Social Welfare Policy Analysis
According to the Alliance for Children’s Rights in Los Angeles County, nearly half of two-thousand youth, who age out of foster care, end up homeless or incarcerated. Social welfare policy in this country is in desperate need of repair and reform. This analysis is not only based on the Alliance for Children’s Rights statistics but on my own personal experiences and testimony, as a product of the foster care system. Foster parents and group home staff should not only be required to take educational courses for dealing with behavioral and emotional conditions but be educated in other child developmental studies as well as the reunification of the family.
Due to my mother’s mental instability and my father’s acts of domestic violence at the …show more content…
As a result of my behavioral issues, and in accordance with policy and procedure, I was then placed in special education programs. From the lack of proper parental nurturing and a lack of certain social skills, I was transitioned into an unstable classroom with other students with behavior problems. Instead of solving the behavioral issue from the core, I was placed in another hostile environment again in accordance with current system policies, perpetuating the cycle of negative reinforcement. It is my belief that changes within the current system must be made to develop a generation of successful …show more content…
As a product of the foster care system, I provide first-hand testimony to the ineffectiveness of the current system. As a result of mismanagement of behavioral issues, students that lack proper social judgment are transitioned into special education programs. These classrooms are non-conducive in promoting healthy mental wellness. To promote a righteous social welfare system, it is my belief that equal opportunity, mandated courses in child development be made available to both parents. In situations where parental rights must be revoked, the child will be placed in temporary housing facilities filled with trained personnel equipped in dealing with behavioral, developmental, and social welfare. Reunification should be the number one priority of any social welfare policy, but it all starts with
Due to my mother’s mental instability and my father’s acts of domestic violence at the …show more content…
As a result of my behavioral issues, and in accordance with policy and procedure, I was then placed in special education programs. From the lack of proper parental nurturing and a lack of certain social skills, I was transitioned into an unstable classroom with other students with behavior problems. Instead of solving the behavioral issue from the core, I was placed in another hostile environment again in accordance with current system policies, perpetuating the cycle of negative reinforcement. It is my belief that changes within the current system must be made to develop a generation of successful …show more content…
As a product of the foster care system, I provide first-hand testimony to the ineffectiveness of the current system. As a result of mismanagement of behavioral issues, students that lack proper social judgment are transitioned into special education programs. These classrooms are non-conducive in promoting healthy mental wellness. To promote a righteous social welfare system, it is my belief that equal opportunity, mandated courses in child development be made available to both parents. In situations where parental rights must be revoked, the child will be placed in temporary housing facilities filled with trained personnel equipped in dealing with behavioral, developmental, and social welfare. Reunification should be the number one priority of any social welfare policy, but it all starts with