...In the paper, the author evaluates the effectiveness of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) in addressing the issues surrounding foster care drift. The current definitions and statistics of foster care drift are presented, along with a brief history of children “lost in the system” in the United States. The AACWA is presented, along Title IV-E, a federal plan created by Congress that provides adoption subsidies to encourage permanency placements for children with special needs. The author provides current definitions related to the term “special needs” given by Congress, as well as the specifications a child must meet in order to be eligible to receive an adoption...
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...13 March, 2024. Foster Care Permanency: How its Absence Effects Youth Aging out of foster care and the brokenness within the foster care system have long-lasting effects on youth and families. At any given time in the United States, there are about 400,000 kids in care. The foster care system's goal is to unite youth back to their families, find permanent placement, and provide a safe, loving family for them in the meantime. Though there are good intentions, it still fails to fully achieve that, leaving lasting negative effects on its youth. According to the research, foster kids overall end up with much more negative outcomes, as the experience takes a toll on many aspects of their lives and can leave...
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... Fostering a Circle of Care On Thursday, November 22, 2011, I attended a foster parent recruitment meeting upon the insistence of my oldest daughter, Breanna. I had personally never considered becoming involved with the Foster Care Program, and knew very little about it outside of the knowledge that it serves children who have experienced abuse or neglect, by their birthparents and families or when there is no family available to care for them. Breanna, pulled on my heartstrings by telling me how much she loved me and how the foundational lessons taught and instilled during her fundamental years which help mold her into the woman she is today and how even if on a temporary basis, my love and nurturing could possibly change a child’s life. Needless to say, that got me. Upon listening to some startling statistics such as there are an estimated 408,425 children currently in the foster care system. With only 26% of those children living in relative homes, and almost half of them an astonishing 48% were living in nonrelative foster family homes. My immediate thought is how sad that our society has digressed to the point that you have this amazing amount of children living in a displaced situation. Since the main goal of the foster care program is the reunification of children with their families and the majority of children remain in foster care for less than 1 year. This really got me to thinking. Because...
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...history. | |Medical |After careful study, it was determined that my client suffers from paranoia and depression. Her promiscuous | | |past at no fault of her own has lead to these conditions. In addition, Violet also suffers from child | | |abandonment issues which created other unstabled relationships in her life. I will recommend that she is | | |prescribled a medication for depression and paranoia. | |Family |My client (Violet Doe) was in foster Care at 12-18 yrs – She did not have a healthy relationship with her | | |mother, father or other family members....
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...P2 Central Government Central Government aims to break the cycle of inequality and poverty using services such as the National Health Service, Department of Health, the National Framework Service for Children, Young People and Maternity Services and the five principles that are used to fulfil the basic needs of children and achieve their life goals. The principles are as follows: 1. Stay safe 2. Healthy 3. Enjoy and achieve 4. Economic well-being 5. Positive contribution. You can easily remember this why using SHEEP an acronym. The NHS - National Health Service – provides healthcare for all UK citizens based on type of healthcare they need rather than the ability to pay for it. It is all funded by taxes. It involves all types of healthcare including the care of children and young people with learning difficulties and disabilities. It holds the duty of providing the suitable resources and assistance for a family. Staff will work very closely with other agencies and a multi-disciplinary team may be involved in the overall care plan for an individual. It came around after the Second World War which ended in 1948. People of that time didn’t have enough money to pay treatments and so the NHS came into plan. Local Government Local government set up places and facilities that are available to the local people that are in need of help, for example extra-curricular clubs which are run by the local authority. Another example would be the Local Authority Children’s...
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...Youth in the foster care system repeatedly undergo multiple transitions before they reach adulthood. These transitions often create substantial amounts of stress and can intensify emotional and behavioral problems. With more than 29,000 young people exiting the foster care system each year, research has shown that these young people are frequently unprepared for their lives after foster care through findings of high rate homelessness, incarceration, unemployment and school failure (Greenen & Powers, 2007; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). Furthermore, research also shows that less than 55% of youth who had exited foster care obtained jobs in the future that paid above the poverty line. Unfortunately, the young people aging...
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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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...Foster Care in the United States Sue King Liberty University Abstract The history of foster care in the United States started with orphan trains and the Children’s Aid Society founded by Charles Loring Brace. Recent research describes the child welfare system as an organization that provides service to helpless children in need. This paper will discuss foster care as it is relates to safety, permanency, and wellbeing of children in need The role of a foster parent and the process of loss, and grief after a child leave their biological parents will be discussed. Research suggests that Courts has the final decision whether a child will stay in foster care or return home. This paper will describe the developmental impact that foster care has on children after losing their biological family. There are several risk factors associated with poverty. This paper will discuss the significance of children reuniting with their biological parents and/or being adopted for permanency. Empirical evidence from recent research confirmed that hard times during childhood was related to health problems later in life. Foster care reform, educational outcomes, economic incentives for adoption, mentors and home visitation programs should be implemented to improve the foster care system. Keywords: foster care, developmental, health problems, orphan trains Foster Care in the United States The prevalence rate is high for foster care in the United States. The history...
