...Our Foster System Children are the backbone of any society. They represent what will come of that future society. Unfortunately, not all children are cared for, this can be a problem when we look at how children in the foster care system will grow up. When looking at the present time, there is major flaws in the current foster care system. The children today are not being properly taken care of. There are many reasons including: Poor funding, lack of homes, and settling issues. Overall, the flaws are making an unstable households and the issue must be fixed. The foster system of today is broken, the child inside are struggling mentally and physically; the system needs to be improved, the opposing view would be that foster care is successful...
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...Youth who age out of the foster care system are vulnerable to adversity. Research shows that half of them age out of the system without a high school diploma, employment, or housing security (Stott, 2011). Furthermore, about 25% of young adults have reported substance use and 15% have dependence disorders. The youth population in the American foster care system is five times more likely to be diagnosed with substance abuse disorders than others who are not in the system (Meyers, Kaynak, Clements, Bresani, & White, 2013). According to Garcia and Courtney (2011), 19.2% of youth in the child welfare system met the criteria for substance abuse and dependency. When adolescents are in the foster care system for long periods of time, which is usually...
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...“Eighty percent of adolescents entering the foster care system have severe mental health problems” (Source E). Children in the foster care system have experienced trauma, abuse and neglect, and counseling is an effective non-drug solution. However the majority of these children are misdiagnosed; foster children are prescribed psychiatric drugs instead of counseling or other non-drug alternatives. These misdiagnoses are then added to a child’s medical history, which lacks consistency from constantly being transferred to different homes. Overhauling America’s foster care system will be challenging and strenuous, but is a necessary step in improving the welfare of foster children, who spend on average over two years in purported temporary placement...
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...Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state-certified caregiver which is called a foster parent. More than 463,000 children are in the foster care system. The living arrangements for foster care children are exceptional. The placement of the child is always arranged through the government or a social-service agency. Children had been physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, or their caretaker isn’t stable enough to take care of the child which result in the Child Protective Services removes the child from the home. Once this goes into effect the child is place into three possible temporally living arrangements which are foster home, group home, and kinship home....
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...The foster care system is when a minor is placed into a group home through the government's social service. Many kids who go into care today are victims of either violence or sexual assault. Not only that but on any day 415,000 kids enter the U.S foster care system. But only 59% of them are actually adopted each year. The greatest problem that I see facing society today is how corrupt the foster care system is. In order to help solve this problem I plan on understanding how the system works, giving , and get people to see many problems with foster care. The child welfare services investigate possible reports of child abuse or neglect. Some kids have relatives that could’ve saved them from being in foster care. But for most kids their...
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...Children and adolescents in the foster care system are at a higher risk for psychopathology than other children in the general population in our country. In February of 2015, Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisconsin) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) introduced the bipartisan legislation to improve foster care services for thousands of vulnerable youth in America. This bill would improve health care and mental health services to children and young people in the foster care system to ensure that effective community-based options are available for them and their families. “Therapeutic foster care, often referred to as treatment foster care (TFC), is the evidenced-informed trauma-informed and highly effective placement of children and youth with serious medical,...
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...about The Foster Care System. There are hundreds of thousands of kids that have been taken away from their home either from neglection, abuse etc and put into terrible temporary homes. We have forgotten how awful these kids’ situations are. The Foster Care System is broken and we need to help fix it. People need to advocate for these kids. Some kids are being put into dangerous homes. Foster kids may be abused in their foster homes as well as their biological families’ homes. They are not guaranteed safety. Liftingtheveil.org states, “over 28% of children in New York alone are abused while in ‘the system’” (The Foster Care System and Its Victims: Part 2). A solution to this would be doing monthly or weekly check ups in the homes that the kids are placed in, depending on the severity of the child’s background. Another solution could be making the background checks even more thorough. Some foster parents are just not cut out to be parents, and that needs to be recognized....
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...Foster care is an arrangement where a minor is placed under the care of a group home, ward or private home that has been certified by the government. There have been concerns that foster care services has inadequately delivered a high-quality of care for minors, and after so much criticism society has questioned the future reliability of foster care services. Much criticism has been directed toward the inadequacy of key requirements which has in turn undermined the success of foster care. The foster care system has been facing problems relating to finances, little or no training to the care givers, and inadequate access to respite are (Reinhard, Gien, Petlick, & Bemis, 2008). In addition, the children under this care achieve little in their education and development is below average. The aim of this paper is to analyze the inadequacies facing the foster care system, the effect these inadequacies have on children and adolescents in foster care, and theories coined for explaining these problems....
