Andrea B.
West House
Topic: Foster Care
EQ: What is the best way to help a foster child find a permanent home?
New EQ: What is most important in the adoption process of a foster child.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Fourth Interview Questions

  1. What is the best way to help a foster child find a permanent home?
  2. How should the child be treated?
  3. What do you think foster parents should do before adopting a child?
  4. How should social workers help the child find a permanent home?
  5. Does the behavior of the child matter when it comes to finding a permanent home?
  6. Why do they say foster care is only temporary?
  7. Can the children stay with their adoptive parents permanent?
  8. What does it take to help foster kids?
  9. If  the foster child wants to stay with his/her adoptive parents, what do the social workers do? Will they let the child stay with them?
  10. Does the behavior of the child matter when it comes to finding a permanent home?
  11. If the child has been through many bad situations would it affect him/her in finding a new home?
  12. what is the social workers job?
  13. Does the behavior of the child matter when it comes to finding a permanent home?
  14. How can the adoptive parents prevent any bad situations the child has been through before?
  15. When do you know the child should look for a new home, and not help him/her get back with their biological parents?
  16. Why is it that you think foster children go to one house to another?
  17. During the transition of adopting a child what should we tell the child?
  18. What do foster/adoptive parents do?
  19. What are the requirements to become a foster parent?
  20. If the child has siblings will it interfere with the child finding a permanent home? Or do the siblings go with the child who is being adopted? 

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Independent Component 2 plan approval

  1.  My plan was to work with my brothers to be a head of the game in how to work with kids, but instead I decided to work with my whole family such as when we do something or go out together.
  2. I will meet the 30 hours work by every time were together I will make a log and take notes on the good things and bad things a family has.
  3. This relates to my EQ because as I said the best way to find a permanent home is to first realize how a family should function in order to help a foster child. So by that I will take 30 hours to see how a family should treat others.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Independent Component 1

Literal
   I Andrea Baltazar I completed my independent component which was 30 hours of me working with some kids in think together. I talked and helped out a few students more because one is a foster student and another one has a certain disability and I want to work with kids who have different personality's because that's what I will be dealing with later on the future. 
Interpretive 
    I go twice a week and make hours for independent component and service learning and I ended up finishing my independent component, helping out students that each have something you need to focus on and showing them support. And also, been patient because they are little and want all the attention.
Applied
   Working with Miracle helped me realize how to answer my EQ, when she told me she wants me to be her mom she had also told me she has 4 other moms, when she told me that  it made me think of how much parents is the main thing of how foster kids get destroy but at the same time you have to find the good family to adopt the children in need.  By finding the good family who can take care of that child, and give them all they need it will help them out and social workers have no other choice than to let them be happy with them.
Grading Criteria 
  The list of how many hours I've done is in my blog on the right side under Service Learning/ Independent Component 1. Completed 30 Hours the rest is Service learning hours.