Foster Care Independence Act

Many people should hope that the children in the care of the Juvenile facilities are treated properly. Sadly, for some facilities, that hope is not the reality. Children needs in certain juvenile detention center are neglected and proper protocol is not followed. In my brief employment at such a juvenile detention center, I believe often more so than not, that said actions go unreported. The purpose of a juvenile detention center to me is to rehabilitate the children that they receive. In order…

of the foster care system. The “best practice” is a way of doing things that will contribute to improving the way an agency runs. The best practices use and apply the knowledge of what works best in different situations. The most important thing to ensure in the foster care system is safety, the best practices usually have safety first in mind. Practices that ensure safety include screening and assessment for foster care families, recruitment of foster families, training for foster care…

relationships with yourself, and puts your life back on track or helps people in some way shape or form. Place of Hope provide healthy family care, comprehensive case management, therapy, tutoring, mentoring, educational, physical, and spiritual development, essential life-skills training, healing and restoration, professional case management, access to quality medical care and support services to ensure the…

Robert Scholes wrote, “On Reading a video text.” In Scholes essay, he investigates the processes used in a Budweiser commercial. He describes videotexts as a complex dynamic of power and pleasure (Scholes 1). He also emphasizes the importance of teaching media literacy in schools. In a Powerade commercial viewers see half Jimmy Grahams life in a mere minute. The title of the commercial is “Jimmy Graham #Just a Kid.” Viewers would not know the young boys name until the end, if not for…

illustrating the struggle he had to go through on a daily basis and his background from early life. Teachers that speak up about Dave’s situation are ultimately the ones who save his life as he’s taken by an officer to his new life in foster care. His life in foster care takes place in the prequel to the novel, “The Lost Boy.” The reader is then taken to a view from Dave as he leaves his home to start his life as a man in the air force. He wants to be a firefighter like his dad however he gets…

the American taxpayers spent twenty-two billion dollars on foster care programs (ABC News 1). It’s a slightly sizeable amount, but it is put to shame when compared to the 600 billion dollars spent on the US Military last year (National Priorities Project 1) . Regardless, I have a solution for this seemingly excessively unnecessary spending. Even Wade Horn, the highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up (ABC…

Family Services, a foster care and adoption agency. The first week at my internship they had me review files of different children that are a part of the foster care system. These children have different background and all have experienced trauma due to abuse. Each file is organized in different section detailing the child’s personal information and court orders. It is extremely devastating to read what these children have been through. I have also been working closely with a foster care social…

areas in the field of social work (Ritter, 2009). One reason for this is because the area offers so many career options. A social worker who chooses to focus on child welfare may devote themselves to Child Protection casework and investigating, foster care casework, child welfare researching, school social work, and many more. However, all these professions have the same goal of ensuring the safety and success of vulnerable children. A Child Protection Services caseworker’s job is to decide…

heartbreak, and something they do not share. We all have a “paper cover” over the hardback front of our story. One day I hope I will be able to take off my paper cover and be proud of my story. I know two adults who were foster kids and are now millionaires and leading a change for the foster care system. I want to be that type of inspiration too. I want to be proud of how I took my past and shaped myself to be a person that can positively change others lives too in the…

The last option Sam had was to give up and have visitation rights. Thankfully, he did have to result to that conclusion. At the end of the film we see the foster care parents, Rita, Willy, and Sam all at Lucy’s soccer game. This final scene displays how everyone came around to support Sam and his decision to raise Lucy. It demonstrations the idea that a disability does not inhabit an individual from having the…