Evaluation And Evaluation Of Preservice Foster Parents

Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today, working parents have many options, but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally, foster care offers children more personalized attention than would normally be available at a public or private situation. However, orphanage care is notoriously uneven. While some children are indeed in loving homes, others find themselves neglected or

In the past few decades there has be an increasing amount of children placed in the foster care system. With the amount of rising teen pregnancies and maternal drug abuse means increasing numbers of infants abandoned at birth. There have been many cases of child abuse or neglect that have been on the rise. State and local agencies are unable to suitably supervise foster homes or arrange adoptions. Statistics show that many children will spend most of their childhood and teenage years in the foster care system, which has shown to leave emotional scars on the child. Today, Child Welfare groups are looking for federal funding and legislation to increase programs and services aimed at keeping families together.

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.

Every year in the United States, hundreds of children and adolescents are taken from their parents and primary caregivers and placed in out-of-home care situations due to issues in their homes and family lives which contribute to unsafe living conditions. These children and adolescents often face many health, behavioral, developmental, and psychological issues.

The foster care system exists in order to enhance the lives of children whose parents were deceased rather than because of abuse today. Our outlook, principles, and ways of being concern for and protecting abused or neglected children and looking after families has shifted greatly throughout history. In this paper I will discuss and inform the readers on the three main components. The first part will discuss the foundation and growth of the foster care system as time pass. Secondly, describe the contemporary state of the system within the United States, including pertinent statistics. Lastly, considering future guidelines intended for the system, including ways in which the system can progress throughout the time.

To establish rigour in this qualitative study, a field test will be conducted to identify appropriate guiding questions for the method of choice for the school-approved topic by sending the questions to 3 – 5 experts within the field of foster care and qualitative research. Date for this study will be collected during the interviews using a recording device and field notes. After each interview, the recording will be scribed verbatim to ensure accuracy. Participates will be contacted after interviews have been scribed to ensure their experiences have been capture

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,

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.

Foster care is a system by which children, for many contributing reasons are placed under the supervision of a foster parent in a group or private home. A child could be enlisted within the foster care system due to the lack of ability their parents have to take care of and provide for them or on the other hand, they may be orphaned. Canadian foster systems have seen a rise of children admitted into the program within the last few years. The number of children in foster care in Canada tends to be higher than our neighbouring countries. The Foster Care Statistics in Canada by the Quinte Children’s Homes (2017) stated,

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

Similar to other countries, Canada implemented a foster care system. As defined by Merriam-Webster, foster care is “a situation in which for a period of time a child lives with and is cared for by people who are not the child's parents”. Children can be placed in the foster system for numerous reasons, but their placement can be caused by the parent(s) or child (Craft). Yet Canada’s foster system doesn’t measure up to the number of children placed into the system. As a developing country, Canada’s foster care system is flawed and needs policies put in place to help fix it.

“I had no medical history. I had no shot records. I had nothing.” This was the response given by one of the foster caregiver participant in a qualitative research conducted by Greiner, Ross, Brown, Beal, & Sherman, 2015). Children in the foster care are among the most vulnerable population and have many health issues including chronic medical conditions and developmental delays. In addition, there is a high rate of mental health problems. As Greiner et al., 2015 depicted, children entering foster care lack organized documentation of their health history including immunization records. There are some efforts and policies in place to improve the provision of health to foster care children but they are implemented inadequately and lack coordination.

Placement breakdown of foster children is not a new phenomenon and there have been numerous studies on the topic. The majority of the studies have focused on the impact the foster children’s behaviors have on placement stability (Khoo & Skoog, 2014, & Cox, Cherry, & Orme, 2011). Virginia Department of Social Services’ uses several foster parent pre-services training curriculum, but all of them do not contain a component on professional collaboration. The topic for this study is a “quantitative research on the impact of foster parent pre-services training with a component on professional collaboration compares to those without on foster children’s placement stability”.

The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the competencies of who have chosen to be Foster Parents and joined the foster parent pre-service training which was prepared by DCFS. volunteer parents’ knowledge before and after the Foster PRIDE and in service training. The secondary purpose of the study is to evaluate the overall training.

A RT proposition is people conform to the role they assume, attempting to carry-out role expectations. For foster parents, their role is defined by foster parent training and behavioral intervention training (Farmer & Lippold, 2016; Schofield, Beek, Ward, & Biggart, 2013). Unfortunately, some pre-service training curriculums do not adequately prepare foster parents to work collaboratively as professionals with other professionals (Christenson & McMurtry, 2009; Cooley & Petren, 2011; Dorsey et al., 2008). The assumption is individuals that participate in pre-service trainings with a curriculum that defines the role of foster parents as professionals are more likely engage in FPM and permanency planning. These foster parents will