Foster care

The resilience of children should never be under estimated. However, the turmoil in foster care remains emotionally disfiguring. Envision a six-year-old little boy, he rinses the dirt from his face before bedtime. Suddenly, he hears screaming and crying commences in his living room. As he peeks around the door facing, his parents are handcuffed. Several people, including the police, stand in his living room. Within the next 12years, this little boy is located numerous times with different…

actions. We all hear the good parts of foster care, when people get adopted finding their forever homes, the truth is that it’s actually an extremely flawed system…

of housing in the foster care system is not an effective or reliable way to help troubled children nationally. The existing system causes confusion for children, places children in potentially dangerous or neglecting foster homes, and leaves many alone with no one to rely on at the age of eighteen. There are not enough families to provide for the children; much less “good” families. This results in bleak conditions, such as overcrowding children into group homes or abusive foster parents. Though…

Ashley Gonzalez, Ms. Bayron’s daughter, stated that the Li children were more like family than foster children. Ashley that she interacted with the children all the time, especially Lisa, because she wanted her to become more verbal. Ashley conveyed that she assisted Amy and Wendy with the completion of their homework. Ashley explained that she had frequent conversation with the children regarding their parents. Ashley voiced that she encouraged all the children to have a good relationship with…

A study of mental health care for children and youth in foster care found that, “one-half and three-fourths of children who enter foster care have demonstrated emotional and behavioral symptoms that require mental health treatment” (Greeno, E. 2015). The Child and Adolescent Treatment Services at Bonding Links Mental Health Clinic offer…

community agencies to foster engagement, rather than relying solely on referrals from schools or professionals is important when engaging with this population. As foster care youths are often in unstable housing, being flexible and going to where the youth is at rather than waiting for referrals is a more proactive approach. Over the last two decades, the ethnicity of foster children has shifted dramatically. By 2000, minority populations accounted for 70% of California’s foster care cases; a…

assessment data and other relevant information for foster care is through the website Child Welfare Information Gateway (Child Welfare/Foster Care Statistics, n.d.). This site can link those who are looking for current data and information that relates to the statistics regarding foster care. What unmet needs are identified by persons in the target population? One important unmet need for foster care is retaining an adequate pool of foster care families. There is also the problem of attrition…

selected to discuss are youth in foster care. The social problem that I chose to highlight is how youth in out of home placements (i.e. therapeutic foster care) are being prescribed psychotropic medications at an increased rate, when compared to non-foster youth. Therapeutic foster care placements in some states is referred to as, treatment foster homes. Youths that have severe emotional, behavioral or mental health needs are typically placed in therapeutic or treatment foster homes. Typically,…

a better solution set in place. “Congress in 1993 gave $1 billion dollars to help troubled families” This money was also supposed to be used to help courts improve the way that foster care and adoption court cases were handled. This proved to be inefficient because in 1997 another solution was set in place to help foster get adopted, the solution that was set in place was made by President Clinton. The President in Tom Price’s article Child Welfare Reform says, “no child should be uncertain…

In 2005, the number of children in foster care was 513,000, but as of September 30, 2014, the number of children in foster care dropped to 415,129. Although it is promising that there appears to be a downward trend in the number of children who needed to be removed from their birth home, either permanently or temporarily, the number of children waiting to be adopted has not dropped by as large a percentage. In 2005, 22% of the children in foster care, about 114,000 were waiting to be adopted,…