Evaluate the organization’s involvement and responsibility to the community. * * Foster care is temporary and a resource home needs to be a safe and nurturing environment for the child in foster care while a permanent plan is made. Reunification with birth family is the goal for every child who enters foster care. If the child cannot go back, the next option is placement with relatives. *
Summarize what factors have influenced the social responsibility strategies of the organization. * * When children have to be removed from their homes the ideal place for them would be a relative/friend’s home that they are familiar with, a home in their neighborhood and school district, a culturally similar home. Most of the time this does not happen. Children are often placed in families and areas that are completely unfamiliar to them. In addition to having to deal with the trauma of leaving their homes and families, they must transfer schools and get acquainted with a new community. *
Does the organization have a social initiative? If so, what is it? If not, identify a social initiative for the organization.
That’s where you come in…we need Resource Families of every cultural background, in every community in Hawai‘i.
Give the gift of foster care… be there for a child and their family when they need it most. *
What are the potential ethical or moral effects of the organization’s social initiative or potential social initiative? *
In the past, families are known to have treated the foster kids different from their own children
Families have taken in foster children just for the $$$
Generally, a child in foster care may not share a room with an adult, but may share a room with other children of the same gender.
A household must be able to show that regular household expenses do not exceed monthly household