Foster Care
Who do they try to place children and youth with after being detained, before placing them in a group home or foster home?
What is with family members
True or False?
Teenagers are the most difficult to foster.
What is False
Between 1870-1957 around how many children were send to Canada from Britain because of neglect & orphaned.
Approximately 100,000
(Family and Children’s Services, n.d.)
Name 3 reasons children are placed in foster care.
What is:
Neglect
Abandonment
Inadequate Housing
Abuse (physical and/or sexual)
Parental Drug/Alcohol Use
Domestic Violence
Incarceration
Parental Death
(Mkydev, 2021).
True or False?
LGBTQ youth are less likely to suffer from consistent harassment and abuse in foster care, juvenile justice settings and homeless shelters.
What is False
(OACAS Library Guides, N.d).
Approximately ___% of children in Canadian foster care reunify with their birth parents.
What is 52.2%
(Flourishing Foundation, 2021).
What Canadian culture is most vulnerable in foster care.
What is First Nations
(Until the Last Child, 2014).
True or False?
For every 1,000 youths in Canadian foster care, only eight go on to graduate from a Post Secondary School.
What is True
(Samson, A., & April, A. 2021)
What is the age that youth "age out of foster care"
What is 18
(University of Toronto, 2020)
What is the average age group of a child in foster care?
What is 10-14 years old
(Government of Canada, Statistics Canada, 2020).
Approximately ___% of youth in foster care identify as LGBTQ.
What is 30%
(OACAS Library Guides, N.d).
True or False
Approximately 8% of children in foster care experience Physical Abuse.
False
20% of children in the system are physically abused.
(Wikipedia, 2023).
There are approximately over ______ children and youth in foster care in the Canada.
What is 63,000
(Mkydev, 2021).
Name 3 of the most prominent worries of Teens in foster care.
Housing/ Aging Out/ Homelessness
Younger Siblings
Education/ Training
Lack of Employment
(Youth.gov. 2011).
Approximately how many youth age out of Foster Care in Canada each year?
What is 2,000
(University of Toronto, 2020)