An Interview On Child Welfare

The chosen population of interest for the course project is children who are placed in foster care. Children in foster care are considered vulnerable due to a variety of reasons for which they are taken away from home and placed in the child welfare system. Foster care children are often removed from their home due to physical abuse, drug exposure, or in some cases due to parental inability to fulfill the child basic necessities. Foster care children are at greater risk of mental, health, and behavioral problems (Lovie, Beadnell, & Pecora, 2015). Case management is an essential part of the care plan to improve the outcomes of the population of interest. Foster care children face additional problems when the health care system is inadequate.

Physical abuse is when a child is physically hurt . Hitting, beating, throwing, shaking are all physical abuse.

This paper is a summary of what research has been done in the field of foster care. It will focus on foster care social workers, foster care parents, children in foster care, etc. In this work there will also be reference to aspects of adoption and foster care together. This paper will encompass all parties affected by foster care and will ultimately talk about what qualities are expected of social workers who work in foster care.

In 1980, about 500,000 children were in foster care, but a series of successful reforms began with that year 's Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act which dramatically decreased the number of children in foster care. But in the early 1990s, with the advent of crack cocaine and an economic recession numbers went back up. Child welfare advocates said that the foster care system was in need of changes so that children spend less time in foster placements and that America’s child welfare system needed an improvement. Some children in care were separated from their siblings, others transitioned from one foster care placement to another, never knowing where to call home. Too many children were being abused in systems that were supposed to protect them. Instead of being safely reunified with their families or moved quickly into adoptive homes many remained in foster homes or institutions for years.

The purpose of this paper is to explore a few of the major underlying causes of lack of educational success in foster care children, how those causes can affect educational success, and how social workers can help to improve the educational success rates for foster care students. This is an important subject to understand because according to Annie E. Casey Foundation, in the United States alone there are nearly 428,000 children currently in the foster care system (2017) and many of those children suffer greatly and lack any academic success.

The school liaisons focus group focused on school stability, teamwork with the home, teamwork with child welfare (CW), and foster youth needs. The agency advocates focus group focused on concerns about the CW education liaison position, foster youth needs, problems dealing with schools, and recommendation for improving services. In the discussion section of the study the discussed how everything went in the study and how the results turned out. All three sets of participants recognized that students in foster care experience serious academic, social, and behavioral problems in the school setting. Each of the groups thought that all of the groups could work together better on how to bring foster kids more success.

Foster care services in the U.S. have been decreasing while children in the system have been increasing. According to Teresa James, Commissioner of the Department of Community Based Services, the system has an average of 7,700 to 8,200 children in need of foster care (qtd. in Toncray). Reduction of the system has caused foster children to suffer more than they already have. This has reached a crisis in which needs immediate attention. The U.S. government and foster care services know of the issues, but continue to disregard. There is more to the children then many people may realize. Foster children will end up homeless and stay suffering if no attention is aided.

The second account of a changing stance toward children’s rights was evolution alongside women’s rights. Before this time, women and children were seen as unimportant under the law, whereas a father was given almost total control over all matters regarding his wife and children. If a father was violent or neglectful, society simply turned their shoulder to it. In the latter half of the nineteenth century, laws pertaining to the family system began to change. A new law recognized the equal rights of fathers and mothers with the mother’s rights reigning over the fathers in regards to the children. Also, the legal system began viewing children as important to the future of society, therefore “appropriate objects of the court’s

According to “Education and Students in Foster Care,” “Nationally, there are approximately 400,000 children in the foster care system on any given day.” These children are in a way being put at a disadvantage because of the effects of transitioning the child out of their home and into a strangers’ residence. Changeovers for fosters often result in many unfortunates including mixed feelings, education success decrease and a lack of preparation into adulthood. Promoting the community to learn about the long-lasting issues and to gain awareness can be of benefit. In addition, a replacement of the foster care system could overall strengthen most foster children’s lives as they grow and become contributing adults.

Child welfare is one of the most important sociological topics today. It is a concept that is used to describe the combination of efforts and services that are designed with the primary objective of maintaining and promoting the safety as well as the wellbeing of children and ensuring that families have the necessary support they need to ensure that their children have been successfully cared for. In essence, child welfare is social work that is focused on the welfare of children (Keddell, 2014). Child welfare is a broad topic that involves, among others, child protection from abuse, support for families to effectively care for their children, investigation of child maltreatments and neglect, and support for children in

The Term topic I chose to research about is Child Welfare Services. This topic has a variety of different regulations and forms that makes this program run. Child Welfare Services have been around for quite some time and has been helping out as much as they are allowed to. This program has a time line of many important events that all build up the Child Welfare program.

Over the course of the past few years, I have been very blessed to have professional experiences that reinforced my interest in social work. In 2014, I worked as a guidance counselor and learning support intern at St. Pius Elementary school in Greensboro, North Carolina. In the guidance-counseling department, I assisted with counseling appointments with children in grades K-8. We often discussed topics

In Case Management we talk and put a lot of stress on the “at-risk” population. The term ‘at risk’ in this references to the six most at risk population that case managers as well as social workers have to help in their profession. Refers to populations of people who, because of certain circumstances in their life, will be more likely to experience a problem/challenge related to adjustment and functioning. And these problems will interfere with their ability to reach their full potential. Foster Care children are one of the “at-risk” populations. Many children and young adults have been placed under a foster care system. Foster care is the term used for a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state certified caregiver known as a “foster parent". The placement of the child is usually arranged through the government or a social service agency. It can happen in many different ways, a social worker could be called about a situation that requires them to investigate a family and the child at risk. If the said child or youth is in school then the person who called the agency could have been the teacher or counselor. Neighbors are also people that call the child social word offices because they see abuse happening right outside their homes and feel that they need to report this. It 's terrifying to think how one day someone could be with their parents having a normal life, then the next day or even moment all of a sudden that

Child welfare is an issue that is vastly debated today in the United States. Regardless of party lines, socioeconomics, gender, religion, or race, it seems like everyone has a stake in shaping this issue. As such, progression in policy can be difficult and is often controversial. Throughout the 1900s, the United States Supreme Court heard and decided several cases that set forth precedent, giving more power to, and enabling, parents to raise their children as they see fit. As constituents, parents have a substantial say in what policy should and will be enacted. However, as individuals, parents do not have nearly as much power alone as they do in groups to influence public policy. Therefore, by banning together and creating interest groups, as well as participating in political parties, individuals who have an interest in child welfare, are more likely to make a substantial difference.

The local authority has the duty of care for the child and their decisions should also be taken into account. This could be linked to the UNCRC. The children 's rights are valued and taken into consideration; the child has their own views and feelings. The welfare of the child should be put in the centre at all times. The articles I am referring to from the UNCRC are article 3- organizations should work towards what 's best for the child for example a child that is in harm’s way should receive support or should be taken away for protection, depending on how much risk they are in. Article 12- children and young people have the right to say what they think should happen; this is relevant to a child going into foster care as they still have