...Our Foster System Children are the backbone of any society. They represent what will come of that future society. Unfortunately, not all children are cared for, this can be a problem when we look at how children in the foster care system will grow up. When looking at the present time, there is major flaws in the current foster care system. The children today are not being properly taken care of. There are many reasons including: Poor funding, lack of homes, and settling issues. Overall, the flaws are making an unstable households and the issue must be fixed. The foster system of today is broken, the child inside are struggling mentally and physically; the system needs to be improved, the opposing view would be that foster care is successful...
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...“Eighty percent of adolescents entering the foster care system have severe mental health problems” (Source E). Children in the foster care system have experienced trauma, abuse and neglect, and counseling is an effective non-drug solution. However the majority of these children are misdiagnosed; foster children are prescribed psychiatric drugs instead of counseling or other non-drug alternatives. These misdiagnoses are then added to a child’s medical history, which lacks consistency from constantly being transferred to different homes. Overhauling America’s foster care system will be challenging and strenuous, but is a necessary step in improving the welfare of foster children, who spend on average over two years in purported temporary placement...
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...Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state-certified caregiver which is called a foster parent. More than 463,000 children are in the foster care system. The living arrangements for foster care children are exceptional. The placement of the child is always arranged through the government or a social-service agency. Children had been physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, or their caretaker isn’t stable enough to take care of the child which result in the Child Protective Services removes the child from the home. Once this goes into effect the child is place into three possible temporally living arrangements which are foster home, group home, and kinship home....
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...The foster care system is when a minor is placed into a group home through the government's social service. Many kids who go into care today are victims of either violence or sexual assault. Not only that but on any day 415,000 kids enter the U.S foster care system. But only 59% of them are actually adopted each year. The greatest problem that I see facing society today is how corrupt the foster care system is. In order to help solve this problem I plan on understanding how the system works, giving , and get people to see many problems with foster care. The child welfare services investigate possible reports of child abuse or neglect. Some kids have relatives that could’ve saved them from being in foster care. But for most kids their...
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...Children and adolescents in the foster care system are at a higher risk for psychopathology than other children in the general population in our country. In February of 2015, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced the bipartisan legislation to improve foster care services for thousands of vulnerable youth in America. This bill would improve health care and mental health services to children and young people in the foster care system to ensure that effective community-based options are available for them and their families. “Therapeutic foster care, often referred to as treatment foster care (TFC), is the evidenced-informed trauma-informed and highly effective placement of children and youth with serious medical,...
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...about The Foster Care System. There are hundreds of thousands of kids that have been taken away from their home either from neglection, abuse etc and put into terrible temporary homes. We have forgotten how awful these kids’ situations are. The Foster Care System is broken and we need to help fix it. People need to advocate for these kids. Some kids are being put into dangerous homes. Foster kids may be abused in their foster homes as well as their biological families’ homes. They are not guaranteed safety. Liftingtheveil.org states, “over 28% of children in New York alone are abused while in ‘the system’” (The Foster Care System and Its Victims: Part 2). A solution to this would be doing monthly or weekly check ups in the homes that the kids are placed in, depending on the severity of the child’s background. Another solution could be making the background checks even more thorough. Some foster parents are just not cut out to be parents, and that needs to be recognized....
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...Foster care is an arrangement where a minor is placed under the care of a group home, ward or private home that has been certified by the government. There have been concerns that foster care services has inadequately delivered a high-quality of care for minors, and after so much criticism society has questioned the future reliability of foster care services. Much criticism has been directed toward the inadequacy of key requirements which has in turn undermined the success of foster care. The foster care system has been facing problems relating to finances, little or no training to the care givers, and inadequate access to respite are (Reinhard, Gien, Petlick, & Bemis, 2008). In addition, the children under this care achieve little in their education and development is below average. The aim of this paper is to analyze the inadequacies facing the foster care system, the effect these inadequacies have on children and adolescents in foster care, and theories coined for explaining these problems....
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...Chat 1 In this chat we discussed a one of the most vexing problems that California currently has. This problem is to provide high quality public education to all students and especially children in the foster-care system. As we talked about what resources are available for foster students, to achieve academic, academic and development, we have realized that we don’t know much information about available resources. LCAP funding, RTI, counselors or intervention teams are the first resources that came to our minds. We also discussed the confidentiality of the student records and how to identify Foster Youth students at school. Principal’s leadership to deliver this information to teachers will be a helpful step to identify these students without...
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...Psychotropic drugs are a serious issue in the foster care system in America. As the need for more medication for adolescents affected by psychological disorders and behavioral issues increases the government provides an additional excess in psychotropic drugs for proper dosage. In light of this, the foster system tends to overdose hyperactive or poorly behaved children in order to control their erratic mood swings and behaviors. These children are prescribed these drugs because they were likely treated improperly and now suffer with psychological issues. In most cases it is evident that the most misbehaved children are the ones who tend to be prescribed a surplus of these medications because prescribers believe that more medication implements more control over the child and their behaviors. Policies have been implemented...
