Foster Care

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1	Working Bibliography					Andrea Baltazar WEST HOUSE

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3	9/2/2011	1	ENCY (encyclopedia)	Foster care: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foster_care	Foster care is intended to be a short term situation until a permanent placement can be made. Adoption and Foster care is just in case the family members don't want to stay in charge of their child. Each year about 123,000 are waiting for adoption. The average length of foster care about 31% of childrens stay there for a month to a year.
4	9/2/2011	2	ARTL (article)	Foster Parenting : foster summarization http://www.fosterparenting.com/foster-care/foster-parenting-articles.html	Foster care is a program, run by the state which allows foster parents to adopt and take care of a minor children who have been removed from their bilogical parents. In this article also says what are the requirements to become a foster parent such as background check, first aid certification, medical clearances and etc.
5		3	ARTL (article)	Fostering Perspectives: What I'd Like Foster Parents to Know: Expectations and Desires of a Social Worker: by jennifer Mntsinger, vol.3, No.1, Fall 1998 http://www.fosteringperspectives.org/fp_vol3no1/what_id_like_foster_parents_to_know.htm	Foster care kids have been hurt because they always want to be with their real family, but how they don't love them that is why they send them to foster care. If you want to adopt a child the social worker will help you out, they will tell you if its the right choice. The social workers will also go check up on you to see if your parenting it doing good and to see if you need any support. The social workers have to talk alone with the child to see if they like their new home and if the parents are been good to them or not.
6	9/2/2011	4	ARTL (article)	Children Aging out of the Foster Care System Face Difficult Odds: by Shelly Seale Published: Feb. 25, 2008 http://blogcritics.org/culture/article/children-aging-out-of-the-foster/	this article talks about children who been suffering in their life and now they been send to foster care either because abuse, neglct, or truama. Children in foster care system often experience a few factors such as loosing their birth home and parents, and dealing with truama of abuse or neglect.
7	9/9/2011	5	ARTL (article)	Foster Care Adoption: How does the system work? by: Admin http://adoptiondelights.com/2011/05/17/foster-care-adoption-how-does-the-system-work/	This article explains how the system works, at first when they put children in foster care is for at least one relative to pick them up if not the child is send to another family who is willing to take care of him or her. If a family ants to adopt the chil, the child is to remain in foster care till the home becomes approved by the foster care workers.Some kids end up going back to their biological parents but thats foster care worked see if its good to send the child back
8	9/9/2011	6	ARTL (article)	Fostering and Foster Care ( The adoption history project) http://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/topics/fostering.htm	In this article it talks about history of foster care. Its were childrens were cared for homes other than their own. Henry was the first to find out that children were orphans and were scared and became ill and died. That is why they decided to have foster care were they can be send to a family that will love them and take care of them.
9	9/9/2011	7	ARTL (article)	Foster Care: information http://www.faqs.org/health/topics/98/Foster-care.html	In the early days children were placed in foster families because either their parents were sick, or unable to take care of them, but also some because their real parents died.
10	9/16/2011	8	BOOK	Adoption and Foster Care by: Kathylyn Gay	This book has a story of a young girl who's her parents died and she got send to different families and now shes looking for her adoptive mother. There is some of the infants who wait have been abandoned or turned over to child care centers because their parents cannot provide for them. The children who wait longer in foster care are those who are mental, physically handicap, or have emotional problems, behavioral problems, and also learning disabilities those are the children who stay there longer.
11	9/30/2011	9	BOOK	Adoption and Foster Care by: Kathylyn Gay	The purpose of foster care is to provide temporary around the clock care for children until they can return money to their parents or be placed with an adoptive family. When adopted the adoptive children, the children belongs to their adoptive parents and have the legal right as do birth children in those families. Many people wait long that prospective parents think they are too old for adoption. Their are some teenagers that still want to go back to their original parents but they have to stay in foster care till they are able to maintain themselves independently.
12	10/7/2011	10	ARTL (article)	When fostering child goes wrong: What it feels like.. By Vanessa Diffenbaugh	Its about a young girl who needed a home and love so vanessa and her husband wanted to adopt her even though they were having a baby. They wanted to adopt her because they really thought they could of helped her out and because she was enjoying been with them. After she gave birth the girl Samantha saw her like her own little sister she would take care of her just the way her new parents Vanessa and her husband did.
