Kinship Placement A Priority Option For Children...

For more than a decade, the child welfare system has encouraged kinship placement to be a priority option for children entering foster care. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, kinship placements made up 28% of the child welfare placements in the United States in 2012. The role of kinship placement has become more imperative due to the increased number of children in the welfare system and a decrease in non-kinship placement options (Banuelos, 2011). Although the Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997 was set in place to emphasize kinship care, many have questioned what the benefits are for this type of foster care placement. Several articles have been published to systematically review much of the information available on kinship care. In older studies, it has been found that kinship care placement offered many benefits such as increased family connections, less mental and behavioral health problems, and a greater chance for children to adapt to their environment. Permanency was found to be the one outcome where kinship placements were less successful (Winokur, Rozen, Thompson, Green, Valentine, 2005). A more recent study performed by Ching-Hsuan Lin (2013) found that 24% of the sample of kinship care placements gained legal permanency. Other outcomes for the children were not available during the time of the study. Other studies have focused on specific outcomes for children in kinship and non-kinship care, such as mental and behavioralShow MoreRelatedThe Differences of the Child Welfare Policy in the United States to Those in Finland and Germany2409 Words   |  10 Pagesmaintaining children in their own community as initial responses. Family centered practice, culture connection, and community continuity are viewed as important variables to serve the best interest of a child. In the US, African American and American Indian children are overrepresented in the child welfare system. There is a lack of cultural competence which can lead to inaccurate assessments (Velazquez, 2011). If biological families need to stay together and child welfare should make this a priority thanRead MoreMulticultural Education in a Pluralistic Society21691 Words   |  87 PagesSociety, Seventh Edition, by Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn. Published by Prentice-Hall/Merrill. Copyright  © 2006 by Pearson Education, Inc. Chapter 2 Class hile he was still in college, Tomas Juarez had decided he wanted to work with children from low-income families. He began his teaching career, however, in a culturally diverse suburban school. The school had been built only a few years before and included state-of-the-art science labs. Students were proficient with computers; theyRead MoreMarketing Management130471 Words   |  522 Pagesthe market for the solution †¢ Services – additional options that enhance the solution’s value Each option within the marketer’s set is tightly integrated with all other options so that a decision in one area could and often does impact decisions in other areas. For instance, a change in the price of a product (e.g., lowering the price) could impact the distribution area (e.g., increases shipments, generates higher traffic). Additionally, options within the toolkit are affected by factors that areRead MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pagesintroduction of new technologies of repression and surveillance and modes of mass organization and control. Breakthroughs in the sciences that greatly enhanced our understandings of the natural world and made for major advances in medicine and health care were very often offset by the degradation of the global environment and massive spurts in excessive mortality brought on by warfare, famine, periodic genocidal onslaughts, and worldwide epidemics. In no previous epoch of history was war so vilified