When you advocate for others, you represent the needs and hopes of people to develop and make change in your community. This doesn’t just help the people in need, it improves your entire community, and this is so true because when we talk about foster children they need so much to succeed. When the questions is asked who would you not want to target, I would have to say that I feel that everyone could be a target, because everyone can play a part in being an advocate for foster children. When trying to help others it always seems to be a hard task before you start advocating. The people I need to target are the President of the YMCA, the Present of children villages (S.O.S) also the Director, disability specialist, of the YMCA. The social workers at S.O.S villages. These people are responsible for making a change or can be the voice to help make a change. I need for the president of the YMCA to understand that when you think about bringing in the dollars for children that need special care, you have to think about the teachers at your center not does not have the educational back ground to provide services for these children. When a classroom has over 3 Foster children and they all have behavior issues that can cause a big problem. The Director need to provide resources and trainings for the teachers to provide the help for these children. There is no reason why I should have over 7 Foster children in my classroom who have sever behavior issues ADHD, Developmentally delay problems and more. How does a classroom function with this problem? How would the classroom management be? How would this affect the other children in the classroom? I would tell you the classroom management would be un-controllable, the teachers would be stressed out, and the other children in the classroom would be at risk of getting hurt and not receive the attention they deserve. These are the things that I have been going through since I became the teacher in a classroom with over 7 Foster children that have been beaten, rapped, and other things that you can only imagine. Before placing children in a classroom with these types of problems I feel that you should make sure that they receive the help they need before being placed.
What are the polices and procedures concerning new children coming into your classroom foster or otherwise???
ReplyDeleteHello Marquitta The polices are that the Social workers have to provide the the childs social history, also they have to show proof that the child is recieving therapy before they enroll in or program. Also they have to set up a confuse with the teacher, social worker, director, for child assisments. Their can only be 5 foster children in the entire program, so their would never be more then 3 foster children inside of one classroom. The foster children are now only provided half day service form 8-12p.m.
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