Foster care

Voices for Children is a non-profit organization that helps foster children in San Diego and Riverside Counties. I phoned the agency and spoke with Kristen Balelo, Senior Assistant Program Manager, on November 1, 2016. She described the societal problems affected by foster children when they are removed from their homes. On any given day there are about 3,500 open cases of child abuse in San Diego County. These large numbers of foster children 's cases has overwhelmed the court system. Each…

Foster The People “Nationwide, more than 463,000 children live in foster care” (Foster Care Statistics). In America, there are hundreds of thousands of children who are without a proper home or without someone to love them. These children are left to feel alone and isolated. Is that how a child should feel? The answer is no. There is a great shortage of people willing to take in these children. There is a certain group of adults that are willing to take these children in; however, many have…

Parenting a Hurt Child Nationally, there are approximately 397,000 children who enter the foster care system by 2012. After entering the system some of the children’s parents were being terminated from their parent’s rights, these could be due to to their addiction, poverty, abusiveness or parent’s mental illness, which leave these kids parentless and scared. A Large number of children who came into the system have been a victims of violence at home. Most of these children later result from show…

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 college entry each year, but only 10-20 percent…

controlling for individual-level characteristics and child welfare system factors, three experiences – reason for enter into foster care, type of out-of-home placement, and whether parental rights of both parents’ have been terminated – are significant predictors of increased likelihood into the moderate service and high service utilization groups. Young people whose reason for foster care placement was neglect compared to youth who did not experience neglect are 26% more likely to be in the…

Social change occurs when the values, norms, and/or beliefs change over a period of time. These changes will cause either a positive or negative consequence. I believe that social change is a fundamental part of being in the human service field. As a human service professional, our goal is to make a positive impact and ignite social change. Walden has worked hard to provide a program that integrates social change, through A Vision of Social Change. Through this program social change is not…

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…

provided with the resources to become economically stable because when leaving foster care they rarely attend college and when they do a lack of support leads to higher dropout percentages, without a college degree foster children are very likely to be unemployed and unemployment increases the level of difficulty for them to provide themselves with sources. This has to do with the benefits that children in foster care have a hard time obtaining such as, because when they leave the system they…

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…

In today’s society everyone has rights that they are entitled to, for example, the right to freedom of speech, the right to choose religious beliefs, and the right to bear arms. Everything in the Bill of Rights is directed towards ensuring that people are aware of their rights as well as protecting them. However, children are not given the same rights as an adult. It is thought that children do not fully understand what rights are and that they are not mature enough to know right from wrong,…