FOSTER CARE PLAN

Foster Care Plan

Foster Care Plan

Scenario

Greater numbers of young children with complicated, serious physical health, mental health, or developmental problems are entering foster care during the early years when brain growth is most active. Every effort should be made to make foster care a positive experience and a healing process for the child. Threats to a child's development from abuse and neglect should be understood by all participants in the child welfare system. Pediatricians have an important role in assessing the child's needs, providing comprehensive services, and advocating on the child's behalf.

Background

The developmental issues important for young children in foster care are reviewed, including: 1) the implications and consequences of abuse, neglect, and placement in foster care on early brain development; 2) the importance and challenges of establishing a child's attachment to caregivers; 3) the importance of considering a child's changing sense of time in all aspects of the foster care experience; and 4) the child's response to stress. Additional topics addressed relate to parental roles and kinship care, parent-child contact, permanency decision-making, and the components of comprehensive assessment and treatment of a child's development and mental health needs.

Goals

To provide orphans and homeless children a dood foster care home and assisting and supporting them in education.

Mission

To support the homeless and helpless children and help them to complete their education.

Literature Review

Standards-based school achievement is among the largest main concerns for our community. Yet, a sequence of nationwide and worldwide studies assessing educational, social and occupational conclusions for young kids in foster care tell us the vast most of children who go in the protection of state foster care do poorly in school. This exactly impacts their skills as unaligned adults.

In national studies between 30 - 60% of young kids who emancipate from foster care at age 18 graduate from high school or own a GED. A latest review of Washington State youth emancipating from foster care indicated that only 30% emancipated with a high school diploma or GED.

There are numerous research-based practices that positively sway the school achievement of misused and neglected children. no one of these practices have been systematically directed in Washington State or elsewhere. Without purposeful interventions to advance the purposeful skills of these abused and neglected young kids, this community is condemned to have another lifetime of juvenile mature persons who go wrong to take care of themselves and their young kids, going into the welfare, communal service and lawless person justice system as single parents, homeless and jobless. Because of farthest transience, and early informative neglect, these children are improbable to be considerably influenced by actually well liked, building-based and classroom-based school reform measures.

Strengths

More children are entering foster care in the early years of life when brain growth and development are most active. During the first 3 to 4 years of life, the anatomic brain structures that govern personality traits, learning processes, and coping with stress and emotions are established, strengthened, and made permanent. If unused, these structures ...