Jodie Foster

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…

in creating my magnificent life. Throughout my college years and marriage I’ve looked back on this project multiple times. It’s encouraged me to do the research necessary to solve the problems going on in my life. It even inspired me to create a foster home for abandoned animals. During my first year of college I had a hard time adjusting to my stressful, and lonely college life. I even got severely depressed most days. While I was unpacking I found my old project on “Creating a…

The Effects of Insufficient Funding of Child Protective Services How often is the reality of child protective services (CPS) revealed? Occasionally, a child abuse or neglect case will result in child fatality that draws attention from the press. The media then exploits said child abuse case and the case worker is usually blamed for the child’s outcome, no matter what their efforts were to help the child prior to his or her death. Despite a social worker’s best intentions, they are not always…

Imagine your childhood and most your adulthood having no one who cares about you, or feeling like you have no one to relate to. Unfortunately this how Steve in A Chance in the World felt throughout a big portion of his life. Before deciding on which book I was going to read for this project, I decided to do a little bit more research on each, rather then just looking at the back of the book. I finally decided on A Chance in the World, because I felt like this book would teach me a lot about the…

As a foster parent of approximately fifteen years, I view the child welfare system in Michigan as broken and ineffective. For years, I took children into my home only to see them returned to a home where the abuse/neglect was still prevalent; to see youth aging out of foster care without appropriate supports in place; or to see biological parents set up to fail. This happened as a result of numerous factors: a Judge not following the foster care workers recommendations; high staff turnover…

yet experiences having place call home. As a non-profit organization we are fighting to help many adolescent and young adult in foster care and homeless to one day have a place of their own that they could call home. In a study by Child Welfare Initiate, reported that we have over 1,100 youth aging out of the foster system yearly, yet there is a small percentage of foster youth that are able to obtain protection and help they need through supportive services and transitional housing programs.…

the foster care system is in place to provide help and support during this time. Foster care helps children in situations where they cannot be cared for by their biological parents. Numerous reasons can lead to a child being placed in the system; however, no matter the reason, each situation displays the need for an alternative care system. Now that the foster care system is in place to provide immediate help to struggling families, the need for resources and support upon exiting the foster care…

problem Most children in foster care tend to be at high risk of experiencing stability due to various complications that they have experienced in their lives. Especially for those that are still trying to get used to the idea of being in the foster care system. Depending on the type of difficulty that they are dealing with most of these children living in foster care find it hard to academically strong when their mind is not stable. Children of all ages end up in the foster care system, some of…

Madison Nienhuis HS-2050 The concise argument The value of being biologically related to one 's family Introduction: Imagine you grew up with two wonderful parents. Your mom and dad gave you everything they could, you had the best life, you had food every day, you had new clothes, and you had a bed to sleep in. You were all happy, besides the few silly fights you got in, but for the most part you all got along and you were a happy family. Then…

2016). Child welfare, a government service that helps take care of children 's safety, has helped thousands of children from abusive family, however children aren’t completely safe yet. Even when children are placed in foster care, they still get abused or neglected by their foster parents (Lyons, 2016). Researchers stated that kids are more likely to do better when with their family because when they are removed from their home or family, they will have more of a chance to leave lifelong scars…