Non Related Foster Care Case Study

Children in recovery that have been removed from their homes due to unsafe conditions end up in Out of Home Care (OOHC). The two most significant styles of OOHC are Non-related Foster Care and Kinship Foster Care. 1 in 4 foster care children are placed in kinship programs, whereas 48% of children go into non-related foster care.
A kinship program helps to connect children with a family member whether by blood, marriage, or adoption. A benefit for a child that goes into a kinship program is that it keeps the child in a normal environment and is less upsetting to their routines, and most of all, they have better outcomes when placed with family. Kinship programs can keep the child with their cultural ties and often the children already have relationships with their caregivers so there is less adjustment and bonding time needed. The child Ken that I observed, although he wasn’t formally removed from his home, he was in a form of a
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