The purpose of this essay is to discuss my intervention as a co-worker whilst on placement as a student social worker in a Children`s social care team with two unaccompanied asylum-seeking teenage boys from North Africa. Our role was to meet with the boys, get to know them and, assess their needs and help them settle into their new home. I will reflect on my practice which is underpinned by the components of good practice including skills and knowledge, personal...
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In today’s society, many children face many challenges from a young age in regard to their living circumstances and conditions. This correlates to how they live at home, the people who are in the household, and how they interact with one another. The expectations for families are that they provide security and stability. I believe that children belong with their parents; taking children away from their parents is very traumatic, and the care they receive in a foster care home...
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In chapter four of The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Dr. Perry writes about a rare case of a four-year-old girl who is underweight. Laura, the four-year-old girl, cannot seem to gain any weight despite being provided a high-calorie diet. Laura has visited several specialists and has undergone several tests but doctors are unable to find the root cause to her sickness. A psychologist even thinks that the child might have infantile anorexia. Dr. Perry, a psychiatrist, is...
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How has Social Policy Shaped Foster Care Practice in the Australian Welfare Context? Reviewing the history of Foster Care, it must be recognized that Foster Care practice has not been able to make substantial and measured improved outcomes for children. Rather, despite decades of policy change, strategy and foster care change, the system has only been able to improve within the lower levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (safety, physiological) (Hopper, 2020) Baber (et al, 2003) asserted that Foster Care...
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Program Purpose The purpose of this primary program is to prevent the aging out of youth and young adults in Baltimore Public Schools within the foster care system through the increased awareness and ultimately the adoption of these youths. The Arc Baltimore (https://www.thearcbaltimore.org/programs/family-services/foster-care/) will attend the educational programs and awareness campaigns over the course of a year to teach about the foster care system and the type of situations that teens face as they age out of the foster care...
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Significant Issues Faced by Youth Aging out of Foster Care In 2018 there were over 438,000 children in the United States foster care system and more children are being added every day (“Foster). These children have often seen or felt horrible forms of abuse or neglect. They are usually left in the system for months at a time and some children will spend their entire childhood in foster care. However, once a foster youth turns 18 or 19, depending on...
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Elijah Emanuel Yates is a six-year-old boy that was in foster care in Martinsburg, West Virginia for about a year. His parents were both drug addicts, and he watched them overdose multiple times. His dad also beat his mom. He was put into foster care until his mom’s rights were terminated, and an adoption family was chosen. This is the story of many kids in Hillsborough County Florida, however there are not many happy endings. Foster care is a problem...
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The most interesting thing that I have learned in these chapters is the removal of Native Americans called the Mohicans, who were located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. I am actually not too familiar with this topic but I was very intrigued to read and learn more about the issue. A current topic that I am a bit familiar with is kids aging out of the foster care system and I felt that these two issues are very relatable to one another....
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Attention- Aviana and Alake. (Pause) They were born October 6th, 2017. Aviana enjoys eating goldfish, playing outside, and riding on little toys. Alake enjoys eating eggs, playing with blocks, and playing outside with his twin sister. These kids seem to be your typical toddlers, but they are not. Their lives started completely different than most peoples have. Their dad passed away from a terminal cancer when they were just a month old. Aside from losing one parent, their mom was...
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The teen — who cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act — pleaded guilty to a raft of charges and was sentenced at Regina Youth Court this week. Among his charges were several counts of discharging a firearm and several counts of breaking and entering and vehicle theft. The most serious of the incidents were a series of shootings. One, on June 9, involved someone shooting at the back door of an Athol Street house. Five people were...
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To foster is to take care of a child, usually for a limited time, without being the childâs legal parent (Cambridge Dictionary). There are different types of fostering, namely long term, short term, family and friendskinship, emergency, respite, remand, fostering for adoption, and specialist therapeutic. Whilst different qualifications may be needed for each type, the application process is the same. Easily accessed In 2020 there were 71,150 foster carers in England, with 9,510 fostering households were successfully approved from 2019-2020,...
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As the existing literature has shown, there are many interrelated factors that contribute to sexual victimization in youth post-foster care. Firstly, it is important to reflect on how adverse childhood experiences set forth a trajectory of risk for sexual victimization in foster care youth. Studies have found that the existence of child abuse, both sexual and physical in nature, was correlated with an increased risk for sexual street victimization later (Tyler & Schmitz, 2018). It was also noted that a...
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“An Experiment in Zero Parenting” by Eliot Marshall ia an article that discusses an experiment done by the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) in Romania. In the 1960’s the dictator felt Romania’s population needed to be boosted, so he started taxing women for having less than five children with no consideration about their financial and physical abilities to care for any or all of the children. This left a heavy burden on Romania to take care of these children when...
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Family Equality Council: The Want for Equilibrium The LGBTQ community has been fighting for family equality since before the legalization of same-sex marriage. A leader in the push for equality of LGBTQ families is the “Family Equality Council,” which is currently celebrating 40 years of fighting for families within the LGBTQ community. “The organization has progressed legal and public equality for LGBTQ families, and those who plan on creating their own, through reconstructing the community to accept differences, change people’s...
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Introduction There is an assortment of ways that the youth can be pushed into juvenile and adult justice systems. Many factors may contribute to the reason why the youth eventually end up in prison. These factors include, but are not limited to, school systems and the child welfare system. In this paper, I will be focusing on the foster care system. The foster care system is broken in many ways and children can endure serious harm as a result. I...
