Foster Care Personal Statement

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

On behalf of Apostle Henry B. Alexander of Shield of Faith Christin Center, Pomona CA, we would like to cordially invite you to attend our upcoming : Foster Care Expo on May 7, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. Location: Shield of Faith Christian Center 1750 West Holt Ave Pomona, CA 91768. This upcoming Foster Care Expo is a community event designed to inform families of the steps they can take to become a Foster or Adoptive Parent, Weekend Host, Volunteer or Mentor for Foster Children in the Department of Children & Family Services. The Foster Care system has over 20,651 children in Los Angeles County and over 5,000 in San Bernardino County. These children and teenagers are in need of loving families, who would be willing to bring them into their home,

The only problem, that occurred while on the initial visit to the prospective foster carer, was how long the process takes to become a foster carer. It was explained on the visit, that the next step would be skills to foster course. However, the nearest course was fully booked and so the prospective foster carer would have to wait for the next available course. Overall, the process could take up to 1 year, however the prospective foster carer believed she could foster sooner. This was the only difficulty for the prospective foster carer and the social worker, as they cannot speed up the process even though the foster carer has substantial potential.

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

“Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. You got a dream, you got to protect it.”

There are many different world views when it comes to placing children in the foster care system. One world view comes from Australia; another comes from Canada. Both countries give a different insight into how foster care is managed in other parts of the world. Australia views the foster care system as a last resort. The Australian foster care system first tries everything in their power to allow parents to keep their children before taking children away.

I chose to write about Children in Foster care getting swift Permanency. due to the fact I have fostered 35 children over a span of 8 years. The hardest thing you could ever do is wake up in the middle of the night, rush to the hospital and pick up a wounded child. Whether physically or mentally, broken is broken. Imagine spending 6 months to 3 years tending to the deep wounds of this sweet broken child.

As a consequence of this separation, many children end up in foster care or are placed in the care of an immediate family member. What happens to the child mostly depends on the location of current residency. Another deciding factor is whether or not the child's immediate relatives residing in the United States are legal residents, and if they are capable of taking in the child. In some situations, Child Protective Services will not place a child in a relatives home if they are undocumented simply because they run the same risk of being deported at any time. If both of these options do not exist for the child, or CPS deems relatives to be unfit to care for the child, they will then be located to a temporary foster care. The San Diego Free Press has reported the following: “there are at

Burned bacon and eggs as thin as water, “worst breakfast mom makes better” Michael cried Mrs. Malison the foster “Mom” didn’t care though she slapped Michael and said “eat your food or you’ll sleep in the shed today.” Michael thought anything is better than his actual foster bedroom, its black, greasy walls, and rickety bed it was horrible. When Michael woke up from his nightmare of the first day at the foster home, when rubbing the sleep out of his eyes Michael walked down stairs to see Mrs. Malison shooting her AK- 47 at the bird nest and Mr. Malison laying on the coach drinking Bud Light and reading the newspaper from two weeks ago. Michael was now fourteen years old and was still being treated as a three year old, he wished he could leave this place for ever. When Michael was three years old his mom and Dad divorced and his Mom sent him to this foster home. The only thing he remembered that day was when his mom arrived at the foster home she

I do not know who I am, was the thought that floated through my mind as a nurse shook me awake from the hospital bed in the middle of the night. As blood seeped from my veins and into tubes, my vision began to go faint and my ears rang. My mind painted pictures trying to grasp what had happened just a few short hours before. Upon returning to the bed, my mind continued to race with thoughts. I could feel a gust of wind blow through the sheets when the realization came to me that a time bomb in my life had finally exploded and the blaze was sweltered within me. What had I done?

I was in foster care when I was 7 years old. This was hard because imagine being taken away from your parents at that young age and being put in another family. This was a challenge because this meant going to a different school with different kids I didn’t know. I always hated being the new kid at a school because being the new kid meant you didn’t know anybody and everybody always stared at you. Every school had a different way of teaching and so I always had to adjust and adapt to different environments. I went to 5 different homes throughout those 3 years because the families kept giving up on my brothers and I. So every time we moved we also moved schools and so I just started giving up on trying to make friends and started giving up

I hated my parents for what they did to me and my brother. They were alcoholics that's why we got taken away. They gave us away like we meant nothing to them And like alcohol was better than we were. That's when i knew i had to be mature,and grow up and look after Liam. We been in foster care for 2 years. We hated it. If we ask to change they would put me(Emma) in a all girls foster home and Liam in a all boy foster home. I Couldn’t leave him by himself. So we had to suck it up and deal with it.

According to the ASPCA, “each year, approximately 2.7 million animals are euthanized (1.2 million [are] dogs).” One way in which people can prevent this number from being so high is to foster dogs and to take them out of the mills and shelters. About three years ago, I heard about a family who began to foster puppies through Fur Babies Rescue and Referral Inc. This is a volunteer run “small not for profit, no-kill rescue organization based out of foster homes in NY” (Fur Babies Rescue). The dogs brought to this rescue organization may be abandoned, sick, or may even be on death row, where they are then brought back into a healthy state and go into foster homes. The organization provides all items necessary for the foster dog at no cost to the foster parent: food, cages, beds, vaccinations, neutering, etc., as long as the foster parent provides the dog a home until it is adopted. While a foster family is taking in a puppy, there are some goals that the family should keep in mind. They include: allowing the puppy to socialize and be exposed to

I'm not the most privileged being on earth but I am a most compassionate one. My foster mother hailed from Mississippi. We were different in many ways, but she put it all aside to make sure that I was cared for. I decided to take up football my freshman year because I had begun taking a liking to it. I always had a competitive spirit and longed to put it to the test. My foster mother was extremely supportive and was glad that I was doing something worthwhile. I would exhibit the same compassion she had for me a little while later. My sophomore year, I had a friend who struggled with OCD. He didn't acquaint himself with many, yet I was his trustworthy and loyal friend. He was stressed out and decided that he was going to take a break from sports.

As parents, we all are concerned about the safety and welfare of our children. But at times things get bad when families fail to have adequate resources to provide for the children. Even the environment they are born in, sometimes become unsafe for them. This is the time when services like long term fostering in Greenwich, comes in handy for the families and for the child.