Fosterage

Conducting outreach through home/placement visits and 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…

Foster care is a temporary arrangement in which certified adults provide care for a child or children, whose birth parent are unable to care for them.1 The purpose of the foster care system is to provide a safe and temporary home for the kids that are under age and can't afford to care for themselves. Foster children can be taken out of their homes for various reasons for abuse, neglect, abandonment or voluntary placement. The foster care system has grown over the years since 1853. The system…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to move from house to house, to change from family to family, to swap from school to school and never know how long will you be in each location? This is reality for over 40 000 children Australia wide. This is how children in the foster care system live. The struggle of constant moving and change, unfortunately, has shown to affect the learning abilities of these children. 92 per cent of children in care score below average in literacy and numeracy…

Over the last twenty-five years the foster care system in America has been overwhelmed with multiple issues leading to a broke system. According to an article from ABC News, over 800,000 children every year come in contact with a foster care system. The numbers keep going up year after year and nothing seems to work. Many kids never leave the foster care system. Many kids come and go into the system. Foster care in America has become a more prominent issue today due to the cocaine outbreak in…

Group homes fall into the broad category of residential care, a category that also includes half-way homes, campus based homes, emergency shelters, self-contained settings, and staff secured setting (Curtis, Alexander, & Lunghofer, 2001; Child Welfare League of America, 2005). In general, residential care services represent an option of last resort. Child welfare systems attempt to work with children and families in the least restrictive environment. How we can improve juvenile delinquency and…

Damilola Ajibode Children without functioning families are likely to have difficulties in having a positive interacting because of the challenges they may have experienced in the past. There are a lot of reasons why a child can be removed from his or her home and placed in foster care. Some of these reasons includes, Physical or sexual abuse and neglect. Most children have been abused and neglected, to an extent that they find it difficult to manage the situation because they never experienced…

Why Siblings Should Not be Separated in Foster Care Foster care is an ever-evolving system. Its brilliant purpose is to care for minors temporarily while their birth parents are unable to do so. Though its outside appearance is amazing, some flaws lie within. The most major flaw being children separated from their siblings. Children are removed from their home and placed with strangers, already stripping them of their familial identity. Separating them from their siblings as well would make them…

History has shown the youth that has aged out of the system has a higher rate of becoming homeless, ending up in jail, and become pregnant. Researchers have studied the juveniles in the support systems,(and) nearly 600 of those children will age out of the system in California. (Report: Foster Kids Face Tough Times After Age 18, 2010) States are still working on problems the youth have, but it is quite difficult to do this requiring more money and certain requirements for the juvenile to…

When I read my article and try to summarize it, I think of how far we have come in social work. This article was written back in 1979 by Joseph Reid of Lima and comes from the book Child Welfare Perspectives. In his article titled “The responsibility of family and children’s agencies for rehabilitation of families”, it states the responsibilities of the family and the agency to reunify the child back into the home. The article goes over the different views of the family and of different…

The Foster Care System Faces Issues In the United States there are 397,122 children in the foster care system and while most foster “parents” do all they can for these children others do less than what is needed of these children. Statistics show that if nothing changes by the year 2020 more than 22,500 children will have been abused or mistreated in the foster care system. More often than not the foster system does more harm than help. Most foster children are abused, moved around way too much,…