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Intro Delinquency among adolescent females in foster care is an issue that has been analyzed and looked into for many years. From the years 2009-2013, adolescent youth ages 12-17 compromised about 38% of the 402,378 overall youth in foster care nationwide, with adolescent females accounting for 30% of juvenile arrests ( Lind & Sheldon, 2014, p. 2; Sarri, Stoffregen and Ryan, 2016, p. 191). Some of the risk factors that lead to delinquency amongst this population are substance use, mental...
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One of the purposes of the U.S. child welfare system is to reunify children with their parents or to offer children permanency, or long-term, living arrangements rather through guardianship or adoption. In 2016 alone, over 100,000 children were removed from their homes and placed into foster care (“Number of Children”, 2017). As a whole, there are over 430,000 children in the United States foster care system and approximately 112,000 of these children are waiting to be adopted (Ahmann,2017). Based on...
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As structure changes in the family, children have to pay the price of it. Children in the home may lose the comfort of a balanced household, or even a school to call theirs when the parents decide they are no longer in the picture. This is an issue that is not looked at often, and ignored quite a bit from society and the government. Without a foster care system, children would be left with nothing, not even hope that a...
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Foster Care Foster homes, currently in the state of Alabama, house approximately 6,000 youth (under 21) in the foster care system. Internationally in the US there were over 670,000 in the foster care system. The idea of foster homes in America was birthed from the English Poor Laws. These laws, before Charles Bruce’s influence, made it possible for citizens to take in beggars and displaced youth in exchange for indentured servitude until adulthood. The origins of Elizabethan Poor Laws began...
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“Instead of growing in my belly, you have grown in my heart” by an anonymous person. What this quote tells me is even though she might not have the same DNA, be related that she is still a mother that can still have a natural maternal heart for “her child” and that she loves it like it was her own. Children are placed in foster care for all different type of reason, physical abuse, neglect, runaways, etc. They have a...
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The foster system is in place to aid children whose parents or families cannot take care of them, the system creates a nurturing place for children to grow up in temporary placement until they can be reunified with their families or when a permanent home has been found for them. Many children have entered the foster care system due to caregivers being unfit to care due to addictions, abuse, incarceration or death; at such young ages, children do not understand...
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Foster care system is one of the biggest crisis that America is facing today. Foster care refers to a minor who faced neglect or any abuse and is a place in a ward, group home, or a private home care giver. This event means the government has a sole custody of the child. The government governs the child’s well-being. Foster care was founded to provide the proper care of these children that were abused or neglected. According to the Psychology...
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Have you ever heard anything dealing with the issues of the foster care system lately? Well, to begin with, the foster care system, is a government program where children are placed in if they ever become an orphan or are taken custody of by the child protective services. Each year thousands of children are placed in foster care each year and the majority of them enter the system due to neglect or abuse. All of these children need to deal...
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Benjamin Eaton was America’s first foster child at 7 years old. Since then, Charles Loring Brace started the free foster home movement in 1853. Now, there is approximately 440,000 foster youth nationwide. When it comes to the topic of foster care, most experts will readily agree that emancipating youth do become homeless. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of why they become homeless. Whereas some are convinced that it is due to their behavior, others maintain...
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Abstract Efforts at child protection are structured by the policy regimes in which they are enmeshed (Edwards, 2016). According to Nesmith, Patton, Christophersen, & Smart (2017), the goal of the US foster care system is to provide safe, stable, nurturing home environments for children who cannot safely live with their family of origin. Child welfare wanted to come up with an achievement that would help the foster system. This provoked the idea of having a child go from foster care...
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Foster care is a temporary home for children who cannot live with their family’s. It sometimes does good and helps kids find a good and healthy home to live in with a supportive family. It also has many flaws. Foster care needs to change because kids age out of foster care with no support, children’s needs go unheard, and there are many abusive and neglected foster homes. One of the worst things about foster care is that the children’s needs...
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To be able to completely recognize and understand the full policy and programs, knowing how and why they were developed is important. Background information will also be vital to thoroughly grasping their purposes and goals. The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program, and John Burton Advocates for Youth will be broken down in order to explain the issues they are attempting to resolve. The importance of these issues will...
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Unfortunately, not all women who give birth to a child have the requirements or the proper conditions to raise one. Many children around the world are left with improper care due to inadequate parents. Parents that may have substance abuse problems or even physically abuse their young ones. Therefore, a system was put in place to come to those in need of help: Foster Care., introduced through ideology in religious books, the concept has been developed into a system where...
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Approximately 700,00 children are abused each year in the United States. (National Children’s Alliance) Fortunately, there are organizations that have been put in place to help intervene in the event that parents are reported for potential maltreatment of their children. With good intentions, the foster care system was put in place to protect these children, and save as many children as they can, however it can prolong their trauma and prevent them from moving on and living like regular kids;...
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Raising an abandoned or orphaned child as their own family was easy back then. It took an informal arrangement, once the family and the child are in common ground, both are in good condition. Numerous people are considering adoption as an alternative to growing their family. There are numerous benefits of adopting a child. However, adoption is expensive and takes a long process. Many have pondered that if there are many orphans, why cannot they be adopted by families at...
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