Essay on Foster Care

In the classroom, teachers lack the training to effectively teach a foster child. To be able to promote educational stability for the child, it is paramount that the teacher is in communication with the foster parents. In an article by National Center Brief, the authors list the appropriate responsibilities of a teacher when caring for a foster child (7,8). The list includes having monthly meetings with the child’s foster parents, caseworkers, and principal to catch each other up on how the child

intervention program was named the Intensive Family Preservation service or IFPS and it works with the family to provide help before a child is removed from the home(Loseke,342). The intention of family preservation is that of an alternative to the foster care system with the goal of keeping the children within their family by providing support. In the readings, it describes family preservation as, “if a child protection worker goes to a home, finds absolutely nothing wrong, and doesn’t take away the

policies regarding the nation’s children, yet every day we still have thousands of children that are harmed and without a voice. This paper will briefly describe the history of U.S. vs. Texas policies regarding child protective laws, specifically the foster system and CPS. It will also analyze the differences between the Federal policy and Texas policy and recommended the weak areas of Texas’ Child Protection

assesses the potential foster families on whether or not they are equipped to take care of children. The beginning of the 3120-A gives information on the potential foster parent such as date of birth and whether there is a legal relationship between the adult and child in care. The form also discusses whether or not there are any additional member(s) of the household that needs clearance during the background check. The next section of the 3130 is information on the potential foster families criminal

There are approximately 402,000 children in the foster care system on any given day of the year. In 2013, 640,000 children spent time in U.S foster care. The stigma of the foster care system and the current condition it is in, is something that I would like to solve in my future. I plan on either going into Social Work and/or being a foster parent in my near future, and the first step in this path is to recognize the flaws in the U.S child care system. When children are abused, or neglected, they

Experiencing further unstable environments, these children are forced to move from one foster home to another. They rarely develop meaningful relationships and constantly endure lack of care and protection by adults. Sabreen, another gifted student, was able to excel in school despite her unstable environments. She, too, became a ward of the county battling to find a stable home, constantly

Adoption vs. Foster Parenting When I had cable TV, I used to watch a show on the Learning Channel, called "An Adoption Story". The show followed the story of a different couple each time, as they adopted a child. It was beautiful to see a childless couple be able to adopt a child of their own. The love and joy was the same as if they had given birth to the child. Adoption is truly a blessing, both for the childless couples, and for the birth mother searching for a loving home for her baby. I always

parents, they may be taken to care. A child may be taken into care because they are being physically or sexually abused. Physical abuse is when a child is purposely hurt and tortured by their parents/ guardian. E.g. burning a child or wounding them. “Children who are physically abused suffer violence such as being hit, kicked, poisoned, burned,

Introduction and Definition of Foster Children Aging Out “The term ‘aging out’ refers to children within a state’s foster care system who are still in the system upon reaching the age of majority or when they have graduated from high school” (Craft, 2017, Aging Out). Many of these children “have not found permanency with an adoptive family … or they have not been able to return to their biological parents” (Craft, 2017, Aging Out). A child typically ages out at 18 years, “but some states have extended

incarcerated. In this case while the mother was pregnant with the girl, the mother used drugs, causing the baby to go through withdrawals after she was born. The daughter, Tonya, has now been in foster care for 19 months with the same family, and the mother was not able to be located. Now both her biological father and foster family have shown interest in wanting to keep Tonya, our ethical dilemma in this case is finding the best placement for Tonya in this situation. In this case we’re discussing prospective