Case Study: Foster Child Daniel

The U.S foster care system is corrupt and the children trapped in it face the worst of it. The goal of foster care is to eventually reunite children with their parents or find the child a safe, loving home. Instead, foster kids face the harsh reality of abuse, mental illness, and temporary homes. The children and ripped from the homes they’ve known their entire lives because their parents struggle financially. The system would rather pay strangers to the child to take care of him/her rather than helping the parents of the child. This case would be called “neglect” when in reality most parents were doing all they could to take care of their children. The children’s new foster parents are paid hundreds of dollars per month. Often times, the money doesn’t go to the child and he/she is left truly neglected. The system is broken because children are taken from their homes for the wrong reasons and put into unsafe environments that will have a traumatic effect on the rest of their lives.

I am going to identify a problem for The Province Dayton, a student-housing apartment complex off campus. One problem the Province Dayton has is reaching to 100% occupancy constantly. The Province of Dayton has been open since Fall 2009, and until this past leasing season they have never reached a 100%. The Province only does individual liability leasing, which means they only lease by the bed space, for an example in a four-bedroom apartment, you would pay rent just for your one bedroom, and then your roommates would pay for theirs.

His foster care goal is to return home and he was just placed into foster care on October 6, 2016. Jonah’s 60 day disposition foster care hearing is scheduled for April 6, 2017 at 11 a.m. in Appomattox County, Virginia. He is maintaining contact with his mother and sister over the phone, but no community visits have taken place thus far. Jonah reports he wants to have a visitation with his mother and sister as soon as possible because the communication and face-to-face visits help him to maintain happiness and mental stability while in foster care.

That's enough, I shouted in the court room. Your honor, he needs to be in a foster care, he's going to foster care you hear me, he's going to foster care, DFCS attorney said. You don't make the decision here i do. So don't you ever try to make an demand in my court room ever again or I'll have you awaiting in jail so long your great great great great grandchildren will need a lawyer now sit down, I said in an outrageous livid way. Now back to you defendant i have thought this over and I've made an decision. My decision is that you go to live with your brothers they are good hard working young men and take great care of you,but if i ever see you in here again you will be put in foster care. Now this case is dismissed.

The reporting party (RP) stated that Koinonia was informed on 1/21/16 that allegation were recently against the foster parents Brook and Patrick Cardenas. The allegation came to CPS recently however the incidents would have occurred about one year prior to the report. The foster children alleged that the foster parents made them sleep outside and they were naked. The foster children alleged that the foster parents would make them walk up and down stairs and had duct tape on their

Foster Parent One: Shelly was born and raised in Avery, TX. She is the biological daughter of Delores Jackson and David Monsiviaz. Shelly was adopted by her maternal aunt and uncle, Eura and Woodrow Hicks at the age of 3, Shelly’s mother was killed in a car accident and her father was not accept by the family due to his ethnicity. Shelly reported she was informed by her adoptive parents that her biological father was dead as well. When Shelly was an adult she searched and located him, however she has never contacted him because she feels that should have been his job.

Though I never entered foster care as a child and therefore, did not consider this topic directly related to my childhood; I see things differently now. The largest common denominator for the existence of foster care and the primary reason why children get placed is extreme poverty. Although I have gone hungry myself here and there in my life, and I also have encountered financial hardship throughout, it appears as really nothing compares to the histories of these families. The traumas they have endured living through despair and darkness of these circumstances is not easy to put into words. My research took me to different genders, different cultures, and different extremes of personal history. It was really heartbreaking to find out these facts via individual memoirs because it felt like they all sat in the middle of my room, up close and personal. What I do know now without a doubt is that I can clearly relate to the raw emotions which back up any human trauma out there. Any of these emotions are what connects humans all over the world; it gives people the key to relating to one another, especially in the space of suffering, as it will demonstrate through the call for and usage of foster care.

Out of every short-term foster parent I’ve had in the past two years, Venus was the one person who had the biggest impact on my life. In the beginning, Venus was very generous and claimed she was my birth mother. She would buy me all sorts of gifts like a TV, lip sticks, any snacks I was craving and even planned to take me on a twelve-day cruise. Then everything changed in the blink of an eye. I only lasted three months in her home, with all the chaos. All I wanted was a stable home little did I know her home was the farthest you can get from stable.

