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Foster Care and Ecomaps, 2005.
This is a paper on how ecomaps can be used in the foster care system to improve care and services.
2,308 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper is based on a case study of a 17-year-old high-needs foster girl. She has been in foster care for 5 years. She is making some big changes in her life, and to demonstrate where she is at, an ecomap has been made to simulate her life. This map shows her foster parent and social worker where Amanda is emotionally, as well as the people that are significant in her life. It also helps them figure out a living plan for Amanda once she turns 18 and ages out of foster care.
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Introduction
Case Study
Systems
Amanda's Ecomap
Conclusion
References
Appendix
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"An ecomap is a map of the family and the larger world in which the family exists. Its primary use is to highlight the relationships between the family and these other systems. It is another assessment tool that provides a tangible, graphic picture of a family's situation. Ecomaps use symbols to depict the nature of the relationships between the family and other systems. They also show the flow of energy. Ideally, there will be a balance between the energy the family expends and the energy that flows into the family. If there is a major imbalance, it may help social workers and the family to target some areas for intervention. However, when constructing an ecomap the most important thing is that everyone involved in the process understands what the ecomaps and the symbols used in them means."
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Foster Care and Emancipation, 2002.
A literature review examining the problems faced by children who eventually leave foster care, focusing on African-Americans.
11,950 words (approx. 47.8 pages), 41 sources, APA, $ 231.95
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This paper concerns itself with the problems that foster children face, especially when they become emancipated and begin to live life on their own. It has often been suggested that many more African-American children are in foster care than are children of other races. In order to understand whether or not this is accurate, a thorough review of available literature on the topic is performed. Literature on this topic includes statistics, gender differences and cultural diversity. The problem statement concerns the disproportionate number of African-American children who are represented in the child welfare system and who are not adequately prepared to leave foster care through emancipation. The logical assumption would be that something is lacking in the foster care environment that causes great difficulty for children once they begin to live on their own. The literature review shows whether or not this is accurate and what may be lacking in the foster care environment. The possibility remains that it may not be the fault of the foster care environment, but rather may be the fact of other extenuating circumstances that have occurred in the child's life before they were placed in a foster home. More likely, it is not one or the other, but all of the factors together that cause problems for these children later in life. All of these suggestions are explored, in the context of the literature review, in order to begin to come to terms with the immenseness of this problem in society.
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"The older a child gets, the more difficult it is for that child to be adopted. Most children who get adopted out of foster care are under the age of 12, and are categorized as having special needs, although the general accounting office findings do not state whether that term is being applied to disabilities, or whether it is being applied to sibling groups or minority children. Children who are part of a group of siblings also have a difficult time getting adopted, since there is an effort made not to break up the family. Large groups of children, or even a brother and sister, are more difficult to adopt, as many couples who adopt children only wish to take on one child at a time. Consequently, this often leads to the breaking up of sibling groups."
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Critical Race Theory and Foster Care in America, 2008.
A look at the critical race theory in relation to the American foster care system.
3,161 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 18 sources, APA, $ 91.95
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This paper describes the "critical race theory" (CRT) and how it can be applied to the foster care system and the glaring racial differences between the experiences of citizens who are Caucasian vs. people of color. The author provides a detailed account of the USA foster care system and concludes that if Bell's convergence theory is accurate then it must be demonstrated that better foster care for all children is in society's best interest as it will reduce crime, welfare, education and other societal costs.
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Critical Race Theory
United States Foster Care System In 21st Century
Action Oriented Research
Critical Race Theory and the Foster Care System
Some Current Foster Care Issues
Conclusion
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"Derrick Bell not only presents a new view on American racism in CRT, he also has led a new method for describing this experience. Where historians generally speak in broad terms, Bell often uses narratives to tell a story. He and other CRT proponents use individual vignettes to illustrate their points. In one story Bell describes a future where aliens land and promise to solve all of America's financial problems if we will give them all of our Negroes. Since Blacks arrived as slaves, he uses his story to launch into a question of whether or not society would allow Blacks to be taken the same way they came. He concludes that most Americans would allow this, basing his opinion on past practices of America, from the rationalization of slavery on economic terms, to destruction of the Native American to Japanese internment during WW II (Bell, 2000, pp. 2-8).