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...In today’s society raising children is one of the most important responsibilities of any parent. It is unfortunate that some children grow up without the opportunity of having a family to love and raise them. No mother or father to guide them down the right path. More unimaginable is that there are children growing up with parents or family members that are abusive. Children that are being raised in abusive homes and neglected environments are reported to social services and removed from their homes and end up being placed into Foster Care. Children, especially very young, require a stable environment. The Foster Care system is intended to temporarily protect and nurture children whose parents are unable or unwilling to care for them....
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...When a foster youth turns 18, he or she suddenly goes from being part of “the system” to being on his or her own. Many of them will drop out of school, end up unemployed and some will find themselves living on the streets. Frankly speaking, transition can be rough. According to the 2013 edition of Factsheet for Families, of the Child Welfare Information Gateway, “Youth in foster care face not only the typical developmental changes and new experiences common to their age, but also the dramatic change from being under the State’s care to being on their own. This is particularly true for those youth who “age out” of child welfare as they turn18 (or the specified age for their State.) The array of services and supports available to youth while...
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...Chat 1 In this chat we discussed a one of the most vexing problems that California currently has. This problem is to provide high quality public education to all students and especially children in the foster-care system. As we talked about what resources are available for foster students, to achieve academic, academic and development, we have realized that we don’t know much information about available resources. LCAP funding, RTI, counselors or intervention teams are the first resources that came to our minds. We also discussed the confidentiality of the student records and how to identify Foster Youth students at school. Principal’s leadership to deliver this information to teachers will be a helpful step to identify these students without...
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...Psychotropic drugs are a serious issue in the foster care system in America. As the need for more medication for adolescents affected by psychological disorders and behavioral issues increases the government provides an additional excess in psychotropic drugs for proper dosage. In light of this, the foster system tends to overdose hyperactive or poorly behaved children in order to control their erratic mood swings and behaviors. These children are prescribed these drugs because they were likely treated improperly and now suffer with psychological issues. In most cases it is evident that the most misbehaved children are the ones who tend to be prescribed a surplus of these medications because prescribers believe that more medication implements more control over the child and their behaviors. Policies have been implemented...
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...The Foster Care Systems Dark Side ` Foster kids are not a form of income but they are sometimes treated like one. Most foster kids are in the system from a past of abuse of their former guardian but sometimes they experience more abuse in foster homes. Some may say that the foster care system is great because of no matter where they are its better than being homeless and having nowhere to go. Not helping a child through childhood trauma can lead to bigger issues in the future and often in foster homes the issues such as these are pushed to the back burner. It is important for these kids to get help so they do not affect them in the future. It can already be a struggle to be in the system but to age out of the system is another story....
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...For this paper, I have selected to analyze the 25-year inflation record of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Convertible Mark. I have chosen this country and there inflation record for a couple of reasons. The number one reason being I spent nearly a year living in BiH. I experienced firsthand the hyperinflation the country suffered from. The BiH’s economy was devastated by civil war that broke out after the death of for former ruler of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito. Substantial progress has been made in economic improvement since peace was reconstructed in the republic. Inflation has remained low since reunification however, that was not always the case. Growth has been uneven. Privatization has been slow, and unemployment remains high. Bosnia's economy is boosted by its effective denationalization of the banking business. The tourism division has been improving and helping the economy, with popular winter skiing destinations. However, political corruption is one of the more acute problems in the country. Due the the fact that BiH was not a Country until after the civil war, inflation records are not available for the past 25 years. Below is the inflation rate on average consumer prices in Bosnia for 1999 to 2012. Year Inflation, average consumer prices 1999 2.758 2000 4.906 2001 4.614 2002 0.313 2003 0.547 2004 0.282 2005 3.582 2006 6.126 2007 1.495 2008 7.433 2009 -0.381 2010 2.123 The reason for inflation in BiH is similar to any other country. As the...
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...The safety of children should be one of the main goals throughout the world. Foster care is something that can help children stay safety. In the 1800s, people started to do something about children who were not taken care of. It started when children were told to work in the fields and in the house with their parents instead of getting an education. The children, therefore, set off to New York City. When they reached New York, they were taken by families that were going to help and not force them to work at such a young age. The main issue that raised awareness were cases involving parents harming their children. Some cases the children would pass away because of health issues. In the first article, Amy L. Ai et. al. (2013), writes about...
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