Nadine M.Hasenecz, and Foster care success both give good solution and ways how to solve foster care, also give good arguments on how to improve it. However, Nadine talks about four ways to help improve the system she says by Strengthen Families of Origin, Support Case Workers, Educate the Public, and Help Children Deal With Unresolved Grief and loss; but her solution is not working because she hasn't taken action to help improve foster care and make it better for the children to live in a safe environment because nothing has improved since March April 2009 (www.socialworktoday.com) . Also Foster care success hasn't helped come to a solid solution either all they're doing is giving ideas to help improve foster care systems

The average child is born into a loving family in the United States, but the other six percent are not so lucky. Some children in today’s world are unfortunate enough to be born into unfit families. Many of these children are thrown into foster care and taken away from these “families”. A serious debate in today’s society is whether or not foster care is a safe for children, or a trap.

An adult’s psychological development depends on one’s childhood experiences with adults and their capability of providing nurturance, protection, trust, and security to the developing child. Children with current and previous ties to the foster care system were found to have behavioral, emotional, and social well-being issues. The United States averages more than 400,000 children in foster care during the year. Amongst these 400,000 children, as many as 50% have developmental disorders or psychiatric diagnoses (Hutchinson). Children placed within the foster care system are more likely to be found to have mental health issues due to the inadequacy

The foster care is known to be the current system to manage social issues related to the child neglect and abuse. It grew out of a system being used by every class and due to certain economic conditions. The officials designated as considering poor had authority to indenture children from poor families than the providence of relief. Besides indenture by government officials, children were formally placed with other family to learn trade. The relationship indenture was based on expectations and economic aspects to provide formal education along with emotional and psychological needs. It appears logical that the system is required to attend the possible effects of foster care on children (Minnis, et al., 2001). Over the years, researchers outside the system have conducted different studies related to the foster care that provided mixed information. ===== concluded that the initial process of separation of children from their parents is considered as catastrophic or unpleasant. The initial parting is found to be dramatic and frightening for children being inappropriately prepared. Older children report their relief upon separation from their parents due to conflicts in home and they were often found to be sad. Such sort of experiences among children regardless

Youth aging out of foster care are one of the most disadvantaged populations in the United States. Unlike other young people in the general population who continue to live with family and receive support and financial assistance, foster youth transitioning into adulthood often struggle just to obtain and maintain general needs. Apart from the trauma associated with the history of abuse or neglect, foster youth are put in a circumstance that expect them to become independent and self-sufficient immediately as they prepare to transition out of foster care. According to Courtney, Dworsky, Lee, and Raap, young people formerly in foster care, compared to the general population, experience significantly different outcomes in areas of education, employment,

The study consisted of 12 parents who foster children ages 2-8 years old. The high levels of conduct problems among children in the foster care system and the added cost to families, society and services, there is a pressing need to support foster parents. Providing foster care to children with increased emotional, behavioral, and medical needs requires not only time, but patience in dealing with the child’s demands. Foster parents often voice they are unprepared to meet demand of children with increased behavioral and emotional needs and adolescents in their care. This situation can result in placement disruption, which further strains foster care resources and has negative impacts on foster children and youth. The incidence of conduct disorder

As of 2016 there were nearly a half million children in the foster care system, with roughly 25,000 “aging-out” each year (Ahmann, 2017). Most adolescents “age out” of the system with no one to mentor or serve as a caring parent figure. Foster youth are in dire need of long-term adult role models to guide them to achieve success. According to Ahmann, 50% of foster youth left “the system” without a high-school degree, as well as with having higher rates of PTSD, and depression (p. 43). Ahmann presented that research has proven teenagers, in general, that have quality relationships from adults able to provide support, do better than those that do not. If research has shown efficacy in supportive adult figures in a teen’s life then one can conclude that foster youth would also benefit. Foster children are at a disadvantage a soon as they enter “the system” so giving them resources proven positive is vital to their future success.