care drift impacting workers in the public child welfare…

intrusion, however, has been made evident by the welfare, foster care, and prison system. With the introduction of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) and the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act (MEPA). The AFSA allows the states to intervene in the private realm of family life and disrupt the relationship between mother and child based off the rule that if children are in foster care fifteen out of the twenty months allotted for the act, then parental rights will be challenged and…

older. The situations where this is most evident is in children in poverty; whether that means welfare system, foster-care system, or just poverty. Children in the United States in the past decade that are in the foster-care system, welfare system, or living in poverty, are more likely to have mental health issues than children who are in more affluent lifestyles. While in the foster-care system, children…

family member. In some families, the father is the head of the family all decisions are deferred to him from school trips, housing issues etc. A little research should be done if a meeting has been arranged with people of a different culture taking care to avoid stereotyping. Sometimes there may be a language barrier affecting communication. You may need to speak slowly, use different words, use visual aids or require the assistance of a translator. Social differences can also result in…

The Effects of Power For the majority of kids younger than the age of 12, the longest they have stayed away from home is at most a week-long summer camp, covered with supervising adults, provided meals, and safety regulations. So, for most, to be away from one’s own family for an extended period of time is nearly as bad as the end of the world. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is a novel about young boys who become stranded on an uninhabited island after a plane crash. Gradually, over…

decided to help less fortunate children by becoming foster parents. All they wanted to do was to earn decent money without having to stop…

to collaborative working within the social work field both societally. The case study involved a 12 year old boy who was removed under a care order from his birth mother and stepparent due to emotional abuse, physical aggression and inappropriate sexualised behaviour towards his younger sister. No evidence to prove this yet. He was placed with long term foster carers who already had two boys aged…

Day care, child day care or child care is a place or institution where mothers or fathers drops of their children for the day to trained professionals to be cared for while they’re at work. Chidren need constant supervision from the age of 6 months and up. Some stay at home parents who has 2 and 3 toddlers takes advatage of sending their children to day care just so they can get house work done and some time to rest before they comes back at home. As a parent I did the same although I had one…