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...superior quality. High quality of production development diminishes the prime cost of th4e final product or service, sothe hospital gets an opportunity to avail customers with better prices. Concepts of Quality Management • Ensure your health care fits your needs and preferences (What is Qualityin Health Care, n.d). • Ensure that your health care does not cause harm (What is Quality inHealth Care, n.d). • Ensure that your health care is right for your illness (What is Quality inHealth Care, n.d). • Make sure that your health care is given without unnecessary delays(What is Quality in Health Care, n.d). • Ensure that your health care includes only the medical tests andprocedures that you need (What is Quality in Health Care, n.d). • Make sure that your health care is fair and not affected by such thingsas your gender, language, color, age or income (What is Quality inHealth Care, n.d). The Cleveland Clinics method of approach to quality management are toprovide lower healthcare cost, revenue generated , overall reputation, internal andexternal competiveness, motivate their employees and market and profit sharing. There are times where different terms or phrases can all be mean one and the samething therefore seek to achieve the same goal. With regard to quality management it Quality Management 3can be taken to mean: quality performance, quality management, performancemanagement, quality...
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...Imagine growing up, always moving houses and families, always prone to drugs or neglect. This is the reality of countless foster kids well into adulthood. Without stability and a family to love, they are at a disadvantage and are proven to have less academic and career success. Kids aging out of foster care tend to have lower graduation rates and have difficulty finding a job. They are forced to navigate a constantly changing life, which can lead to negative outcomes such as homelessness, financial struggles, and social anxiety. Shockingly, as of 2023, over 225,000 teenagers have aged out of the system. Only half of these children are reunited with their parents, and this number has decreased since 2021. Only 37% of teens in foster care are...
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...Juveniles in Foster Care According to Muller-Ravett and Jacobs (2012) every year, more than 25,000 young people age out of the foster care system, upon reaching adulthood usually at the age of 18. This number is far less than the 100,000 young people, with dual involvement, leaving juvenile justice facilities each year. Many studies found that 50 percent of youth entering the detention system have experienced with child welfare especially those who have languished in foster care. The most relevant act which address juvenile delinquency dates is “Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974” which states that incarcerated juveniles should be separated from adults and the courts are responsible to provide preventive...
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...Children Protective Service’s Preventing Child Abuse Many children suffer at the hands of adults - often their own parents. They are beaten, kicked, thrown into walls, and/or burned with cigarettes. They have their heads held under the water of toilet bowls, are scalded by hot water or they are forced to stand in freezing showers until they pass out. A child could be stuffed into running washing machines or sexually molested, suffer from neglect in the forms of starvation and lack of medical attention, and still go unnoticed by outsiders. In fact, it is estimated that three children die every day in the U.S. alone from one form of child abuse or another. It is a sickening practice that has no set standard of rules to finish off the persisting problem. Different states have different methods and agencies to help prevent abuse in the home, some work quite well while others bomb - a dangerous gamble when it comes to the life or mental state of a child. The precise number of deaths each year is not known because of the extent of most fatality investigations that could be suspected as child abuse but are seen as open and shut death cases. A report from the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, however, depicts more than three million reports of alleged child maltreatment practices in the year of 1995 alone. Many more children are living with abuse rather than dying from it, too. So what steps are being taken to protect our nation's children? All states have a Child...
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...Kids, there are over 14,000 children in the foster care system in Ohio alone. (Adopt Us Kids, 2013) If we factor in the entire United States, that number goes up exponentially. However, for the purpose of this paper, all references will be related to the needs of the foster children in Ohio. Unfortunately, what is discussed in this paper relates to the needs of the other 386,000 or so kids in the foster care system throughout the United States. That need, the one that is so important, is the fact that there aren’t enough foster parents. There are more children in the foster care system than there are parents to take care of them. Foster care can be considered a necessary evil. The end results are not always what we hope them to be, but without it, so many more children would be lost. An article, written in 1986, says it best: “Foster care is a necessary evil”, explained Robert Hayes, a lawyer with the Coalition for the Homeless. In a recent interview with Children’s Express, “There are times and places when parents cannot take care of their kids. But sometimes, children can live for 18 years in ‘temporary foster care’.” Hayes goes on to say: “this accounts for why these children never learn many of the appropriate tools of life”. (Lin, Zelermyer, Young & Young, 1986) This paper, written in 1986, tells of the same exact issues that are faced today. Children are often forgotten about or misplaced because of the demands placed upon foster parents and social workers. Having more qualified...
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...structural barriers to providing case management. The second theme was the lack of political influence by the nurses to change the structure of the organization; hence, their skills could be more completely utilized. Conclusions: Public health nurses who work in child welfare will need to systematically analyze their role within the organization and understand how to work in Òhost settings.Ó Nursing educators need to prepare public health nurses to work in non-health care settings by teaching organizational analysis. Key words: child protective services, organization, public health nursing. The purpose of this exploratory qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how public health nurses working in the child welfare system in a large metropolitan county in California view the organization. The study utilized the Bolman—Deal Organizational ModelÕs (1997) four frames for organizational analysis: symbolic, political, human resource, and structural. Public health nurses have joined social workers in providing care...
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