Foster care

My internship is with the South Carolina Department of Social Services, SCDSS, in the Foster Care Division. Children who are alleged to have been abused or neglected and who are not able to remain safely in their home environments and are unable to placed with a relative for fictive kin relative must enter a foster care setting. SCDSS overall mission it to provide services to children and their families to strengthen the family and that allows for children to remain safely in their home. This…

Every year, about 300,000 children are placed into out-of-home care due to abuse and neglect (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Many of these children already have siblings in the system. Sibling separation in foster care is a dilemma that many families go through when being placed into foster care. Brothers and sisters who have relied on each other for comfort and support through tough circumstances in their lives are forced to leave one another’s side for many reasons. Although…

the American taxpayers spent twenty-two billion dollars on foster care programs (ABC News 1). It’s a slightly sizeable amount, but it is put to shame when compared to the 600 billion dollars spent on the US Military last year (National Priorities Project 1) . Regardless, I have a solution for this seemingly excessively unnecessary spending. Even Wade Horn, the highest ranking federal official in charge of foster care says the foster care system is a giant mess and should just be blown up (ABC…

over 40 000 children Australia wide. This is how children in the foster care system live. The struggle of constant moving and change, unfortunately, has shown to affect the learning abilities of these children. 92 per cent of children in care score below average in literacy and numeracy skills and 75 percent do not complete high school. Through the help of The Pyjama Foundation, an organisation that works with children in foster-care to better their educational futures, these odds can change.…

Foster care are like toy stores, every foster child symbolizes a toy who has put on the shelf and has been labeled used, damaged, and/or out of date. Still they have the same dreams and aspirations as the new models, to go home with someone who will love, and cherish them with all their overflowing stuffing, missing button eyes, matted fur, and uneasy temperament because too often have they been thrown about and trampled on. Too long for any child or toy to sit and hope for something better to…

the Smith family, most of Renee Adams life took place within the foster care system. Renee’s involvement with the system began at the age of two when neighbors’ complaints about neglect prompted involvement by Child Protective Services (CPS). CPS worked with Renee’s mother for the period of one year but, after repeated failed drug tests and very little progress towards providing a safe environment for Renee, removal to foster care took place. After removal, reunification attempts went on for…

People should be more concerned about the dangers of the foster care system because of the commonality of child abuse. Imagine a world where children are born without a home. Imagine a world where kids are scared of coming home to intoxicated guardians. Imagine a world where a minor becomes a servant in their own home. Imagine a world where children are separated from the only family they have left. Imagine a world where children are punished with extensive beatings.This is the known world…

This research paper contains information regarding the challenges and issues within foster care. This research will be presented in qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, meta-analysis and literature review. Foster care is when a child has been removed, through no fault of his or her own, from their home and family due to concerns for their safety. The child may have been abandoned, abused or neglected and is in need of a temporary home placement. Whenever possible, they live with relatives…

Sibling foster children, Oma, Genesh, and Selina Seenanan, were replaced from the kinship foster home of Nandranee Seenanan (paternal grandmother) on September 16th, 2015. A report was received on the above date with the allegations of lack of supervision, burns, and inadequate guardianship regarding Oma, Genesh, and Selina Seenanan against Nandranee Seenanan. The foster parent requested this Foster Boarding Home Replacement Review because she opposes the replacement of the children. CASE…

A value that adherents see through foster care is to keep the child safe and to protect them from harm. In dangerous situations they believe that a child should be taken away from a bad home environment. In addition, when the child is away from the guardians who caused that child to be placed in a foster home, it makes it possible for the adults to take care of the problems they uncovered. An interest advocates have is supporting the new foster child and to help them to not be worried or scared…