Mrs. Brenda Foster Child Development Trainer

I decided to interview Mrs. Seppa first because I wanted to be able to have a basis for the questions that I would ask Ms. Villalobos, who teaches in a sixth grade special education class. I noticed after reviewing and comparing responses from both teachers how much of a difference there was not only in the grade, but also the teacher. My first question was asking if they always wanted to be in the area of Special Education. I asked this because I knew I did not always see myself as a potential special education

When it was time for Oprah to go to college, she was eager to be out on her own and make her own decisions. However, her

For my Engagement Activity I conducted a series of research activities on foster care. It wasn’t exactly a specific organization, but a variety of them. This was to have different functions of how foster care and adoption works to unite new families together.

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.

having a husband. In August of 2013 Telaunda, my close neighbor and friend, put me in contact with a

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.

At 4:30 PM on October 9, 2015 I sat down with Jenniffer Marie to talk to her about her occupation. Jennifer works as a case manager for Justice Resource Institue's Intensive Foster Care Program or JRI for short. This agency is located at 132 S. Main Street in Berkley, Massachusetts. You can reach JRI by phone at (508) 821-7774. JRI serves Southeastern Massachusetts. The agency provides therapeutic foster homes for children who are involved with the department of child and family services. Services are offered to youth ages 0-22, who are unable to remain safe in an unstructured foster home. The children in the program have significant trauma in the form of; neglect, sexual abuse, physical and/or emotional abuse.

This week started off pretty slow. Monday I had the opportunity to go on a home visit to a foster home. This has been one of the most interesting visit of all. I went out with Faith, a Family Specialist. This therapeutic foster home housed 3 special needs children. The oldest girl has a diagnosis of Asperger and the youngest children, a girl and boy, have a diagnosis of Autism. They are awesome kids and they have been blessed with delightful foster parents. I just get good vibes whenever I interact with this family.

Professor Martha L. Coulter is a professor in the Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health at the University of South Florida. She is also the Director of the James and Jennifer Harrell Center for the Study of Family Violence, a position she has held since the year 1994. Her passion is maternal and child health with a devoted career to promoting the lives of children and families. She initially started out as a social worker, after receiving her MSW from Tulane University, but developed a joint interest in maternal and child health and child maltreatment after working with a program called Cripple Children Services in Louisiana. She subsequently got her MPH from the University of California at Berkeley (1976) and

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

Developmental Interview Paper For my interview I chose to interview Debra Schraad. Debra Schraad is my mother, she was born in 1965 and grew up in Lindsborg, KS with two parents and three older sisters; she has lived her whole life in Kansas. I chose to interview her because she is the most knowledgable person when it comes to my childhood, she is also a very fun and easy-going person which I thought would make the interview go very well.

Why not invite your home to a foster child. There are twenty-two percent of males in foster care and forty-eight of females. The percentage of their living areas is four percent pre-Adoptive homes, twenty-nine foster family homes (relative), forty-six percent foster family home (nonrelative), six percent group homes, eight percent institution, one percent supervised independent living, 1 percent runaway, and five percent trial home visits. In 2014 two hundred thirty-eight thousand two hundred thirty left foster care. Fiftyone reunification with parents or primary caretakers, seven percent living with other relatives, twenty one percent was adopted, nine percent was emancipated, nine percent was guardianship, two percent transferred to another

I got the opportunity to interview Tim Gnaneswaran he is the community involvement coordinator at Olive Crest. He talked about the mission of the agency and the different services they offer at Olive Crest. Olive Crest offers more than eleven different programs to help at-risk children

The most significant experiences I had this semester it was that I got the opportunity to work with foster children, foster parents, and different social workers. Working with foster children I have learned to work with them. Every child its different, and I have learned different strategies to be able to communicate with them. I have learned games and different activities to do with them. Working with foster parents I have learned policies about foster parents and foster children. I have also helped foster parents by providing information about the child’s case. I have also, help parents with their monthly paperwork for the agency. Working with different social workers I have learned different ways to do the same job. Every social worker will have their own different way to do the job and that is okay. The social workers I taught me the policies of the agency and the county policies. The social workers have shared their experiences and strategies for me to be able to help foster children for their best interest.

It is a sunny summer day as I approach the home of a friend of mine who is a foster parent to four children and the infant I am going to observe has been in my friend’s home since she was less than a week old but does have visitation with her biological father on the weekends. The little girl is now sixteen months old and has seen me numerous times over the past year, in which this has been a great opportunity to see the growth of this child since she was six months old.