Foster Care Basics
The primary goal of foster care.
What is reunification with birth parents?
True or False: Most children in foster care have experienced trauma.
What is True?
As of 2024, approximately the amount of children in foster care in the U.S.
What is about 390,000?
The monthly payment foster parents receive.
What is a foster care stipend?
For extra points (500), list off 5 other services provided to foster parents and what they do.
This NFL star and philanthropist was once in foster care.
Who is Michael Oher?
The age a child typically age out of the foster care system.
What is 18 (or up to 21 in some states)?
The official term for a youth's transition from care to independence.
What is emancipation?
*For extra points (100), what age is emancipation in Michigan?
The percentage of foster youth who experience three or more placements within a year.
What is about 15.2%?
The service that helps foster youth plan for college or a job.
What is independent living or transition support?
This actor starred in Guardians of the Galaxy and spent time in care.
Who is Chris Pratt?
The term for a court system that handles cases involving child welfare, including foster care and parental rights.
What is a Dependency Court?
The type of plan created for each youth in foster care.
What is Case plan?
The racial groups most overrepresented in the U.S. foster care system.
Who are Black and Indigenous children?
*For extra points (200), list 2 reasons why this can occur.
The mental health service often needed by foster youth.
What is trauma-informed therapy?
This poet and author was raised by her grandmother and in foster care.
Who is Maya Angelou?
The definition of kinship care.
What is care provided by relatives?
*For extra points (300), name and define the two types of kinship care!
The meaning of ACE.
What is Adverse Childhood Experiences?
The percentage of former foster youth that experience homelessness within four years of aging out.
What is approximately 25%?
The government program that provides health insurance to foster children.
What is Medicaid?
This rapper and actor lived in group homes in New York.
Who is Ice-T?
The difference between foster care and adoption.
What is temporary vs. permanent custody?
The meaning of CASA.
What is a Court Appointed Special Advocate?
The percentage of former foster youth that earn a four-year college degree.
What is about 3% to 4%?
A residential facility where multiple foster children live under the supervision of trained staff.
What is a Group Home?
This child welfare advocate was once in 14 foster homes.
Who is Jimmy Wayne?
*For extra points (400), list 2 other important foster care/welfare figures.