"Bell's point is that racism is endemic to U.S. History and that we need to recognize that fact. Bell begins by noting that wealth in the United States is disproportionately held by a small group of mostly White individuals. Current news stories illustrate an even greater disparity in wealth than what Bell reports (that the poorest 2/5ths of our population received only 15.4% of the national family income while the top 1/5th received 43.7%. Bell claims that such disparity threatens to wipe out any legal equality gained over the past half-century (Bell, 2000, pp. 2-6)."
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Foster Children, 2007.
This paper examines foster care and its effects on children.
1,169 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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The paper explores the history of US foster care and explains that the concept of foster care has existed for centuries. The paper discusses how today there are numerous safeguards to protect children from abuse and neglect by their parents, as well as from foster families. The paper relates that the exact psychological toll on foster children is unknown, yet it is known to exist. The paper suggests that older children may suffer more than younger foster children because older foster children have had a longer relationship with the birth family.
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"During the 1600's, with no social welfare program established, children in the American colonies were typically viewed as assets who could help with the household income, while orphaned, poor, or illegitimate children were usually farmed out as indentured apprentices to learn a working trade (History). In the 18th and 19th centuries, abandoned and orphaned children were sent to publicly funded shelters, called almshouses, and from there, they were typically claimed by relatives or strangers for use as household servants (History). During this era, these 'foster parents' received public funding, however there were no checks and balances to ensure the children were being cared for properly (History). "
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Foster Youth and Education, 2008.
This paper presents a research proposal that will explore educational attainment for reunified foster youth.
5,395 words (approx. 21.6 pages), 26 sources, APA, $ 132.95
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The paper proposes a study to explores whether reunified foster youth will have higher rates of educational attainment versus non-reunified foster youth. The paper outlines the design and research methods of the study and presents the hypothesis that reunified foster youth will have completed higher levels of education than those who spent at least one year in the foster care system. The paper maintains that federal, state, and local authorities must recognize the critical importance of permanent family connections for youth in foster care if substantial progress is to be made in improving outcomes for these disconnected youth.
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Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Methods
Data Analysis
Implications
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"Each year, approximately 20,000 youth age 16 and older, transition from foster care to legal emancipation and find themselves on their own (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2007). Children in foster care are one of the most vulnerable populations within our educational system as they are at great risk for school failure (Zietlin, 2004). With an estimated 542,000 children in the United States foster care system, researchers have begun to look at factors which may impede a child's educational attainment (Zeitlin, 2004). Several studies have started to focus on the lack of support for foster youth, significance of academic, emotional, and behavioral problems youth experience as well as lack of innovative interventions which may improve school outcomes (Zeitlin, 2004)"
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The Cuthbert's as Foster Parents, 2008.
An analysis of the Cuthbert's as suitable foster parents in L. M Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables".
1,133 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses how two of the major questions raised by "Anne of Green Gables" are whether Marilla and Mathew Cuthbert were successful foster parents and what type of challenges they faced as foster parents. The argument is made that Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert were successful foster parents and that they provided all of Anne's basic needs(food, water, shelter, etc...), they provided her education, they guided her through life in Prince Edward Island and they provided love and support. It attempts to show that all of these feats were complicated by the fact that, the Cuthbert's were questionable foster parents initially and that Anne was poorly suited to the rigid social environment of rural life in Prince Edward Island.
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"Marilla seems to be the perfect example of what the average person in the Avonlea Community is supposed to be like. She finds it extremely difficult to deal with Anne. To a large extent this is because Anne is such an imaginative free-spirit. Marilla is totally against being imaginative. She even says to Anne, "When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away"(Montgomery 1993: 57). This statement indicates that Marilla and Anne have totally different worldviews. These conflicting worldviews cause a great deal of conflict between Marilla and Anne."
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Therapeutic Treatment of Children in Foster Care, 2002.
This paper discusses alternative and traditional therapeutic methods and interventions being used to treat children in foster care who often have emotional difficulties that must be dealt with by their caregivers.