13	10/7/2011	11	ARTL (Article)	You will never see your child again By: Simpson J. (2011, Sep, 04) Http://search.proquest.com/docview/887452254?accountid=10357	This article explains how two parents had some obese children and the social workers would see them and said if they don't loose weight then they would have to take their children into foster care. Apparently they couldnt reach the goal on time to loose wait so the social workers took away their children they were able to g visit them once in a while but after a while when they saw the parents wouldnt change the diet then they decided to put the childrens in adoption.
14	10/7/2011	12	ARTL (Article)	Foster Care system is always in need of help.By: Ames, Ann Marie ( sep. 12, 2011) Http://search.proquest.com/deocview/890562006?accountid=10357	Ryan wants every children in foster care to become happy and everybody to have their own home. She has many foster care kids living with her for the mean time she loves every kid with all her heart she doesnt want to see them hurt at all. She feels that they deserve more. such as me she wants to help them out and hope they get a better life than what they have right now.
15	10/14/2011	13	ARTL (Article)	Facts for families http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/foster_care 64; May 2005	Children in foster care often struggle with the following issues: blaming themselves and feeling guilty about removal from their birth parents, wishing to return to birth parents even if they were abused by the,feeling unwanted if awaiting adoption for a long time feeling helpless about multiple changes inf oster parents over time having mixed emotions about attaching to foster parents feeling insecure and uncertain about their future reluctantly acknowledging positive feelings for foster parents That is the main thing families need to know in order for them to know how to help them out.
16	10/14/2011	14	ARTL (Article)	Social Work Today March/April 2009 Issue Fixing Foster Care — 5 Strategies for Change By Nadine M. Hasenecz	The social worker today is that they have to support all type of children and they help them out and see what they do and help them out find a good home. There suppose to go once in a while and surprise them and also have conversations with them.They also make sure they get good education.
17	10/14/2011	15	ARTL (Article)	Social Workers Make a Difference in the Lives of Children in Foster Care	More than 168,000 social workers strive each day to improve the lives o children and families.
18	10/21/2011	16	ARTL (Article)	A Critical Look at Foster Care System: How widespread a problem? http://www.liftingtheveil.org/foster04.htm	One of the main problem many girls in foster care go through is sexual abuse. There has been sexual abuse by the foster fathers who adoptive girls and then end up abusing them. A good way to help out that and prevent it to happen is that the social workers have to check every memeber in the family's background before they give them the child and also the social workers have to be checking up on them most of the time to prevent bad things to happen to the poor children. Some of the childrens have been beaten, chained, tied up, kept in cages, handcuffed , and also been drug abuse. Every foster care child has been through many abuses, and thats why they end up been bad and wanting to destroy their own lifes because they think that they wont ever have a good future or life or also somebody who will care for them.
19	10/21/2011	17	ARTL (Article)	Adoption and Foster Care tip sheet- Helping children find permanence. http://www.helpstartshere.org/tip-sheets/adoption-and-foster-care-tip-sheet-helping-children-find-permanence-a-guide-for-foster-parents.html	How the adoption works in foster care, when a child agency removes a child from his or her biological family, the agency assumes legal responsibility for the child's care. The biological parents retain their parental rights only until the court determines the child will be able to return back to their biological parents. The foster parents have an important role that meanwhile it can be rewarding but also challenging. Most cases the role of been a foster parent is only temporary depends on the child's situation. The child has the right to deny every right about their biological parents and can just be with their new adoptive family. Sometimes the child wants to know who are his or her real family and they want to know why their biological family left them and sometimes its right to let them know about their background. Also, the biological parents sometimes don't want to be to far away of their children but when they do they miss the chance of seeing them grow.
20	10/21/2011	18	ARTL (Article)	Child abuse and foster care. http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art45552.asp	This article was a little story about a young boy who was in foster care and was adopted and lived in a new home, his been through abuse while he was with his biological parents. He was going though a lot and one time he went inside a closet and decided to kill himself cause he thought it would of been the best way to not be suffering from the abuse and neglect.
21	11/4/2011	19	ARTL (Article)	Predicting success in foster placement: the contribution of parent child temperament characteristics by Jenny L. Doelling, Ph. D, and James H. Johnson, Ph. D http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/hennesda/matching/temperament%20matching%20-%20doelling.pdf	mentions the different characteristics of the children how foster care system work with them to help them not have abusiveness, neglect, trauma
22	11/4/2011	20	ARTL (Article)	Helping Your Foster Child Transition to Your Adopted Child Series: Factsheets for Families Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway Year Published: 2005	Talking with children about the changes and preparing them for what else would occur to them such as adoption, school and many other changes. Activities to help children understand their own history and background, if they ask about their background talk to the social worker first to see if its fine if you could talk to them little by little about their background and real family.
