Foster Parent Two: Kenneth draws his experience in working with children through his personal life; most specifically working with his own child and wife who both were considered to have special medical needs. He raised his three children, one of which was born with her bladder on the outside of her body. His youngest daughter, Misty, had to remain in the hospital for the first 30 days of her life due to her condition. His first wife Vickie was sick with heart disease and diabetes during her and Kenneth’s relationship. Kenneth recalls being on the road a lot taking either Misty or her mother to the doctor, and visiting the Emergency Room frequently because of their medical needs.…
I am the new foster care caseworker for Josilynn Breeden (DOB 0730/2007) and Hayden Breeden( DOB 12/11/2009) from Caritas Family Solutions and I am writing to seek out of these two clients were patients of Dr Uraiwan Tana Hompluem, MD. I have enclosed the consents of release for information for medical records if the clients were patients. When there is new medical records/visit available please either fax me the records or mail them to me at: 645 Berkshire Blvd., E. Alton, IL 62024. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated in keeping their case file up to date and accurate. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at the number listed to the…
Focus: Jordan will maintain compliance with all rules of the home and school on a daily basis.…
Does it ask all of the necessary questions to determine what the client’s present problem is?…
The purpose of this evaluation is to find out if teenage girls who are preparing to “age out” of the foster care system have implemented the life skills they have learned upon completion of the GRL program. This type of evaluation is an impact evaluation, it is used to assess whether or not the intervention being evaluated has had the desired effects on its target population. This evaluation will support the GRL program facilitators in analyzing and measuring the effects the program has had on the girls’ overall choices and behaviors after completing the program.…
Have you ever been taken by (defects) foster care. Well, foster care is a temporarily arrangement in which adults provide for the child or children whose birth parents are unable to care for them. To determine whether Phony boy Curtis goes to foster care or stays with his brothers will have to acquires him of staying out of jail, correcting his bad habits, and having a stable environment. One way that Phony boy Curtis goes to foster care is that he will have to stay out of jail. There will not be any fights, but with the people who supposedly adopted him a least for about a couple of weeks or days. There will definitely not be drug realization, nor be in a gang related apparel, but if happens he will be took to a new home. The second…
Which means, they are involved with foster care because they may not be able to have children of their own, their own children are grown, religiously motivated, or they were once in the foster care system themselves. Non-related foster care providers have more resources available to them for children in recovery. There is also extensive training for non-related foster care providers, so that they know how to handle children in recovery. The disadvantage of nonrelated foster care is that “when children are placed in nonrelative care, both the children and caregivers will require time to forge attachment bonds.”(Font 2076) These relationships are even more difficult to formulate due to the fact that the children in non-related foster care tend to move around more often and have a less stable environment than that of children in kinship programs. Caregivers in non-related foster care may not be invested in the overall outcome of the…
to take on the responsibilities involved in raising these children, a burden the state would have to finance should the children be placed in foster care. Such financial hardships may contribute to the complex nature of the child/caregiver relationship. In many instances, relative-caregivers can help prevent children from being exposed to chaotic or neglectful living conditions that perpetuate the possibility of problems in later stages. Relative-caregivers can provide the familial…
Kinship care is defined as foster care. The term is currently used to define out of home placement. Kinship care is not considered to be a permanent solution; it’s more of a temporary solution. Relative adoptions however function a bit differently. Legislation requires relative care givers to meet the same licensing standards as non- relative caregivers, although the same services are not provided. Generally relative caregivers are not provided with the same financial support that non- relative caregivers are.…
My grandmother encountered various forms of child fostering in her life. Kwun grew up with a distant cousin her parents took in after his parents died, leaving him orphaned at age eight. She adopted her oldest child, a victim of attempted infanticide, who was abandoned on the streets. In Asian societies, infanticide is a common practice for families who desire sons in order to pass down their family wealth. Kwun also simultaneously raised her sister’s daughter along with five of her own children when her sister and her sister’s husband relocated to Hong Kong. There was no difference between how biological and adopted children are treated, just like in clan families. To this day, Lin refers to her adopted sister’s children as her niece and nephew and my sister Elis and I address them as our cousins. We are just as close to them as we are with our cousins whom we are biologically related…
When a child or adolescent poses challenging behaviors, there is a lack of permanence in a foster home which results in numerous amounts of new placements. These new placements and foster parents increase the instability of positive outcomes and/or healthy attachments which hinders their future relationships. Those feelings can create a sense of worthlessness, lack of trust, and an unstable adulthood. Overall, the environment where the child is placed can destruct the self and possibly create negative outcomes that affect others as…
For all the kids in abusive, neglected, or abandoned home situations, the foster care system is there to help. It gives kids a temporary stable home until a permanent home can be found. Foster parents dedicate their time and open their home up to children they do not know just to try to better that child’s life. Even though this system has done numerous great things for children throughout America, there are any issues with the foster care system. Children that age out of foster care need more guidance and support to have a chance at a successful future. Additionally, the foster parents need support through this process. They try their best at creating a stable home for these children, but they face hurdles just like the foster children do.…
Foster care started in the 1500’s because of the overwhelming number of children without parents and, therefore, homes. The biggest reason there were so many children without guardians was because this was a time when many people had to resort to indentured servitude to survive. There were also many more people dying from now-preventable or now-curable diseases, and when parents died, their kids would join the other orphans in the streets. The number of children on the streets was a problem for many reasons, including moral obligations, excessive thieving problems and the vandalization of homes and businesses. The government had to come up with a way to get these kids off the streets, and their solution was foster care.…
In one study about how children perceive relationships, it was shown that foster children often put more importance on siblings. This may be due to the structure of a dysfunctional family unit. Siblings rely on each other more than in a functional situation. Taking the time to maintain those relationships may be the key to helping foster children…
Harden, A. W., R. L. Clark, and K. Maguire. (1997.) Informal and Formal Kinship Care. Washington, D. C.; U.S. Department of Health and Human Service.…