Case Study Of Rita And Christina

The research topic Foster Care is the topic that has been proclaimed. The research question begins with, “What are some of the challenges facing the placement, and adjustment of Foster Care in the Valley?” This study is important because there are several challenges that are difficult for a Foster child facing being in Foster care. It is important in Social work that the Government with a Social worker must be responsible for taking away the child who is either being physical or sexual abused, neglected, or not being taken care of by their primary caregivers. In this type of situation, the child will be put into Foster care. It is key to understand the big challenges each child entering Foster care might have already experienced in the past

There’s concern that Hermionne Romeo, is not properly caring for her daughter, Ashante Saint Val (17). The mother kicked the child out of the home, and will not allow the child to return. The child was having chest pain and is self-mutilating. The mother refuses to take the child to the doctor and to provide legal documentation to Ms. Aarons (caretaker). The child has not been in school due to being expelled for missing too many days of school.

Foster Care and Adoption are the most multi-faceted areas of child welfare. Foster care consists of placing children outside of the custody of their parents or legal guardians. This out-of-home placement can be temporary or long-term. Adoption on the other hand, consists of the legal and permanent process that establishes a parent/child relationship between individuals not related biologically (Downs, Moore, & McFadden, 2009). These two areas of child welfare are constantly evolving and the decisions made on a child’s behalf can affect many areas of their biological, spiritual, social, and emotional wellbeing.

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.

Since the 1970’s, many debates and arguments have formed over the problems in the Florida foster care system. Some of the arguments were made as to whether different races should become foster families or whether or not is was suitable for gay couples to foster children. Another issue that arose was the children with special needs or older children that people didn’t want. As the foster system grew, it began to experience setbacks. There were now more children needing homes than available homes. The foster care system became full of problems. Foster parents started to complain about not having an adequate support system. The children were not receiving the medical treatments they needed. And foster children were staying in the system so long that some were aging out. Those that age out a were not receiving any support or training to cope with adult life. There was also a shortage in funding. In addition, there had become an alarming number of child abuse and neglect cases within the foster families. Although some aspects of foster care have improved, some changes still need to be made.

Children suffer significantly until someone decides to protect them. The government allocates funds to establish the foster care system and that system advances to enforce rights for children. When the right to remove children from an abusive situation first originated, the foster care system established a separation procedure for children from their abusive homes. This act of removing children from their families brought about psychological issues and trauma. Throughout earlier years, the foster care system adjusted their program according to the rules and regulations established to provide for the needs of children. However, problems keep appearing elsewhere. These children endure the brunt of every new philosophy in behavioral health management. Often, the biological parents will be left out of the solution. The foster care system develops services to train foster families in caring for foster children and behavioral issues. For some reason, the foster care system believes improvement simpler to reform the children and makes a trivial attempt of the reformation with family. The foster care system needs to try to achieve bonds within the biological family instead of the sole reliability on removal of children to be an adequate answer. The foster care system’s obligation should be to develop a training system for the rehabilitation of families and offer support to achieve the greatest outcome in child rearing. Foster care needs to adapt to supporting families emotionally,

In this report for Serious Topics Radio Station i will discuss the reasons why a child gets taken away from their parents/ guardian and need to be looked after. I will also talk about the short and long-term solutions. Children are generally best cared for within their own families. However, there are times when children aren't able to live with their families. If a child isn’t able to live with their parents, they may be taken to care.

The Book of David discusses how preserving families in some cases can cost the lives of innocent children. Richard J. Gelles was once a prominent defender of family preservation and believed that keeping troubled families together was what was best for the child. However, he changed his mind after he reviewed the tragic case of David Edwards, who was an infant killed by his mother after falling through the gaps of the child welfare system. David had an older sister who was taken from their home after obtaining juries leading to hospitalization. She was later removed from her parents care after they pleaded guilty to child neglect. A month after David’s birth, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards voluntarily terminated their parental rights and a year later, David was killed. Even with the red flags that the Edwards exhibited with the neglect of Marie, did not prompt social workers to monitor the welfare of David. The case of David completely transformed Gelles’s opinion of family preservation and how our child welfare system is fundamentally flawed and has to be changed so other children do not end up like David. He believes that David’s death could have been prevented and that the idea of family preservation should not be applied to every abuse case. Gelles claims that the child welfare system needs to be reformed and that family preservation does not need to be as strictly reinforced to all cases of child abuse or neglect. Throughout the book, Gelles