23	11/4/2011	21	ARTL (Article)	Helping Your Child Learn Responsible Behavior	says how we should help out the children and educate them by showing them how to have better behavior with others and so they will live a normal life, or maybe they can feel better and not traumatize.
24	1/6/2012	22	ARTL (Article)	May is National Foster Care Month...You Can Change a Lifetime! http://www.fostercaremonth.org/Pages/default.aspx	There will be less children in foster care if only they provide the support and services to help families, because some kids are in foster care because of the economy how parents cant afford having a familly. Right now there is less kids in foster care than there was before, but they still do need a lot of help and support.
25	1/6/2012	23	ARTL (Article)	HEALTHY CHILDREN : HEALTHY ADULTS http://www.fostercares.org/Default.aspx?tabid=83	It explains on how to have a child healthy once he or she has been through a lot with their biological parents. And how some children will react with certain things some may react normal and many will not.
26	1/6/2012	24	ARTL (Article)	How to help Foster Children Overcome Trauma and Aid Attachment http://christianfostercaresa.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/how-to-help-foster-children-overcome-trauma-and-aid-attachment/	In this article it mention about the traumas some children have, once this traumas happen is hard for the child to express emotions and develop relationship. they can help a child with traumas by healthy dose of time, effort, and patience. It also mentions the different personality disorders they have
27	1/13/2012	25	Interview 2	Rupa Patel- coordinator in think together	She gave me advice on how to treat kids and also gave me information on her background
28	1/20/2012	26	ARTL (Article)	Vol. 10, No. 1• November 2005 Trauma and children: An introduction for foster parents http://www.fosteringperspectives.org/fp_v10n1/trauma.htm	explains some children get nightmares regressive behaviors, depression, and acting out because it impacts the children for everything that has happen to them. Some children also been through death they either see some family members or someone they care for and they en d up been traumatize. All children enter foster care with a variety of memories: some happy, sad, and of course some worse than sad
29	1/20/2012	27	ARTL (Article)	Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/siblingissues/siblingissues.pdf	there has been some issues of the children in foster care who have siblings and that they move to an adoptive family that didn't even care for them only for the money they were earning because of them they kept treating them like slaves not like their kids, the social workers wouldn't do much for them. After a while they realize they were been miss treated so they finally got send to a nice lovely family they lived happy, until one day the adopted dad passed away so they girl became old enough and the siblings ended up splitting up and they were not happy anymore
30	1/20/2012	28	ARTL (Article)	Life as a Foster Child http://www.squidoo.com/lifeasafosterchild	A young girl in foster care didn't live well with her foster parents, so they say she should be grateful to the foster parents but she says why should she. She didnt want to go home because her biological parents were psycho. she perfer staying in the hospital where they did care for her
31	2/3/2012	29	ARTL (Article)	EDUCATION: The need to improve educational opportunities for children and youth in foster care http://www.nationalfostercare.org/policy/educationyouth.php	Foster children are rare to stay in one single school because they move houses each time they don't stay with one adoptive parents they go to one and another all the time, the range of foster kids graduating high school is 70%. But then, the college enrollment is very low.
32	2/3/2012	30	ARTL (Article)	Programs http://fc2success.org/what-we-do/programs/	Success is not easy for foster kids they have to over come from obstacles, but they also come from lack of family support, financial aid crisis, etc. There are special programs that are been held for kids in foster care they help them out with their education only if they commit to it and will go and pay attention. This one girl wanted to quite but after they told her about the programs once she received the package she decided not to quite and work harder
33	2/3/2012	31	ARTL (Article)	BARRIERS FACING FOSTER CARE YOUTH: National and Local Statistics about Emancipating Foster Youth http://www.heysf.org/pdfs/HEYFosterYouthStatistics.pdf	This article shows statistics in foster youth of the average in the graduation rates, as 70% of teens want to attend college, but 75% of children in foster care are behind grade level.
34	2/10/2012	32	ARTL (Article)	Foster Parents Make A Difference http://www.hss.gov.yk.ca/pdf/fosterparents.pdf	The difference the foster parents do from helping out the children in foster care, Fostering is caring for children who cannot live with their families. The goal is for the children to return home when their parents are able to care safely for them.
35	2/10/2012	33	ARTL (Article)	CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES http://www.fcdss.info/cps.htm	Child Protective Services is a statewide program designed to protect children while helping families.
