My internship placement is with the Department of Children and Families Services in the Foster care Program. It is located at 2150 Westbank Expressway in Harvey Louisiana on the 6th floor. The Department of Children and Families (DCFS) is comprised of several programs such as Child Support Enforcement, Child Welfare, Economic Stability, and Child Development and Early Learning. The program that I work for is referred to as the Child Welfare. Child welfare is comprised of the following subprograms: Child Protection Investigation, Foster Care, Adoption, and Home Development. The Department of Children and Family Services is also split by locations. This split is generally made according to parishes. However, some parishes are serviced by others …show more content…
Foster Care offers the following programs: case management, guidance to families for reunification, help to get services from the community, ensure kids get appropriate education, maintain healthcare of child, and report to court system the family’s progress. The agency does refer clients to other agencies to fulfill the needs of the …show more content…
The first major source for funding is the state of Louisiana. The second source of funding is the Title IV E grant which is Federal funding. This grant came about as a result of the Social Security Act as an amendment and implementation under the Code of Federal Regulations. Spending is reviewed by the Children’s Bureau. Medicaid is another major source of funding for medical needs. Parents with children in foster care are supposed to pay a monthly fee totaling $25 per child; however it is rare that a parent pays the fee. They are not penalized if they can’t afford to do
Laura Finley states, “Indeed, restoration of the family is achieved in over half the cases of foster care, according to federal statistics. Where this is not possible, permanent adoption is the goal with about twenty percent of foster children. Other children are simply waiting until emancipation…” (Jacobs and Finley). The issue with this view on the foster care system is that its completely sugar coated.
I did most of my research online. My first piece of information came from a website based on Children 's Rights. This site gave me information about average ages in foster care, institutions, and group homes. This sight was very informal about the types of living foster kids can go through. The next site I visited was about What Foster Care is.
The foster care system shatters like broken glass and there is no repair for broken glass. Permanent damage can only be fixed with drastic solutions, redesigning the system is the method to follow. Foster parents go through hardships and trials while trying to adopt children. Children need stability and the parents willing to give them that they cannot be with forever. A reason for a shattered system is the result of a shattered admissions process.
The history of child protection in America is quite old and divided into three eras – first one expands from colonial period to 1875 which is referred as the era before the child protection became organized, the second era extends from 1875 to 1962 the era which witnessed the creation and growth of child protection with the help of NGOs and child protection societies, and the third era is the from 1962, known as the era of government regulated child protective services. The first organization that came into existence is The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1875, and prior to that the children hardly got any kind of protection. To specify some incidents; in 1809, a New-York shopkeeper was convicted for committing
For instance emotional disturbance, specific learning disabilities and autism (Hill, 2009). When a social worker takes a child into custody that child has just became a child of the state or some would say basically their child and responsibility. That leaves the social worker taking that child to doctor appointments and make sure the child is in a foster home that is taking care of the child’s need. The funding for this policy comes from the federal government, state systems, and local systems (A legacy training module from NICHCY, 2014). Most children that are in the system are supplied with Medicaid, and sometimes receives a check from the government if they are physically disabled or
Have you ever thought about how it feels to be ripped out of the only place that you know as home? To get no explanation of why your parents just did not want you anymore? Not a lot of people think about this. Usually, the only people that do think about this is children that are experiencing or have experienced this problem. The children’s rights website stated that, “On any given day, there are nearly 428,000 children in foster care in the United States.”
Common misconceptions associated with being in foster care portray youth in the system as orphans. Youth in foster care are supposedly delinquents, and will perform poorly in academics compared to their peers who are not placed in these institutions. In society, these stereotypes are often pretended, but very little people understand the circumstances and factors the youth in the foster care system are facing. Youth in care are often juxtaposed to their community counterparts, to signify the impact of being a ward of the state, rather than being with a family member.
There are many children that are stuck in the foster care system because they do not have a biological family or an adoptive
a. Foster parents can have an impact on the lives of a foster child by giving them a safe place to stay where they can feel loved and cared for. Foster parents can also provide the love and support that these children need especially if they came from an abused or neglected home. According to (Hasenecz, 2009) there have been several shocking stories about children being abused and neglected while in foster care or even worse reports of social workers who knew of the abuse and neglect and failed to report it or do anything about
A big problem in the system that they fail to see is abuse. Abuse can be done emotionally, sexually and physically also mistreatment and neglect, all done by these certified state caregivers. Liftingtheevil.org cites the "troubling statistics from one study, claiming that over 28% of the children in state care are abused while in the system"(2017). There are many stories of abuse, and the abuse comes from the foster parents. We expect the children to be placed in safe homes.
This solution will require the government to provide more funding for the foster system to hire more social workers. This will allow the cases to be more individualized for each child. Marion Becker, Neil Jordan, and Rebecca Larsen (2006) state, “Children in foster care also cost the Medicaid program a significantly higher amount for behavioral health services than non-foster care children. Medicaid-reimbursed behavioral health providers received an average of $210 per person per month for foster care children, compared to an average reimbursement of $26 per child per month for non-foster care children.” (p.639).
As a whole, the policy implemented by the Department of Job and Family Services could also have an impact on society. The United States spent almost $26 billion on child welfare services in federal fiscal year 2006. The federal government provided over $12 billion, state governments almost $11 billion, and local governments almost $3 billion (http://www.childwelfarepolicy.org/perspectives?id=0001). In most states, foster care children are eligible for Medicaid cards, including dental, medical, and counseling services; however, the financing structure has not kept pace with a changing child welfare field. The program is authorized by title IV-E of the Social Security Act, as amended, and implemented under the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 45 CFR parts 1355, 1356, and 1357.
They often make poor choices that lead to their children going into foster care. Foster care is the temporary placement of a child in a new home. Today, I will be explaining what foster care is, the effects of foster care, and the process of adoption after a while of care. On any given day, there are about 482,000 children in the foster care system. My hope for the future is that people can learn more about foster care and realize how big of a problem this actually is.
According to a Child Protective Investigation, there are approximately half a million children in the U.S. foster care system, otherwise known as congregate care (group homes and institutions). Children are placed in congregate care when they are found to be in an unsafe environment. Usually children of abuse or maltreatment are placed first (Font, 2015). Out-of-home-care causes increased problems of attachment, behavioral, and psychological disorders in the developing child. Child safety is the primary goal of out-of-home-care; however, maltreatment investigations are still reported in those institutions.
Literature Review Throughout the years, research has been conducted on the effects that foster care can have on children. In the United States alone, there are roughly 670,000 children who have spent time in the foster care system each year (“Foster Care,” 2017). Of those children, approximately 33% of them age out of foster care system. Studies then show that the foster care system has had varying effects on the children who are/have been a part of it. In many cases, studies have noted the effects of attachment for children in foster care.