Background
True or False: Foster care is intended to be a temporary living situation for children until they can return to their families or be placed up for adoption.
What is True?
Children enter the foster care system when they cannot safely remain with their __ due to issues such as abuse, neglect, or other challenges
What is Parents/Relatives
True or false: Are interactions with relatives with children in foster care important for the child's mental health?
What is True
This type of care in America provides temporary homes for children, often due to family crises, with around 30% of kids staying for over two years.
What is Foster Care?
This issue in the foster care system is characterized by a shortage of homes, making it especially difficult for children over the age of 8 to find suitable placements and leading to increased instability.
What is the lack of foster families
This type of job is to make sure kids have support as they take care of new kids in their homes.
What is Caregivers?
The percentage of kids who stay in foster care after 2 years
What is 30-40%
When children in foster care reach this age, they often find it especially difficult to find families that can provide the nurturing and support they need, impacting their overall well-being.
What is 8 and older
What important process helps figure out what's going on in a family's situation, provides support when they need it, and looks at options for placing kids safely if they can’t stay at home?
What is child welfare assessment?
This situation often arises for children placed in temporary homes, making it difficult for them to keep contact and connections as they move to new environments, particularly when they are adopted.
What is losing contact with friends/relatives
This phase often poses challenges for young people who have spent time in the foster care system, as they seek to gain life skills and support systems necessary for success as they enter adulthood.
What is transitioning out of foster care?
What is the organized plan that aims to get children in foster care with their families, involving services like counselling, parenting classes, and necessary support to address challenges at home?
What is a reunification plan?
This term describes the emotional impact on children who experience frequent changes in their living situation, often leading to feelings of loneliness and uncertainty as they adapt to new homes.
What is instability?
This problem happens when kids in foster care don’t get the medical help or counseling they need, which can cause serious health issues and emotional struggles
What is mental and physical health issues?
This one-word term is used to describe helping kids in foster care by prioritizing living with relatives, giving extra help at the start, keeping siblings together, and ensuring they're healthy and have support.
What is Kinship (will accept if kin or relations is in the answer)