36	2/10/2012	34	ARTL (Article)	Educational Outcomes for Children and Youth in foster and Out- of-Home care	Children have an average of one to two placement changes per year while in out of home care. The education for children in foster care are dismal
37	2/10/2012	35	ARTL (Article)	Graduation rates are low for teens in child protection system	The graduation rate are different depending upon the race, geography, gifted and talented. Some don't graduate because of the way they lived, abuse, neglect, not supported, financial, or they just dont care anymore
38	2/17/2012	36	ARTL (Article)	How do I become a foster parent?	to become a foster parent you have to start with receiving information about the child, then your suppose to take the child to have meetings so they will get use to the foster parents before adopting. make sure you know every little detail from the child.
39	2/17/2012	37	ARTL (Article)	What's different about fostering sibiling groups	foster Children don't like been seperated from their sibilings. The oldest child may assume of the parent role and carry more of the burben of seperation than the other children.
40	3/9/2012	38	ARTL (Article)	How foster care works http://people.howstuffworks.com/foster-care3.htm	Foster parents deal with special circumstances o a foster child, good foster parents provide everthing the child needs. before the adoption the foster parents have to go through security and licensing process. the child should be able to have their own room. Provide them medi-cal insurance make sure their health is fine.
41	3/9/2012	39	ARTL (Article)	Helping Families http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/012610p10.shtml	Social workers help families with disease not just foster children, some parents give their child to social workers because they have disease's and cant take care of their own child, such as when the parents start loosing memories the children suffer by seeing their parents like that and then having to go to foster care because they are to little to be able to take care of themself's.
42	3/9/2012	40	ARTL (Article)	Childhelp Foster Family and Adoption Agency of California http://www.childhelp.org/programs/entry/california-childhelp-foster-family-and-adoption-agency	the role of the social workers is to support children and families to ensure that child are safe guarded. social workers have to work with children and families that have difficult issues such as mental health, sexual abuse, domestic violence, etc. The job for social workers is to be able to handle the issue theats going on and if the child is been harm in any way the social workers have the right to take the child away.
43	4/18/2012	41	ARTL (Article)	Foster Care www.childrenslawcenter.org/issues/foster-care	when the system works properly, social workers help parents resolve the problem that brought the child to foster care. the judge gets to decide if the child will be put into adoption or if the child can go back to their parents-depending in the problem that cause the child to go to foster care.
44	4/18/2012	42	ARTL (Article)	living with a foster child	When a child comes into a new home the main thing they have to do is to adjust to the family, food, house, etc. everything is new to them they may feel strange with the new surroundings, they may not want to get involved with the routine and activities the family has. if the adoptive family has other members of the household they also have to be positive of the idea of adopting, make the child feel wanted and accepted.
45	4/18/2012	43	interview 3	Diana Hernandez-interview	Diana taught me how to treat kids in foster care and she told me that many children in foster care dont have a stable home they go from one house to another, she also explained to me the steps that are involved in the adoption process.and how yo help the child confront his or her issues
46	4/18/2012	44	ARTL (Article)	Foster care and adoption http://www.all4kids.org/foster-care-and-adoption.html	Bureau helps more than 500 children find a safe home. According to this article there is alot of home needed, need to help these fragile children to trust, love, and feel confident. Foster care and adoption famiies are provided with additional help through therapy, mentoring and support groups.
47	4/18/2012	45	ARTL (Article)	social workers on the front lines of foster care	Each year more thn 20,000 children are leaving foster care because they are aging out. social workers should help find good parents, good parents are are parents who mentor children, donate good used, and who support them and their programs. social workers are dedicated to improve the childs life.
48	4/18/2012	46	ARTL (Article)	Giving a child a permanent home ( choices for relatives)	A permanent family and a stable home are vital to a childs develpoment. Making a decision aboout giving a chid a permanent home is very important and personal. This artice explains some of the major differences among adoption, guardianship, and foster care. In a permanent home, a child receieves love, protection, stability and something we all need in our lives.
49	4/18/2012	47	ARTL (Article)	Giving a child a permanent home ( choices for relatives) -part b	Sometimes children in foster care with relatives move from one home to another. Before putting the child in adoption the relatives of the child have the right to adopt them. The court continues to oversee decisions about the chid and review the child's placement regularly. WHat is kindhip guardianship assistance payment program, is a program which creates an option for a foster child's permanent placement with a relative.