During Cupcake Brown’s tumultuous years from age 11 to 25, social workers showed up only a handful of times. Her first experience with a social worker commenced when she was taken from her Daddy and placed in Diane’s care as a foster child; intervention in Brown’s abuse at the hands of Diane came in the form of two home visits from her social worker and a promise that Diane was being watched (Brown, 2006, p. 73). Instead, her social worker could have referred Brown to counseling either before or after these evaluations, committed to a serious evaluation of Diane’s household, or transferred foster homes if available to change Brown’s environment, increase Brown’s quality of living, and reduce her experience of abuse and her need to runaway for

Although there are services that are provided there are factors that seem to get in the way of that. A factor that would seem to get in the way of a child’s full potential, may be a/the parent(s). This is described in our text book as child neglect. In “The Glass Castle the children were deprived of basic needs, such as: a steady education, emotional and proper supervision. It is important for a child to be given some sort of education as much as possible.

Most parents and other caregivers do not intend to hurt their children, but abuse is defined by the effect on the child, not the motivation of the parents or caregiver.Tens of thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them.Child abuse as common as it is shocking. Most of us can’t imagine what would make an adult use violence against a child, and the worse the behavior is, the more unimaginable it seems. But the incidence of parents and other caregivers consciously, even willfully, committing acts that harm the very children they’re supposed to be nurturing is a sad fact of human society that cuts

RCG Rose Campos reports no health problems. Ms. Campos also reported that she has had no problems with Elijah at home. However, I am concerned that Elija is not safe in his present home with, the maternal grandmother due to Austin’s behavior. Ms. Campos reports no physical harm to Elijah by Austin, but Elijah has witnessed Austin’s violent and abusive behavior to Ms. Campos. I am concerned about Austin’s exposure to this violent and abusive behavior to his grandmother.

Child maltreatment is a widespread issue that affects thousands of children every year. There are four common types of child maltreatment; sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. All of these types of abuse are very serious and can have many consequences for the children and families. The most common consequence of severe child maltreatment is the removal of that child from their home (Benbenishty, Segev, Surkis, and Elias, 2002). Most social workers trying to determine the likelihood of removal evaluate the type and severity of abuse, as well as the child’s relationship with their parents (Benbenishty et al., 2002). When children are removed from their homes there are many options of alternative housing. The

C. and Alejandro by debating the removal of Alejandro from his current foster home and placing him into his absentee father’s home. To be sure, any move that Alejandro would make–to another foster home, to his mother, or with his father–will be a traumatic experience. However, the potential of a great deal of trauma exists by moving Alejandro in with his father. By DCFS considering to move Alejandro in with his father, this would be allowing him to move in with someone who has not expressed any inkling of care for the boy (emotional abandonment and withdrawal of love) (Frankel, 1998). Also, the chance that such a move would evoke trauma stemming from living with the believed aggressor of violence against his mother, exists. Lastly, moving in with his father would greatly alter the plan of reunification of Alejandro to Ms. C., in which the child’s system has been preparing him for since he entered into the foster care

The huge responsibility that comes with raising children encompasses everything from education, and medical procedures, all the way to discipline and religion; this authority primarily lies with biological or adoptive parents whose main goal is to raise their children to be productive members of society. There are many different types of parents from biological and adopted to foster and single parents.1 “Foster Parents” is a term that refers to adults who are licensed by a state or county to provide a temporary home for children.2 Though foster parents are parents in name they are not legally parents to the children they care for when compared to biological or adoptive parent.3 Biological or adoptive parents are legally the parents to