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...For this paper, I have selected to analyze the 25-year inflation record of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Mark. I have chosen this country and there inflation record for a couple of reasons. The number one reason being I spent nearly a year living in BiH. I experienced firsthand the hyperinflation the country suffered from. The BiH’s economy was devastated by civil war that broke out after the death of for former ruler of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito. Substantial progress has been made in economic improvement since peace was reconstructed in the republic. Inflation has remained low since reunification however, that was not always the case. Growth has been uneven. Privatization has been slow, and unemployment remains high. Bosnia's economy is boosted by its effective denationalization of the banking business. The tourism division has been improving and helping the economy, with popular winter skiing destinations. However, political corruption is one of the more acute problems in the country. Due the the fact that BiH was not a Country until after the civil war, inflation records are not available for the past 25 years. Below is the inflation rate on average consumer prices in Bosnia for 1999 to 2012. Year Inflation, average consumer prices 1999 2.758 2000 4.906 2001 4.614 2002 0.313 2003 0.547 2004 0.282 2005 3.582 2006 6.126 2007 1.495 2008 7.433 2009 -0.381 2010 2.123 The reason for inflation in BiH is similar to any other country. As the...
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...Foster Care in the United States Sue King Liberty University Abstract The history of foster care in the United States started with orphan trains and the Children’s Aid Society founded by Charles Loring Brace. Recent research describes the child welfare system as an organization that provides service to helpless children in need. This paper will discuss foster care as it is relates to safety, permanency, and wellbeing of children in need The role of a foster parent and the process of loss, and grief after a child leave their biological parents will be discussed. Research suggests that Courts has the final decision whether a child will stay in foster care or return home. This paper will describe the developmental impact that foster care has on children after losing their biological family. There are several risk factors associated with poverty. This paper will discuss the significance of children reuniting with their biological parents and/or being adopted for permanency. Empirical evidence from recent research confirmed that hard times during childhood was related to health problems later in life. Foster care reform, educational outcomes, economic incentives for adoption, mentors and home visitation programs should be implemented to improve the foster care system. Keywords: foster care, developmental, health problems, orphan trains Foster Care in the United States The prevalence rate is high for foster care in the United States. The history...
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...Youth in the foster care system repeatedly undergo multiple transitions before they reach adulthood. These transitions often create substantial amounts of stress and can intensify emotional and behavioral problems. With more than 29,000 young people exiting the foster care system each year, research has shown that these young people are frequently unprepared for their lives after foster care through findings of high rate homelessness, incarceration, unemployment and school failure (Greenen & Powers, 2007; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Furthermore, research also shows that less than 55% of youth who had exited foster care obtained jobs in the future that paid above the poverty line. Unfortunately, the young people aging...
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...America was undergoing issues with the foster care system. The problem was that there was too many children in the foster care system for an extended period of time. The president at the time, Bill Clinton, signed into law The Adoption and Safe Families Act (1997) (social work). This act was created because of the dramatic increase in the number of children in the foster care system. In spite of the number of placements for the children where drastically decreasing (hard knock life pg 376). The reason for the growth in quantity for children in the system was because of the rise of abuse in home (Illinois welfare). For the reasons illustrated above, the purpose of this policy was to keep children safe. Also, to move children through foster care more quickly. This will allow them to get a permanent home. Another purpose of this act was to provide services that are more effective for children. (Hard knock life 382). There were new provisions created to insure that the purpose of the act was followed through. Some provisions are to find an adoptive family or permanent home, the termination parents’ rights for circumstances, and providing states financial incentives for escalation of the...
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...As of 2014, more than 650,000 children were involved in foster care. More than half of these children were non-white (Foster Care - Children's Rights). The numbers continue to rise as years go by and we are seeing these children become products of their environment. Once they age out of foster care nearly a quarter are homeless, sixty percent of males have been convicted of a crime, and more than two-thirds of women have a child (Fessler). With all of these children under the care of the states, these children will soon age out and become members of our society. With almost forty-seven percent of former foster children being unemployed (CR Staff) they are contributing nothing to society, thus making this a huge societal problem. So, what happens...
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...CONCEPTS The Child Welfare System: Through the Eyes of Public Health Nurses Janet U. Schneiderman ABSTRACT Objective: This qualitative descriptive study investigates how public health nurses working within the child welfare system view the organization and the organizationÕs effect on their case management practice. Design: Semistructured interviews were conducted utilizing the Bolman—Deal Organizational Model. This model identifies four frames of an organization: symbolic, human resources, political, and structural. Sample: A purposive sample of nine nurses and one social worker was selected to participate in comprehensive interviews. Results: Data analysis identified two main themes. The first theme was the presence of organizational structural barriers to providing case management. The second theme was the lack of political influence by the nurses to change the structure of the organization; hence, their skills could be more completely utilized. Conclusions: Public health nurses who work in child welfare will need to systematically analyze their role within the organization and understand how to work in Òhost settings.Ó Nursing educators need to prepare public health nurses to work in non-health care settings by teaching organizational analysis. Key words: child protective services, organization, public health nursing. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how public health nurses working in the child welfare system in a large metropolitan...
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