50	4/18/2012	48	ARTL (Article)	Adoption and fostering disabled children	Children with disabilites are mostly raised in the homes of one or both biological parents, others grew up in adoptive and foster caree homes. children with special needs are children who stay longer in foster care and are waiting to be adopted but many parents dont want to, take care of them because they know they can handle taking care of a child in special needs. Back in the days children with disabilites were not considered adoptable.
51	4/18/2012	49	ARTL (Article)	My advice to foster parents	foster parents should feel lucky for adopting a child, its helping a child feel wanted. Foster parents such as birth parents are been hold inside the child's heart. foster parents should keep in mid that you can't replace the birth parents, but they will always see you as their parents you change their lifes.
52	4/18/2012	50	ARTL (Article)	Child help foster family and adoption agency of california	Through the child helo foster familu and adoption agency foster/ adoptive families are taught skills to provide a safe and loving home for children unable to live with their families/ guardianship. The agency's provides foster families recruitment and certification through foster-home screening and study to enusre that the foster parents can deliver adequate care,
53	4/18/2012	51	ARTL (Article)	Foster parents tel one little girl's story http://picayuneitem.com/features/x2079271609/foster-parents-tell-one-little-girls-story	A baby about 18 months would cry at night and day after she will see her biological parents her foster parents notice as she would get older she would say no by baby which she was trying to say dont bite baby. the foster parents met with the biological parents and the poor girl couldn't even be near her father she wouldn't want to be alone or near him. she wouldn't let no man touch her because she would start to scream and cry. the poor girl was really abuse by her parents since she was little and now shes afraid of people and doesnt want to leave her foster mom side.
54	4/18/2012	52	ARTL (Article)	Adopting a foster child. http://www.parents.com/parenting/adoption/facts/adopting-a-fosterchild	You must honor the child's birth heritage and positive memories, when you adopt a child they always tell you is for a period of time because you dont know if the child will want to stay with you or go back with his or her biological parents. If the child had some great time with you when its time for them to make their own decision they can decide to stay with you or not.
55	4/18/2012	53	ARTL (Article)	Adoption http://dhr.maryland.gov/ssa/index.php	social workers and adoptive parents make important decisions about their future. foster parents take care of children who are unable to live at home due to child abuse.
56	4/18/2012	54	ARTL (Article)	Adoting a child from the foster care system	reasons to adopt a child- 1. give a child a chance at a better life. 2. experience the joy and fulfilment, 3. share gifts. need and deserve good parents, families, homes, love, nurturing, guidance, and compranionship
57	4/18/2012	55	ARTL (Article)	Thinking of fostering or adopting a child?	make sure if you have other family members ask them if they agree with the adoption, it is importan that you talk to them about fostering. if one member doesn't agree then its best if you dont adopt the chid the child needs to feel wanted have in mind that they been through abuse and neglect. they already feel useless dont make them feel that they are.
58	5/3/2012	56	ARTL (Article)	Adoption Process	in the adoption process foster parents have to fill out and application and go through 20 hours of training. then social workers will take you to see the children and you get to go inside meet them and see which one is the one you want to help out and see them as one of your children
59	5/3/2012	57	ARTL (Article)	Adopting and fostering children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders	FASD is when the mother will drink during her pregnancy and thats when the child was born with some sort of disorder. these effects may include physical, mental, behavioral, and/ or learning disabilities. Children with FASD need services and can't live by them self
60	5/3/2012	58	ARTL (Article)	Dollars and lives: The economis of healthy children	The cost to societ of adults who were childhood vitims of abuse or neglect, women would pay about $10.4 billion per year. 22% higher than cost for women repoting no abuse during childhood. Its very serious when children have chronic and mental health.
61	5/3/2012	59	ARTL (Article)	Permaneny Options for foster children	As soon as the child get sent to foster care social workers are already trying to find a home. ways to help find a permanent home, returning to their home, adoption, guardianship. mostly social workers can never find home for teenagers and then they end up leaving because they are aging out and they can make decisions on their own.
62	5/3/2012	60	ARTL (Article)	working toward permanency as a team	starts by juvenile court, private agencies, caseworker, school other services providers, childs extended family, birth parents, DCFS. and foster parents. Being on the child welfare tea, does not gurantee the confidence and respect of other team members. Parenting need to establish methods and and resolving conflits.
63	5/3/2012	61	Interview 4	Jessica Garcia	help me answer my EQ, families should be properly traines and prepared so that they can make the best decision. she told me that some children's should not keep in touch with their biological parents depending on their background. There was a few more questions i asked her that i had in mind about adoption and foster care.
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