Jodie Foster

Foster care are like toy stores, every foster child symbolizes a toy who has put on the shelf and has been labeled used, damaged, and/or out of date. Still they have the same dreams and aspirations as the new models, to go home with someone who will love, and cherish them with all their overflowing stuffing, missing button eyes, matted fur, and uneasy temperament because too often have they been thrown about and trampled on. Too long for any child or toy to sit and hope for something better to…

Ground’s opportunity for success. First, by using recycled grounds, reuse is a vital component of the company’s sustainability strategy. Secondly, part of the workforce at Uncommon Ground will be comprised of at-risk youth who are aging out of the foster care system. The business will serve as a job-training and internship program…

a number of reasons why child adoption should be open to same sex couples. First of all, adoption for a child is always better than the foster care system. Children raised in foster care are bound to have physical and emotional problems. Foster care is a temporary living system for children who are abused, neglected, and is singled as a dependent child. Foster care is not the best option for children at any rate. Children need to have a good stable family to avoid having a negative childhood. A…

WOW what can I say. At six years old. I was still in foster care. I was mad at the world and I wanted to go home to my mom and dad. I wanted to live a normal life like every other kid I knew. I don 't remember the first day of school. I do remember that I went to an elementary school called Biddle in Detroit Michigan. I didn 't have a problem finding friends at all. I was a go-getter. I remember having a friend name Gordon. My early childhood life I was living with Mrs. Rodgers then I got moved…

Sexual Wellness within the Alaskan Foster Care System The number of Alaskan foster youth is at a record high; just over 2,700 children are in foster care (Dobbyn, 2015). Foster youth are at a disproportional risk to contract sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and experience unwanted pregnancy (Hudson, 2012). Foster youth, in general, state the major reason why these issues exist is a lack of education and relationships with healthcare providers (Hudson, 2012). Alaska has high rates of STIs…

for a job kept him busy . Dave like the idea of working and making money that assists him in his expenses. Finally, he realized that he could love and cherish people that were not his biological parents. The acceptance of Alice and her husband (the foster parents he lasted with before becoming an adult) was step from Dave being free from the thought that no one could love him. With this…

girl, faces a series of undeserved challenges that lead her to closure and friendship. Molly has a decent life with her family until her father passes away in a car crash and her mother abandons her. She is sent to an extensive series of short-term foster homes that were all unpleasant. Her disruptive behavior hindered her from staying in a home for more than a year at a time until she found herself in Ralph and Dina’s home.…

needs 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…

2015). As an agency they are dedicated to serving he needs of children by providing them with healthy families. Though even outside this organization and finding homes for these pure children, the foster care system can face problems in trying to place children. Some of these children come into foster care because they were in some way relinquished by the birth-parent(s) or when the birth-parent’s parental right have been terminated (Kertzman, personal intv. 2015). Terminations can be…

Fathers will think to themselves, “am I not expected to be as involved in my child’s life because I shouldn’t be?” Systems within society are built to accommodate mothers and only acknowledge fathers. Meaning that almost all agencies from prevention to foster care operate with the strategy of reuniting child with mother while doing little more than getting information regarding father. In my personal experience, I’ve witnessed situations where a child comes into…