Public vs. Private
Pays for the Public Foster Care Systems
Who is the Government?
One of the most prevalent, but least talked about reasons for why kids go into the social work system
What is poverty?
Type of degree must you at least have to be a Foster Care System Social Worker
What is a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work?
Number of kids in the foster care system in the U.S.
What is over 430,000?
A temporary service provided by states and social systems for children who cannot live with their biological parents
What is Foster Care?
Private Foster Care Systems responsibilities
What is their own recruiting, screening/ training foster parents, and providing ongoing support?
Reasons for a CPS worker to investigate for child negligence
What are flimsy allegations, anonymous tips, or professionals that are influenced by social bias?
Entry level position for most social workers going into the foster care system
What is a caseworker?
Percentage of kids in the foster system end up in a foster home with a non-relative
What is 47%?
These people placing foster children in permanent homes and ensuring their well-being inside the foster care system
What is the role of a social worker?
Times when Public foster care is used
When the child’s parents are unable to take care of them due to abuse, neglect, or mental health issues?
Homes that house 4-12 children intending to serve as an alternative to foster family homes. Oftentimes physical abuse, re-entry rates, and poor education outcomes are a result of this.
What are Group Homes/Group Placement?
To be a more significant figure as a social worker working in the foster care field, this is the type of degree & license you should obtain after the basics
A Masters degree in social work and a license in clinical work.
Largest age group of kids in the foster system
What are children ages 1-5?
The average length of time a child stays in foster care
What is 9-12 months?
During independent placement
When is a child placed with a family member or close friend with no relation to the child by blood?
Two of the places that foster children are being kept in due to the lack of foster parent availability
What are hotels, social worker’s offices, group facilities, or mental health hospitals?
You take this to develop and keep up to date on new interventions
What are Continuing Education Units (CEU)?
Number of foster homes an individual's first year in the foster system will live in?
What is an average of 4 homes?
The maximum amount of children in a foster home at a time
What is 8 children per home?
Goal of independent placement
What is to keep the child close to their extended family and community?
Number of children that are estimated to disappear from America’s Foster Care system per day
What is 55 children?
The Licensure Exam, ASWB, that is required to take by the state you plan on working for, tests for these things
What are tests skills and knowledge in social work-specific content areas, such as human development and behavior, social and economic justice, and intervention processes?
Percent of foster families with a child in the foster system that plan to adopt them
What is only 4%?
In 1853, Charles Loring Brance began this frees foster home movement after an influx of children living in neglected homes
What is The Children's Aid New York?