policy formulation
Removing children out of their family nucleus is definitively a traumatic situation and placing them into a foster care program that barely helps them overcome their pain an even disturbing situation. In most cases, these children are not able to find a stable family that would offer them the support they need and are often placed with unqualified families. As a result, these children social and emotional development is affected. For these reasons, the government has reformed the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (FCSIAA) in order to improve the foster care system and recruit new families (David Crary 2008). However, it will be very important to analyze the positive and negative outcomes of this new reformed policy.
After reading this article, I notice that the government wants to improve the lives of children who are taken out of their families’ nucleus and placed in the foster care program for a variety of reasons. In their struggle, the government have reformed the “FCSIAA” in search of obtaining positive impacts that would ameliorate the children’s lives and the recruited prospective foster families. For instance,
* This reformed policy will provide foster care services to young people up to the age of 21 instead of 18 something that will give more time to these young people to stay afloat.
*It will also require agencies to keep siblings together when they enter foster care. This will help provide emotional support, companionship, and comfort in times of change. This is a privilege that will help them cope with the anxiety of being placed in a new home.
*This policy would also provide more financial incentives for children with special needs, and it will be no longer limited to those who come from low-income families.
*Finally, another positive impact of this new reformed policy is "kinship care" will be eligible to receive financial assistance since before it was not considered eligible but instead, part of the family
After reading this article, I notice that the government wants to improve the lives of children who are taken out of their families’ nucleus and placed in the foster care program for a variety of reasons. In their struggle, the government have reformed the “FCSIAA” in search of obtaining positive impacts that would ameliorate the children’s lives and the recruited prospective foster families. For instance,
* This reformed policy will provide foster care services to young people up to the age of 21 instead of 18 something that will give more time to these young people to stay afloat.
*It will also require agencies to keep siblings together when they enter foster care. This will help provide emotional support, companionship, and comfort in times of change. This is a privilege that will help them cope with the anxiety of being placed in a new home.
*This policy would also provide more financial incentives for children with special needs, and it will be no longer limited to those who come from low-income families.
*Finally, another positive impact of this new reformed policy is "kinship care" will be eligible to receive financial assistance since before it was not considered eligible but instead, part of the family