Foster care is a system where a child is placed into a temporary or permanent home in order to provide proper care to children who need a home for a variety of reasons. For this cross cultural experience‚ I decided that it would be most beneficial to attend a foster child’s home and interview the direct source itself. Before this experience I expected the child to be living a completely different lifestyle from me. I also anticipated him to be severely influenced by all the changes in his life and
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Foster Care is designed as a temporary service that responds to crises in the lives of children and families‚ giving the help that they need to have a happier healthy life. Most children develop a positive relationship with their parents as they get older to become a better person and do the same thing; giving support to other children who are willing to be a part in your family‚ like they are your own. You can have a tremendous impact on a child in need by opening your home and your heart. Foster
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1-14-2013 Professor Valerie English Thesis paper Rough Draft Statement: Upon ageing out of the foster care system‚ foster kids end up either dead‚ homeless or incarcerated due to lack of independent living skills and lack of knowledge about programs in their communities! Due to many children being so displaced and neglected‚ it is hard to provide for children because foster homes are overcrowded. Due to lack of financial stability roughly 20‚000- 100‚00 children in the United States
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Every year more that 20‚000 children will “age out” of foster care. These youth face extreme obstacles including the expectation that they are now adults and able to self-manage out in the world. Many of us are lucky enough to be raised by supportive parents who we can turn to long after the age of 18 for encouragement‚ reassurance and direction in our lives. The majority of these children have not finished high school and are unemployed. How can we expect them to go out into the world without the
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The topic of foster care is highly complex and the present literature review only skims the surface. There a many factors to consider when trying to understand the link between foster care placements and academic success. Factors such as resilience‚ family support‚ mental stability and‚ financial stability require in depth examination. Therefore‚ in order to better perspective on the issues‚ systematic research is needed. A potential study which may begin to examine some of the critical factors
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to the youth‚ they are at the lowest of their life and they need all of the help they can get to turn their lives back into the right direction. The biggest reason for all of these negative outcomes would be placement instability. As a child in foster care‚ they are never ensured that they will live in one home. More often than not‚ youth are bounced through several different homes. Transitioning to many different homes brings the emotions of feeling unloved to an all time high. The more a
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By dictionary definition foster care is a noun meaning‚ “supervised care for delinquents or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home” (dictionary.refernce). According to federal definition “foster care is twenty-four hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the stat agency has placement and care responsibility.” This also includes placing them into foster families‚ foster homes of relatives‚ emergency shelters‚ group living
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Foster care started in the 1500’s because of the overwhelming number of children without parents and‚ therefore‚ homes. The biggest reason there were so many children without guardians was because this was a time when many people had to resort to indentured servitude to survive. There were also many more people dying from now-preventable or now-curable diseases‚ and when parents died‚ their kids would join the other orphans in the streets. The number of children on the streets was a problem for many
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The group in which I chose to observe was a foster parent support and training group. I work in the field of foster care‚ so I chose the group carefully to ensure that participators did not know my profession‚ I had no previous interactions with any of the members in the group‚ and I announced myself as merely an unbiased observer and was allowed to sit quietly in the back of the group. The participants in this group ranged from kinship families with grandparents‚ aunts and uncles‚ and even siblings
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SOCIAL CARE THEORY FOR PRACTICE (OUTCOME 1) ASSESSMENT 1 (1500 words approx.) (12th October 2012) Coco J Hendry Page 1 Introduction Page 2 – 5 Assessment Page 6 Conclusion Page 7 Reference/Bibliography 1 The following essay will demonstrate my understanding of the importance and relevance of values to social care by explaining how social care values and principles influence practice. I will then explain what relationship my value base has with social care values
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