tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post2374055151157428623..comments2024-03-26T09:49:07.212-07:00Comments on The Scratching Post: Don't Blame The Social WorkersK T Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-48765377120448438622017-07-06T07:03:35.030-07:002017-07-06T07:03:35.030-07:00Something else that occurred to me was that if soc...Something else that occurred to me was that if social workers are trying to keep kids in family settings and out of the foster care system, then if the number of kids in the foster care system remains constant, there must be more kids in desperate situations which was the point of the post. All you've done is channel a set of them to different outlets which you've renamed. It makes the foster situation look much better than it is.<br /><br />The motivation for the post originally was that the Oregon social services workers, almost all of whom are presumably postmodern progressives, deserve very little blame and lots and lots of praise. It's inconceivable to me that they are trying to screw over these kids, having given their lives to continual acts of love and charity.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-60037311790912986922017-07-05T19:45:58.687-07:002017-07-05T19:45:58.687-07:00You wouldn't have to do that if there was a gl...You wouldn't have to do that if there was a glut of foster homes and a dearth of foster kids.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-24035693667468754032017-07-05T19:24:48.995-07:002017-07-05T19:24:48.995-07:00Over the past 30 years social services focus more ...Over the past 30 years social services focus more on family preservation/keeping kids in the home/ in home services/ and kinship guardianship w/ children with family without the need of social services. It's mandatory to seek out the father, and his family members. Yes, that is sometimes a dead end but if we find someone willing and passes the application process it's one less home we have to find. <br /><br />http://www.familyfinding.org/resourcesandpublications.html<br /><br /><br />Just a volunteer with DCF in my state. Reneehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852754398007790428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-49106660849331614192017-07-05T17:58:23.884-07:002017-07-05T17:58:23.884-07:00From that link:
The shortage of foster homes acro...From that link:<br /><br />The shortage of foster homes across the nation can in part be attributed to the increase of children being placed into care. In some parts of the nation, there has been a sudden and large increase of children placed into care due much in part of an increase in parental drug usage and substance abuse, with Heroin use being the chief drug increasing among parents. Other substance abuse among parents include meth, cocaine and prescription medication abuse.K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-89260093526010007212017-07-05T17:57:43.077-07:002017-07-05T17:57:43.077-07:00Check this out.<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-foster-care-crisis-the-shortage-of-foster-parents_us_59072dcfe4b05279d4edbdd9" rel="nofollow">Check this out.</a>K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-36648629793293516472017-07-05T13:52:44.788-07:002017-07-05T13:52:44.788-07:00On the other hand, the number of stable, tradition...On the other hand, the number of stable, traditional families who can take them in has been decreasing. So maybe it's not the supply of foster kids going up, it's the supply of foster homes going down. Let's see if we can get our resident social worker to weigh in...K T Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10259428595745509790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22301740.post-44361555505798913482017-07-05T13:48:51.385-07:002017-07-05T13:48:51.385-07:00So this got me wondering, what is the trend in the...So this got me wondering, what is the trend in the number of foster children over time? Is the number increasing? And I found this:<br /><br />https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/12_fig1.jpg<br /><br />That looks - actually pretty stable, really. If the foster child system is overloaded, then it has been overloaded for at least the last 30 years.tim eiselehttp://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.comnoreply@blogger.com