6,130 words (approx. 24.5 pages), 30 sources, APA, $ 144.95
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This paper explains that one of the most traditional intervention approaches for foster care children is placing them in a special education class because many children who come into foster care have behavioral, physical and emotional problems that do not allow them to function normally in a standard classroom setting. The author states that as time goes on and the problems of foster care children do not show any great improvement, alternative ideas begin to make their way to the forefront of thinking for those who are involved with foster care children. The paper relates that one of these alternative ideas is to expand the primary care and community-based care for these children, so that they can receive proper healthcare when and where they need it instead of only receiving Medicaid. Another alternative treatment is a mentoring program.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Literature Review
Traditional Therapeutic Methods & Interventions
Alternative Therapeutic Methods & Interventions
Conclusion
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"Mentors, however, are people in the community that can work specifically with these children on a one-on-one basis. They are often people who have been through hardships in their own childhood. Some of them come from abusive homes, some of them come from the foster care system, and others come from various other hardships and tragedies that they endured as children and young adults. The reason that this is so important for foster children is that these mentors have experiences and problems that they have made it through, and many of these experiences and difficulties are similar to what foster children either will go through or are going through right now. Because of the fact that many of these people have been through the difficulties that these foster children are now facing, they are able to give advice and help in a way that many others would not be able to. They have "been there," and they know what many of the pains that a foster child goes through feel like. This makes them uniquely qualified to give advice and to help these foster children."
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Foster-Parent/Caregiver-Child Relationship Attachment, 2008.
A research proposal to study the design and development of effective intervention programs to encourage foster-parent/caregiver and child relationship attachment.
4,790 words (approx. 19.2 pages), 20 sources, APA, $ 122.95
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This paper explains that the objective of this research proposal is to design a research initiative to apply the attachment theory foster-parent/caregiver and child relationships through means of an observational study or survey/questionnaire. The author seeks to understand why the attachment between the parent/caregiver/foster parent and the child is so important to the development of the child as presented in attachment theory. The paper presents a literature review, which supports these findings and highlights the significance of activities of continuity of the child in foster care.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Background of the Study
Statement of Problem
Purpose of the Study
Rationale
Research Questions
Limitations
Definitions of Terms
Organization of the Remainder of the Study
Literature Review
Findings
Recommendations for Research
Methodology
Research Design
Instrumentation and Data Collection/Analysis
Population/Sample for Data
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"Caltabiano and Thorpe relate that in order to understand these attachment models from the adult relationship perspective research has relied on interviews or self-reporting methods to learn in this area. The 'Adult Attachment Interview' was reported in the work of George, Kaplan & Main (1984) in research that conducted an in-depth exploration into the nature of the adult individual's childhood relationships to their caregiver. Another method utilized in this are of study is the self-report instrument known as the 'Attachment Style Questionnaire' (ASQ) as noted in the work of Feeney, Noller & Harahan (1994)."
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Adoptions and Foster Care Placement, 2002.
An examination of the politics of culture and race as an issue in adoptions and foster care placement.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 11 sources, $ 79.95
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Examines the politics of culture and race as an issue in adoptions and foster care placement. Adoption & foster care policy in the U.S. and its effects. Policy of race-matching and adverse effect on placement of minority & at-risk children. Opposition to transracial placement. Congressional actions to end historical bias against interracial adoptions and foster care placement.
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"Policy Analysis: Culture and Foster Care Placement
Definition of the Problem
The question of culture and race has been integral to the debate over formal adoption and foster care placement policy in the United States (Banks, 1998). The politics of race and culture as a visible manifestation of racial and/or ethnic differences has been intertwined with adoption and foster care policy in the United States and has resulted in a number of unintended effects. Banks (1998) has pointed out that in both scholarly and public debate centered on this policy issue, there has been a protracted and intense controversy focused on the practice of race-matching, according to which foster care or adoptive children and foster parents or adoptive parents are matched by social work personnel on the basis of race. "
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Stephen Foster and Lowell Mason, 2005.
An argument about the importance of Stephen Foster over Lowell Mason on 20th century musical trends and institutions.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 4 sources, $ 89.95
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In this paper, the work of Lowell Mason and Stephen Foster has been examined in this study as to who had a greater impact on the 20th century music. The writer proposes that, although both contributed major achievements that brought more music to people, it is Foster that went farther than Mason in his ability to include racial integration outside of the white class system. Mason had played a large part in getting vocal education from professional musicians into the public schools, but did not alter musical styles or traditions in the way that Foster had done.
