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Families with Foster Children

Description:

Children's Aid Society's foster care programs draw their histories back to the founding of the society in 1853, making this our 160th year helping children. The beginning of the history was a decision that inside of serving abandoned or orphaned children in orphanages or other group settings- efforts should be made to place them in families that could care for them.

Common Problems:

Emotional Behaviors Behavioral Problems When children enter enter foster care, the initial plan is for children to return to live with families once they have adequately resolved the problems that made their children unsafe and made foster care necessary. Sometimes children feel like they don't belong or don't have a home, that's why it is important that we have foster care.

Statistics:

As you can see about more than 240,000 children exited the foster care system in 2015, according to the Kids Count Data Center. When researchers adopted a broad definition of family- one that is inclusive of birth parents, guardians, relatives, primary caregivers and adopted parents- they found that most of the kids who left care in 2015 exited to family.

Parents: Parents sometimes enter things like hosting children while they search to find a family. Bringing the world into your home, family, and community by hosting an international high school student for a few weeks or an academic year, you'll share cultures and form bonds that last a lifetime. parents also don't fully understand what children are going through.

Students:

It is hard for children to reach out to peers, parents, and teachers. Sometimes, they don't fully understand what they are going through and need help to continue to live a normal life.

Sources:

https://www.nyfoundling.org/program/foster-care/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=&gclid=CjwKEAjwsqjKBRDtwOSjs6GTgmASJACRbI3f4vuykQSBAkvGSNSQLAas94o3F08NbGaibm5UvnkHrBoCTbXw_wcB http://www.childrensaidsociety.org/adoption-foster-care?gclid=CjwKEAjwsqjKBRDtwOSjs6GTgmASJACRbI3fgyddERXbAFksa1ft-mapmJiDvnAm1mgmbCTSqTth9hoCldzw_wcB