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Reasons for Foster Care
YFS Words
Abbreviations
Legal
100
Indicated by unexplained bruises, welts, burns, and other wounds on a child
What is physical abuse
100
Children who have been abused are temporarily placed in an agency approved, licensed home.
What is foster care?
100
CPS
What is Child Protective Service?
100
Includes concepts of a child's sense of time, as well as a child's need for safety, well-being and permanence.
What is best interest of the child?
200
Indicated by children who are underweight, have poor growth patterns, are consistently hungry, receive a lack of supervision and etc.
What is neglect?
200
A legal way to transfer parental responsibilities from one parent to another parent.
What is adoption?
200
PP SW
What is Permanency Planning Social Worker?
200
policy and/ or law that limits information that maybe discussed about children and their families.
What is Confidentiality?
300
Children who do not have an adult that is able and/or willing to be responsible for them.
What is Dependency?
300
Includes physical, emotional, social, mental and moral/spiritual healthy development of a child
What is well being?
300
TPR
What is Termination of Parental Rights ?
300
law that guarantees that relatives and extended family will be considered for placement of a child.
What is Fostering Connections ?
400
Indicated by a child's disclosure and a combination of physical indicators including difficulty in walking or sitting, pain or wound in genital area
What is sexual abuse?
400
The efforts made by team members, such as foster parents, birth parents, social workers, to assist children with returning to their family of origin.
What is reunification ?
400
CFT
What is Child and Family Team Meetings
400
Federal law that guarantees that children will be placed with families based on their needs instead of racial and ethnic identity.
What is MEPA?
500
The two main reasons children come into care in Mecklenburg county.
What is substance abuse and domestic violence?
500
The assurance of that a child will have a forever home
What is permanence ?
500
YFS
What is Youth and Family Services?
500
This law is meant to preserve Native American heritage through placement.
What is ICWA?