a reporter for InvestigateWest‚ states‚ “The largest driver of the young adult homeless population is the foster care system” (Smith). The United States Foster Care System is imperfect in many ways from how it is organized to how it is executed. The largest problem‚ however‚ is foster youths who age out of foster care without any guidance or support. Once an adolescent in the US Foster Care System turns 18‚ the state is no longer required to provide support for the adolescent‚ subjecting them to
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While there have been numerous reforms made to the child welfare system in Tennessee in regards to providing care for the children‚ one area that desperately needs to be defined is the provision of care while these vulnerable children are in the custody of the Department of Children’s Services. Currently there is no policy that addresses the responsibility for making sure that these children are provided healthy and timely meals while being held in the local office or while during transport from
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the foster care system that engrosses me the most. This issue has been near and dear to my heart for a very long time and is the reason I decided to go into social work. Growing up with an Aunt who raised and adopted foster care children allowed me to see a lot of issues that I would not have otherwise seen. One of the first issues is the number of children that are in the foster care system. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 402‚378 children were living in foster care
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“More than half a million children are in foster care in the United States today—roughly double the number who were in foster care in the mid-1980s‚ according to the Child Welfare League of America (Nakyanzi).” Kids being placed into foster care are kids who have been abused and neglected by their own loved ones‚ and instead of helping the kids mend the broken family‚ they pull them apart by sending the kids to foster home after foster home. Foster care was meant to help and protect kids from abuse
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The relationship between a social worker and the children they represent in the foster care system evolves many different emotional connections. Social workers provide counseling and direction to people in crisis. Their clients may vary from the young and older unemployed to young children who are in need of foster homes right on down to the elderly people who have no one to care for them to provide for them or even someone to love them. They try to better the clients by helping them obtain government
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Foster Care System: Children without families SOC 331: Social Justice and Ethics Bernie Colon November 14‚ 2011 Raising children is one of the most important responsibilities in any society. Today‚ working parents have many options‚ but what about those children who have neither a mother nor father? What about those children who come from broken and abusive homes? In such cases there are often few choices. Parentless children may be placed in orphanages or in foster homes. Ideally‚ foster care
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Treschl English 1410 6 May 2011 Foster Care: The Bad the Good and the Solution The father is an alcoholic‚ the mother is perfectly fine and the child shows no signs of abuse‚ neglect or foul treatment; however Dad came to school intoxicated one day‚ now as a social worker you have to get involved and decide what to do. RRRemoving the child from the home has to be the best idea right? The home is unsafe and the child is in danger t the best idea must be foster care. However did you consider the
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Though the system has its pros‚ it also has his cons but there are solutions being made to solve some of these foster care problems. Caseworkers having too many children to keep a record of‚ children’s placement being moved around too much‚ and even bad experiences with the system‚ in general‚ are all problems being faced in foster care. Some things are being done to help make things easier for both the child and caseworkers’ side of the problems. There are new apps being made to help caseworkers
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their child in foster care is only a temporary solution in order to stabilize the family and protect the child. Legally‚ once the child is in state custody‚ the parents no longer have control of what is going to happen to their child. Although the parents maintain their rights‚ the state now provide and maintain the welfare of that child while the parent(s) complete the goals given to them to regain custody (Koocher‚ 1990). The child also has rights while they are placed in foster care. They have
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ARRANGEMENTS Whilst the Foster Care Unit would prefer that foster parents be the ones to supervise and care for new born and very young babies‚ it is understood that this is not always possible. It is however recommended that the foster parent/s be present to provide care for the baby at least for the first week or two in order to allow sufficient bonding to occur. If however‚ day care services are required to attend to the needs of the baby during the day‚ it is important for the foster parent to provide
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