I Am A Family Friend

Randall Thigpen is a case manager professional interviewed for this assignment. The introduction and purpose of the interview was done through the phone, but the questionnaire was sent via email. Randall’s official title is Placement Desk Coordinator. Randall provides services to foster care children in the Arapahoe county DHS in Colorado. Although the Randall does not have a nursing degree, eight years of experience working with foster care children was valuable when providing information about the population of interest. Some of the responsibilities include finding a home for children who are removed from their home and their parents or caretakers are regarded as not fit to take care of their children. Other job responsibilities include the supervision of other case workers and to ensure the safety and wellbeing of the child in foster care through continuous assessment of the current placement and adjustments as necessary. The following questions were developed and sent to the foster care professional.

I am a former Intake Specialist employee with LIHEAP and worked at the Covington Hwy location. I will be graduating from Shorter University with a Bachelors in Human Services. I am interested in applying for the Family Intake Assessor position. Attached to this letter is my resume.

The purpose of this letter is to express my interest in the Employment Supports Coordinator position currently open in the Maryland Employment department. I presently fulfill the role of the Day Program Lead at the Maryland Day Program. My supervisor is Janae Householder, Day Program Coordinator.

Greetings, I am Winifred Knighton- Davis, Program Supervisor/Recruiter with Lutheran Services of Georgia (LSG). LSG is one of the largest non-profit providers of foster care services in the state of Georgia. This agency specializes in placing at-risk and special needs children in quality, highly trained, specialized foster care homes. LSG works in partnership with the Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) to ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. Although I have been with this agency for ten months, I have devoted five years working within therapeutic foster care services. I have twelve years of experience as a social worker and have worked as a school social worker, in mental health, with individuals with disabilities, with the prevention of underage drinking, and specialized foster care. I received a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Social Work from Albany State University.

Her idea was to make sure that every child placed in the foster care system would receive appropriate care regardless of their background, past history or specific challenges. As part of their mission statement, this non-profit agency’s main focus is to recruit, train and support every family interested in adopting or fostering a child under Department of Child Safety’s (DCS) custody.

At that same time in my life, a close friend worked for a non-profit foster care agency. She told me they were hiring for a position mentoring foster children. I ended up getting hired and served as a behavior skills coach for children ranging from ages five to fourteen. While working at the mental health private practice and the non-profit foster care agency, I was able to gain an extensive amount of experience. I worked directly with case managers, psychologists, counselors, and others who allowed me to observe each of their jobs. After more than two years of working in the human services field, I knew I wanted to work with people and to help them

Thank you so much for writing a reference letter for me. I am going back to school to get my degree in Child and Youth Care.

Specific Speech Purpose: To inform my audience about the nature, problems, and proposed solution of the Foster Care System.

In today’s society Fostering Children has become a form of employment, and too many Foster Parents consider fostering to be nothing more than just a job. Agencies are considering the hiring process as an urgency to match staff with cliental; considering families as just another case to fill their homes and keep their agencies up and running instead of taking time to match families according to the needs of the children and qualifications of the foster parents.

He promised to make a difference for the foster community, so he decided to get his bachelors in social work and intern with the National Council for Adoption. Having experienced the harsh realities himself and knowing the struggle for the children in foster care, he said “the reality of facing life's responsibilities alone is paralyzing; often we are far behind educationally, socially, and emotionally compared to those who grew up in loving families” (Lawson). Most of these children in foster care, ranging from two to fourteen, have to leave home because of neglect and trauma that had happened to them previously. Most of them don’t know what it's like to live with a loving and healthy family like most of American children get to experience everyday. Foster children experience maltreatment at home and in the system that becomes a catalyst for more corruption in their lives.

The Magnolia community initiative is a program used to help strengthen individuals and families in order to create a community support system. The family foster care and adoption is a training system for foster parents. The purpose of the training is to help foster parents prepare if ever they decide to adopt a child in the future. The training offers them a parenting designed helpful for raising children who have been separated from their parents. The prevention services were created to bring awareness. By educating families and community members about the dangers of abuse and neglect abuse, is less likely to occur. The mental health service helps families receive the therapy they need. They start off by assessing the individual and then offer therapy they think would be most beneficial for the client. The family assessment is a progress plan designed specifically for each families needs. The training program is utilized to help other organizations find effective ways for helping the welfare of families. The research and evaluation help professionals improve their services by conducting annual evaluations on what’s working and what requires

Foster families provide a substitute family life experience to children who have been displaced from their parents for a variety of circumstances. In the foster environment the purpose is to provide a healthy, safe home for the child while the circumstances of their placement in foster care are being resolved, it is intended to be a temporary solution until the child can either be reunited with his or her family, or placed in an adoptive family. Foster parents must be willing to give the child unconditional love and a safe environment to enhance the healing process of the

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.

I am currently a student at Western Michigan University studying Early Childhood Professional Education. I am looking into jobs for this upcoming fall semester, and if given the chance, the Children’s Place Learning Center would be a great opportunity to continue gaining experience for my field of study. I am writing to express my interest in a position as a daycare employee. I am experienced with children from ages 2 ½ to 12. My previous job at a daycare has given me the reassurance that working with children is my passion. I enjoy seeing children grow academically and personally.

She seems to look out for others throughout her childhood and is very aware of the