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"In this music history analysis, the work of Stephen Foster and Lowell Mason will be compared and contrasted through cultural and educational accomplishments that influenced 20th century music. Although Mason had made great accomplishments within the educational system in regards to music education, Foster brought about a greater understanding of folk music tradition that has surpassed the achievements of the Massachusetts native. In essence, the musical compositions of Stephen Foster were greater influences on the course of American music than those of Foster's educational achievement in music education. Lowell Mason (1792-1872) was a native of Massachusetts who accomplished a great feat in providing "public" music education in a time that only provided music from private institutions."
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Healthcare for Emancipated Foster Youth, 2004.
This paper looks at the health care problems of emancipated foster youth.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at the health care problems of emancipated foster youth. It looks at the 1999 Foster Care Independence Act and how it has been applied in different states. The writer makes some suggestions as to what needs to happen.
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"They have no home, no job and no health care. They are often ill-prepared for life on their own since foster care is not conducive to providing these skills and they receive no special training in independent living. Some may still have a connection with their foster parents but many do not. A study of ... "
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The Foster Care System, 2005.
A critical overview of the foster care system in the United States.
4,275 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 22 sources, MLA, $ 113.95
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This paper argues that children entering the shadowy world of foster care are often assigned labels arbitrarily and on a bed-available basis. They may end up spending some time in conventional foster homes, only to find themselves shuffled through group homes, residential treatment facilities, mental hospitals and prisons. The paper argues that scant attention is given to the needs of these children, and the conditions they are forced to endure are often far worse than those endured by prisoners in some third world nations.
Paper Outline:
Overview
The Labelling of Children
The Impact on the Children
Bibliography
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"Several nonprofit corporations operating child-care facilities were found to be legally skimming large amounts of government money through lease-back arrangements. Operators not only owned the land and leased it to the nonprofit corporation; they often paid themselves handsome salaries and had the free use of homes, cars and credit cards.The level of care and treatment in far too many of these group homes was minimal at best, because the money was being skimmed off for personal gain.[5]"
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?Ellen Foster? by Kaye Gibbons, 2001.
This paper reviews the book ?Ellen Foster? by Kaye Gibbons about a nasty little villain.
765 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper reviews ?Ellen Foster?, the title character, in a novel by Kaye Gibbons, a nine or ten years old who hates her father and wants him dead. The author states that most of the book is about Ellen?s search for a new mother who can live up to her anticipations. The author finds Ellen Foster to be a very unpleasant and lascivious child, certainly not a good example for real children.
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"Ellen Foster is apparently a child murderer. People are dying like flies around her. This cannot be a coincidence. It must be Ellen who murders them, although the novel never says so explicitly. Ellen is the narrator of the novel, so it is not surprising that she appears to be innocent. In the first page, we can read: ?But I did not kill my daddy. He drank his own self to death the year after the County moved me out. I heard they found him shut up in the house dead and everything. Next thing I know he?s in the ground and the house is rented to another family of four.? Already here we see a notorious liar and juvenile offender trying to deny her hideous crimes. Probably she put poison in his liquor. It is not stated what killed him the second time."
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Foster Care and AIDS Drugs, 2005.
This paper addresses the issue of fostered children receiving pediatric AIDS drug trials.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 5 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper describes how within modern society, there are literally hundreds of groups that are voicing their concerns for the National Institute's of Health pediatric AIDS drug trials on foster care children in the United States. The paper explains the predominant opinion, that children that have been placed in foster care are being forced to endure unneeded drug treatments that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for children and that require testing in order to receive such approval.
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Mark S Foster's "A Nation on Wheels", 2003.
This paper reviews Mark S Foster's book "A Nation on Wheels: The Automobile in American Culture since 1945".
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper discusses Mark S Foster's book "A Nation on Wheels: The Automobile in American Culture since 1945", which relates the impact of the car on American life. The author stress the issues of the automobile culture including mass transit, highways and interstate systems, youth culture and the growth of suburbs. The author highlights the reliance on oil from Middle East.
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Mark S Foster's "A Nation on Wheels The Automobile Culture in America" examines the impact the automobile has had on American life. His thesis is that the automobile has been a powerful and aggressive maker of American culture. Although the book is only ..."
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