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    Foster Care‚ Adoption‚ and Ecclesiology Anonymous Box #0000 Christian Worldview Development Some class section Some University November 14‚ 2013 In America alone‚ there are 500‚000 children in foster care. There is no excuse for the lack of adoption and foster care involvement‚ as 225 million people profess Christ in the US (Merida & Morton 51). Foster care and adoption‚ particularly of older children‚ should be regarded differently in light

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    Background of The Circle Program This research proposal will revolve around the Circle Program. This program is based on a therapeutic foster care model. It provides foster carers and their children support through a specialist team and trains foster carers to understand how trauma effects foster children (MacKillop Family Services n.d.). This type of foster care model supports youth work practice through having similar principles to the YACVic Code of Ethical Practice. Two principles of the YACVic

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    Casey Period 2 Mr. Fortier Orphanages‚ Foster care and Adoption junior thesis Living is a harsh time and community wasn’t only difficult for the parents‚ but for their children. Kids were put on the streets and left to strive for themselves‚ leaving most to die or take up harsh jobs which in the end‚ could kill you. The development of orphanages‚ foster care‚ and mostly adoption from 1900’s until present day‚ helped children from living in a bad home or the streets to having a stronger and

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    figure in the diagram below links to a specific decision point described in the paper‚ which begins immediately after the diagram. This chart provides a model‚ which highlights typical decision points on a child ’s journey through the current foster care system. Although the format is based on federal and common state law and practice‚ nevertheless it is only a model. Laws vary across states‚ as does the capacity and practices of child welfare agencies and courts to manage their caseloads.

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    Medicaid Foster Care

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    health services. Children in the foster care system represent a significant amount of people that require mental health services throughout the county. These children are a concern because they are at high risk for behavioral health problems and are considered a vulnerable population. When it comes to economic issues‚ Medicaid and foster care children researchers have stressed the significance of interpretation for expenditures and services. “ Children in foster care account for a disproportionate

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    The Foster System

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    Informative Essay: When Children Become Numbers Alex Wahl Sullivan University Eng 102 Urzuablaul‚ Allison 4/30/2012 The Foster Care systems that are in operation today are very minimally funded and provide a very low success rate of the children that come out of the foster child system in most states. Because of these facts‚ the media labels this system and not only a last chance scenario but also almost as a punishment for children because they were not adopted or have

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    Enhancing the Quality of Parental Legal Representation Act of 2013 is a newly proposed policy that is currently being reviewed in the House committee on Ways and Means. This policy is designed to aid in resolving the issue of children being in foster care for longer periods than necessary by providing the parents involved in the child welfare system with proper quality legal representation. As this issue and policy are reviewed it is necessary to analyze the nature of the cause of the problem‚ what

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    The Importance of the Foster Care System According to childwelfare.gov (2012)‚ there are about 400‚000 children in foster homes at any given time. The foster care system in the United States is a critical placement system for children in difficult family situations. Unfortunately‚ it has a bad reputation and the potential to damage the children involved further. Foster care‚ a type of out-of-home placement‚ is a government program created to be a “temporary injunction to

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    Foster Parenting Research

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    research of foster parenting was successful because I was able to answer all my research questions‚ and I found a lot about foster parenting. From all of my research‚ the three most important ideas I learned are the role of how to ba foster parent‚ not right to fail the children in the foster care system‚ and most of the children in foster care are getting abused. The first thing I learned is about is a foster parents role. A foster parents role is to make sure that they are helping the foster children

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    Foster Home Abuse

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    The challenges of being in foster care are many. Foster parents are expected to provide a safe environment and care for the children placed within their homes. Unfortunately‚ this does not always occur and some children are abused and often put in a worse situation than they were previously in. A study was done containing maltreated children and nonmaltreated in foster care homes to determine the research question “whether selected physical health‚ mental health‚ or behavioral child characteristics

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