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
Notes:
.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?
Notes:
.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.

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? 

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.

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.

Presentation 2 Rough Draft

The link  is my 20 minute lesson plan for my  presentation


Andrea Baltazar- Foster Care 20 min lesson plan