Urban Foster Care.

As a child that was adopted inside my family, it was not the most supportive environment but it was not like a foster home from the inner city where I started as a baby. My brother and I were moved out to Montgomery County, Maryland from DC. I was afforded a good education, which gave me options and a better insight on life.But my question is?

What I want to know is What program is in place for the children that are not adapted in to homes, with access to a quality education? After going through homelessness this past year, I found out why. It seems that organizations have contracts with local and state governments for homeless and children that have aged out of the system. Their intended purpose is to show this population how to become productive citizens. But from my inside view, that is not happening. In fact because of the financial gain, they are creating a system dependency. I always say that people make more money from your confusion than you knowledge. As the education and employment landscape is changing, it is hurting this population because the lack of education.

One of the issues is that not all of the companies have the capacity to truly fulfill the needs of the population.The second is that they are not staffed with social work professionals, which have extensive training in this area.There is the social work reinvestment act that is in the beginning stages under Dorothy Heights name. She worked for years in the area of social work, making lives better. This piece of legislation a good start in the right direction, to fix this problem. These social issues are affecting the inner cities around the country, especially with the development in low- income area's.Just what is going to happen to the future if this is not corrected? Will America still be able to compete with our foreign counter parts?



7/6/10
by multifacet
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