How Does Long Term Foster Care Affect Foster Children

“Instead of growing in my belly, you have grown in my heart” by an anonymous person. What this quote tells me is even though she might not have the same DNA, be related that she is still a mother that can still have a natural maternal heart for “her child” and that she loves it like it was her own. Children are placed in foster care for all different type of reason, physical abuse, neglect, runaways, etc. They have a different type of cases and experiences for each child. A foster home is a temporary safe place where kids stay until they find a “forever home”. Children placed in foster care can stay in a home for a week up to a year. Most foster families open their home to a foster child for a lovable stable home so they can nurture if they can’t have a natural child of their own. They are about 400 foster care kids in New Orleans on any given day. Forster children can have a difficult time fitting in school socially and academically, “44% of foster children spend all four years in the high school which is less than half” according to the “United Foster Care”.

Despite the enormous obstacles that the children may face and how it may change them emotionally, physically, mentally or/and etc. Some kids do have hope that they will find they a family that will love them. Foster care team up with local child advocates to thoroughly investigate the damaging system. Foster care has a negative effect on the children and communities. Children in foster care can have attachment ise with negative people in their life because might be all that they know of. Every time a child is removed from a home, they become aced and that may leave them devastated emonally all over again. About 33-66% that a child maybe attached and that can sters Care” . The kids may hey interact with e neglect, and/or s with they h kids mind and ability to be they best them. The outcome of the people that were in the are in foster re and also happen I can see why it would be hard h t part because the change can cause depression and anxiety which all together rigger can cause emotional damage while you are e can very hard, being took from your garden because they wasn’t doing right by you and now they try to get you back but you also have a little rebel by them. When kids going to a new home the new gardening can expect “aggression, withdrawals, regression to younger behavior, confusion on new rules, and inappropriate behavior according to “ How Kids Develope.Com” . Moving to a new home for new Foster kids can be a struggle especially if it’s a repeated event that happen . They have a 60 percent of Foster kids that end up finishing high school but only 20 percent of them are going to college, say “Foster Care resources”. In my opinion, it is hard for Foster kids to be successful because of the trauma that they go Thru and how they are always placed in and out of school.For example, in primary care, a sustaining innovation might be adding new and better equipment to a physician’s office. A disruptive innovation would be starting a telemedicine practice such as Doctor on Demand, which provides consultations via cell phone or iPad.18 A consultation with this practice currently costs $40—comparable to the cost of an office visit. From the patient’s perspective, however, there are substantial savings in terms of nonmonetary costs: travel time, waiting time, child care, missed work, the unpleasantness of getting out of bed while sick. The former innovation improves an existing market. The latter creates a new market.For example, in primary care, a sustaining innovation might be adding new and better equipment to a physician’s office. A disruptive innovation would be starting a telemedicine practice such as Doctor on Demand, which provides consultations via cell phone or iPad.18 A consultation with this practice currently costs $40—comparable to the cost of an office visit. From the patient’s perspective, however, there are substantial savings in terms of nonmonetary costs: travel time, waiting time, child care, missed work, the unpleasantness of getting out of bed while sick. The former innovation improves an existing market. The latter creates a new market, Harvard business professors Joseph Bower and Clayton Christensen call this process “disruptive innovation”—technological change driven by those outside the industry’s mainstream—that replaces complex products with simple ones, yields massive price decreases, and leads to previously unthinkable quality increases (perhaps in ways unimagined by the innovators).15 In The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, Christensen and his coauthors Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang argue that health care remained anomalous during this period of rapid innovation.16 To be sure, there were astounding technological developments in health care, but the innovation was, in Christensen’s terms, “sustaining” rather than “disruptive.” Sustaining innovation brings evolutionary change to an existing market. Disruptive innovation brings revolutionary change that creates new markets altogether. Unlike disruptive innovation, sustaining innovation generally arises from established insiders and increases costs. For example, in primary care, a sustaining innovation might be adding new and better equipment to a physician’s office. A disruptive innovation would be starting a telemedicine practice such as Doctor on Demand, which provides consultations via cell phone or iPad.18 A consultation with this practice currently costs $40—comparable to the cost of an office visit. From the patient’s perspective, however, there are substantial savings in terms of nonmonetary costs: travel time, waiting time, child care, missed work, the unpleasantness of getting out of bed while sick. The former innovation improves an existing market. The latter creates a new market. Another example, explored later in depth, is the supply of prosthetic hands and arms. Sustaining innovations are those that improve the quality of professionally made prosthetics. Forster affect many children due the complication that are happening in they like that cause them to get put in the system. The hardship influence them to be depressed and have emotional problems. Due to the neglect many children are place in the foster care “.45 percent in nonrelative foster family homes 32 percent in relative foster family homes 7 percent in institutions 5 percent in group homes 5 percent on trial home visits (situations in which the State retains supervision of a child, the child returns home on a trial basis for an unspecified period of time, and after 6 months the child is considered discharged from foster care) 4 percent in pre adoptive homes 1 percent had run away 1 percent in supervised independent living” states in the 2016 foster care statistics. This show that nearly half of the children are placed in a non relative foster care home. “55 percent had a goal of reunification with parent or principal caretaker. 26 percent had a goal of adoption. 5 percent had not yet had a case plan goal established. 4 percent had a goal of emancipation.4 3 percent had a goal of long-term foster care. 3 percent had a goal of guardianship. 3 percent had a goal of living with other relative”, it also states in 2016 foster care statistics. This show that a little more than half that they reunification with the parents or principal caretakers. Children can also go to care if they are homeless kids in the rage of new born to the age of 12. Not all home offer long term care though, some home can offer emergency short term care for the moment. When you open your home to a kid that is no longer in they care can come with some difficulties because of they problem but will eventually grow as a whole. Talking to the kids and to help them better understand the situation can help them have less stress on them. Trying to understand the struggle and what they go though can also have have a little compassion for then so they can feel like they are not alone. Child traumatic stress occurs when children and adolescent are expose are exposed to event or situation that overwhelm their ability to copy and interfere with daily life and their ability to function and interact with other. This type of trauma can not only affect them mentally emotionally and physically but can also hurt them with the brain,bodies, and their behavior in the ways of thinking. Insecurity of not feeling safe for a child can cause bad habit. The increase of aggression is very common with kids that are abandoned because of the issue and the trust issue they have. The parents can heal the kids alway be patient with them and know that the kids can have personal issue. what this graph show is the changes in the foster care and changes in the congregate care from the year 2004 to 2013 from the percentage. They also have local cases with Foster children in one cases when a foster child in Oklahoma was ask what they want in a family. In a reader eye you can see that the child has been through a lot in his life because it was the most simple stuff he ask for but made a big deal to him. One of the things he ask for was “food and water, don’t want to be hit on, and nice clean clothes.” It can be things we take for granted the these children would have love to have. Being in Foster cares can change the perspective on what and how the child may think and how humble they may be to have half of what we have. This show how Foerster can change the mind of children and make them more humble. In a negative affect it never show them a lovable or even stable home which can have a Horrible toll on them.