Foster care

Following their hospitalization, all infants were placed with foster parents or in the care of extended-family members. Four infants were discharged to relatives and eight infants were placed in foster care. Later, two of the foster children were also... 

For decades, drug problems have negatively affected our families, our economy, and our safety. More than 8 million of America s 75 million children currently have a parent (or parents) addicted to alcohol or other psychoactive drugs. This fuels our nation s foster care and juvenile justice systems, and contributes to an intergenerational problem Up to 70% of the children of addicts become addicted to drugs themselves (Bernstein, 2002). 

For all that they did to us cos of the drugs, they were our mum and dad and we knew that they loved us and we were scared of being separated from them and going into foster care. 

Had they been known about, both instances illustrated above would have been significant child protection concerns. The emotional vulnerability engendered as a result of such unstable patterns of parental contact is just as significant. The following child s description of his disappointment that neither parent consistently comes to see him in foster care is a depressingly flat statement of his low expectations that they will turn up, or even really understand the importance of the visit to him ... 

Zima, B.T., Bussing, R., Crecelius, G.M., Kaufman, A., and Belin, T. (1997) Psychotropic medication treatment patterns among school-aged children in foster care. / Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 7 135—147. 

Behavioral health, including mental health, chemical dependence, mental retardation, and foster care. 

The program covers children under six years whose family income is no more than 133% of the federal poverty level definition, pregnant women up to 133% of the poverty level, some Medicare beneficiaries, and recipients of adoption assistance and foster care programs. Medicaid covers virtually all outpatient and inpatient health and rehabilitative services, home health, long-term care, dental, prosthetic, pharmacy, and optical services and goods. Pharmacy benefit rules state ... 

Chung EK, Webb D, Clampet-Lundquist S, et al A comparison of elevated blood lead levels among children living in foster care, their siblings, and the general population. Pediatrics 107 e81, 2001... 

The deeper and more prolonged search into the phenomena and laws of Nature must, of necessity, he left to those who by natural endowment and by opportunity can pursue this search apart from the distractions of the work-a-day world. The workers on the applications of science, may well, realise their debt to these seekers after knowledge, for the seeds of achievement on the practical side must, in many cases, he planted and watered uuder their fostering care. 

Placement with the employee of a child from adoption or foster care, within... 

Safety professionals should be aware that many of the posting and recordkeeping requirements mirror those of the FMLA, and companies or organizations can require verification from the employee requesting an NDAA leave of absence. Safety professionals should be aware that where the military service member and his or her spouse both woik for the company or organization, the spouse is limited to a combined total of 26 woik weeks in any 12-month period if the leave is to care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness, and for the birth and care of a newborn child, adoption, foster care of a child, or care of a parent who has a serious health condition. ... 

Maternal depressive symptoms are associated with neurodevelopmental patterns of reduced arousal and increased stress. Among 13 808 screened subjects from Honolulu, 1632 were eligible and 176 mothers were enrolled prenatal metamfetamine exposure combined with maternal depression was not associated with any additional neurodevelopmental differences [35 ]. When adjusted for co-variates, metamfetamine exposure was associated with lower arousal and higher lethargy scores. Only 136 biological mothers with child custody (50 of whom had used metamfetamine) had the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) administered at 1 month. The NICU Network Neurobehavioral Scale (NNNS) was administered to the neonate within the first 5 days of fife by an examiner blinded to metamfetamine exposure. There were several limitations to this study. The severity of depression in the mothers was assessed not at the neonatal visit but after 1 month. Since only the biological mothers were included in the study, the sample size was limited, because several infants who had been exposed to metamfetamine were placed in foster care or the care of relatives, so that data from their biological mothers was not assessed. 

The famous British Poor Laws were written in 1598 and 1601. They provided a system of social security—relief in kind for the helpless poor (the ill, the elderly, children), workfare or wage subsidies to the able-bodied, apprenticeships to children, and foster care for orphans. The poor laws were centrally mandated, but wholly financed by local property taxes and implemented at the parish level. Of course, their application varied from place to place and over the centuries. The World Bank provides an interesting view of their impacts on economic development ... 

In researching my topic, I became increasingly aware of how little interest government agencies, pohticians, and even child advocacy groups in the United States, and to some extent also in Europe, have shown in examining the successes and failures of ancient and medieval societies in their efforts to assist the poor and needy in general and to provide care for orphans and abandoned children in particular. Can this lack of historical perspective help to explain the unsatisfactory results of the current foster-care system for children, and perhaps the failure of other social welfare systems of the capitahst West ... 

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) Indicated An intensive intervention aiming to prevent misbehaviors such as substance use or violence in a treatment setting. A type of foster care is provided by foster parents through 24-hour otvcaU assistance, clinical care, mentoring activities, and integrated types of community care. 

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