RC. 14

Children's law center
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• When the government believes that children are being abused or neglected and cannot safely live with their families, it asks a Family Court judge to place the children in foster care.
• Foster care is designed to be temporary.
• When the system works properly, social workers help parents resolve the problem that brought their children into foster care and the children can go home.
• The judge will also decide whether the child can go home to his parents, stay in foster care or leave foster care to live with relatives or in an adoptive home.
• Extended Family Care- This means that the relative has the responsibility to care for the child and has the authority to make important decisions about the child. 

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• If the child is been abuse or neglected the social workers have the right to take them to a foster care agency. 
• Social workers decide if they will be in foster care temporary, either they go back to their biological parents depending on the case, or they will get adopted by a new family. 
• After putting the child in foster care social workers have to deal with the reason why they got their and work with their biological parents and see if the child can go back or not.
• only the judge gets to decide if the child will go back home or go to a new home, they will have court and both the child and the parents have to have their own lawyers. During the court they will determine if the child has been abuse or neglected by their parents.
• Before they put the child in adoption they ask any relatives of the child if they want to take care of them and treat them like their child.

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Living with a foster child
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.a successful match between the child and the foster parent make a difference in a child's life during a period.
. The first to consider we're they place the child is with their relatives.
. Placement affect children, children can feel loss when separated from their families.
. They feel abounded, worthless
. When a child comes into a new home the main thing they have to do is to adjust to many things, everything is new, the family, food, house, etc. They may feel strange with the new surroundings. They may not want to get involved with the routine and activities the family has.
. Give the child time, before adopting them visit them once in a while so they will know you and get use to you do when you adopt them it won't be a big change for them.
.some foster children still want to keep in touch with their biological parents and that is good, foster parents should keep in touch with them and arrange them visits so the child can go once in a while with his or her families.
. If a family wants to adopt a child they should feel certain, they have to know they will be making a life time commitment.
. If the adoptive family has othher member of the household they also have to be positive of the idea of adopting. Make the child feel wanted.


What do social workers do?
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.the role for a social worker is to support children and families to ensure that children are safeguarded.
. Social workers is helping people with the difficulties they face.
. They develop a working relationship with children, young people, and families.
. Social workers should work hard to maintain a balance between compassion and making the right choice to protect children.
. Social workers have to challenge families, have to work with families and make sure it's strong enough to reach its own needs.
. Social workers don't just work with children and families and to keep the together, it can also be they have to take or remove a child from a situation that it's showing no signs of improvement.
. If the child has been harm or is in danger the social workers job is to go see what's going on and if they see the child is mistreated they have to take the child with them to foster care.
. Social workers working with children and families have to deal with many difficult issues, including mental health problems, sexual abuse, domestic violence

The Product

In my service learning, working in think together in buena vista elementary school and I have been working with kid. My product is understanding the experiences of a foster child or child. I chose understanding the experiences of a foster child or child because of my service learning with kids your suppose to be able to know what to do and understand them because they are all different. My evidence is service learning, my research, and working with Miracle who I met and she is from foster care. So far, I learned that your suppose to listen and be able to understand children even though there may be times you don't understand. Another thing is to be with them the whole entire time don't let them work by themselves. And main thing is to show them you care and won't ever leave them because some of them may be going through a lot of problems.