health services. Children in the foster care system represent a significant amount of people that require mental health services throughout the county. These children are a concern because they are at high risk for behavioral health problems and are considered a vulnerable population. When it comes to economic issues‚ Medicaid and foster care children researchers have stressed the significance of interpretation for expenditures and services. “ Children in foster care account for a disproportionate
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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‚ and its effects on the children and families involved‚ are debatable topics in our country. Foster parenting is where a child is placed into a new home because of danger in their own home. There may be physical‚ emotional‚ and mental consequences for the child‚ the biological parents‚ and the foster parents. Usually‚ children are put into foster care because of child abuse‚ drug abuse‚ or another situation which puts the child’s safety at risk. Foster care may also be an option when
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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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Problems in Foster Care Foster Care is a system for kids that are not in a healthy home or that do not have parents. Kids that are in Foster Care suffer from the sense of being left alone‚ from being unwanted‚ and being lost. These things create life long problems and an unstable emotional life for kids in the system. Children in the Foster Care system is overflowing‚ the time children spend in the system is incredibly wrong‚ and many children suffer from abuse in their household that they are placed
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how to balance our studies‚ work and family demands. While we want happy fulfilling lives outside of family‚ work and school‚ we have to make personal sacrifices in order to be successful in life. Since time is precious‚ keeping a balance between three worlds can be a challenge. Fortunately‚ with proper planning‚ balance is possible. Every day‚ I have to make choices and manage my time incredibly well in order to be able to balance my online studies‚ my work and family demands. In my opinion family
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The challenges of being in foster care are many. Foster parents are expected to provide a safe environment and care for the children placed within their homes. Unfortunately‚ this does not always occur and some children are abused and often put in a worse situation than they were previously in. A study was done containing maltreated children and nonmaltreated in foster care homes to determine the research question “whether selected physical health‚ mental health‚ or behavioral child characteristics
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For the Foster Children Foster children undergo a variety of treatments in the modern foster care system. A child can be moved between homes multiple times‚ and nobody will be there to stop the constant movement for them. Some of the children endure physical and emotional abuse during their time in the foster system‚ and the ones that cannot endure the abuse tend to run away from “home.” The vast majority of these children go their whole lives without knowing who their birth parents are because
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“Adolescents and children that enter the foster care system are a highly traumatized population‚ with higher rates of trauma higher than the general public (Miller‚ Green‚ Fettes & Aarons 2011; Salazar‚ Thomas‚ Gowen‚ & Mark 2013). “One study found that the overall trauma rate of exposure for youth in foster care was double that of the general public and very similar to that of urban young adults and yet the rate of PTSD was higher in foster care youth‚ 18.8% compared to 8.8% of trauma exposed urban
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For Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair Crystal Taylor‚ at the age of fourteen‚ gave birth to her son Daquan Drummond‚ on October 7‚ 1984. Crystal went into labor unexpectedly and prematurely. Little Daquan was born two months premature and weighed three pounds six ounces‚ born with a heart murmur and slight difficulty breathing. When Crystal was faced with the caseworker from social services‚ she realized that she would only be dismissed from the hospital with little Daquan‚ if the caseworker was
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