Foster Childen - Foster Child Education Statistics Will Make You Sad or Mad

Yesterday we posted these foster kid statistics about foster children in Georgia. Education is vital to the welfare of all children, especially foster kids because many will age out of foster care with no one to care or support them other than themselves. Foster home instability has a negative impact on these children's education as well as a financial cost to schools.


We realized we had hit a nerve because of the many comments we received. Responses to these foster kid statistics ranged from "These stats are really disturbing." by Gia Heller, an international expert on social media to Helene Illston, a former foster parent, who wrote,

"What's really sad is that these same kids grow up to be adults that don't stand much of chance and then create more dependent children and then the cycle starts all over again."

The research shows that foster children in Georgia move from one foster home to another on average 7-10 times while they are in the system. This movement causes these kids to lose up to half a year of school resulting in some foster youth missing as much as four years of education.

An impact study reported in JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association, researched to effect of frequent movement on students. They looked at nearly 10,000 children. Although the study is dated (1993) and the focus was not on foster children specifically, the findings are most pertinent to these kids.

The study found the following between kids who moved frequently and those who moved infrequently or never:

The study conclusion was:

"Frequent family relocation was associated with an increased risk of children failing a grade in school and four or more frequently occurring behavioral problems."

Another, more recent international study (1997) that focused specifically on foster kids found unequivocal results concerning foster children and education:

• Foster youth dropped out of high school at a much higher rate and were significantly less likely to have completed a GED.
 
• Foster youth reported more discipline problems in school and experienced more educational disruption due to changing schools.
 
• They were significantly less likely to be in a college preparatory high school track.
 
• The adults in the lives of the foster care youth were less likely to monitor homework.

There is also the direct financial hit that the education system takes for each student that is retained, kept back a grade. A study by the Brookings Institute revealed that:

Given average per pupil spending of roughly $10,700 (the most recent national estimate), the direct cost to society of retaining 2.3 percent of the 50 million students enrolled in American schools exceeds $12 billion annually.

Foster kids make up a significant percentage of all children who move frequently, costing the public educational system as much as $28,890 (based on the average stay in foster care of 2.7 years). Add this amount to the already sizeable investment of $80,000 to $190,000 paid out in services to support the average foster child.

There is one bright spot about the educational situation for foster kids. A 2006 foster care study uncovered two encouraging findings that positively help foster children.

1. A positive placement history (e.g., high placement stability, few failed reunifications)
2. A broad independent living preparation (as exemplified by having concrete resources upon leaving care).

One of the best ways to give foster children high placement stability is finding their family members so these kids can be in relative placement. Studies show that these foster youth do much better academically.

Although clearly the education of foster youth suffers greatly due, in part, to constantly changing home environments, this is only one aspect of the overall challenges experienced by these children. We also have to wonder at the real functionality of the U.S. foster care system. It becomes obvious that there is much more money being invested to support foster kids. We have to ask not only ourselves but our government representatives if it isn't way past time to make some important long-term management changes in the system.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
760-690-3995

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Foster Children - Sibling Foster Kids Now Have Chance at a Permanent Home with Relatives

The foster care statistics above say it all. One of the worst things that could ever happen to a foster child is for him/her to age out of foster care with no family connections. And yet 24,000 foster children in 2014 will be forced out of their foster home environment and into the street. Many will have absolutely no family support because no relatives were found by foster care agencies.


Now imagine that you are in a foster home, and your older sister has been sent away. Both of you are alone, separated, and you are so upset because you know your sister is out there somewhere trying to find food and a place to live.

Fortunately, foster children can move out of the system and into a permanent home with loving, caring family members. The challenge is that sometimes relatives can't be found through normal means.

CASA of Travis County, Texas brought us a case involved two siblings. Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children is a national organization with a network of 951 community-based programs that recruit, train and support citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in courtrooms and communities. These children are often foster youth.


By the time we got this case, the older sister had already aged out of foster care and was on her own. Child Protective Services, CPS, has not been successful at finding relatives of these children. The fear was that in several years the brother would also be forced out of foster care, and both would spend the rest of their lives with no family to help them other than each other.

CASA had some information on relatives possibly living in Mexico and hoped that Find Families In Mexico could find them. Anjuli Barak, CASA Family Finding Specialist wrote,

"The child... has had no contact with family members for a number of years and has suffered greatly because of it."

If we were successful and found at least one adult family member, it would change the lives of these two siblings forever.

Within a few weeks, CASA was able to call and talk with the children's birth father as well as with several other adult relatives. CASA also learned that these foster children have two aunts living in Illinois and has passed that information to CPS.

Some people wonder if, with so many foster youth already in the system and hundreds of thousands more coming in yearly, finding family members is worth the effort. I understand the frustration and maybe the sense of helplessness against overwhelming numbers. However, I think that Ms. Barak counters that concern with her comments,

"We feel confident that we will be able to reconnect these siblings with their relatives and instill hope in a hopeless situation."

Moving foster youth out of the system and into permanent homes with relatives benefits the children, the foster care system and society. Supporting an organization such as Find Families In Mexico is a smart move because we are the reason why many foster kids are now safely out of foster care and not homeless or turning to crime for food and money.

Not helping these children is simply not an option.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
760-690-3995

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Foster Children - Foster Care Statistics Show the Deck Is Stacked Against Them

Many people have asked us over the past month how is it that foster children are not receiving the services they so desperately need. Two such services are family finding and relative placement.


Family finding is a social service's and governmental term for the activity of identifying, locating and notifying adult family members that one of their related children is in foster care. Federal and often state laws mandate thorough efforts be executed to locate family members of foster kids so they can move out of foster care and into "relative" placement, living with family as opposed to complete strangers.

Nearly 84,000 U.S. foster youth have Hispanic ancestry with the majority having some relatives still living in Mexico.

As we have commented in the past, many foster care agencies lack the resources or the training to effectively perform family finding in Mexico. Fortunately, due to our increased outreach to agencies around the country, more and more cases are being brought to us. The result is that more foster children are now reconnected with their families, and many are now out of the system and living with adult relatives in the U.S.

However, there are still tens of thousands of children who are languishing in a government institution (group home) in part because many agencies claim a lack of funding to support family finding in Mexico. This brings us back to the foster care statistics above.


The foster care system has a serious money problem. That problem is in how they allocate our tax dollars to support the system and not foster children.

Let's see how this funding mismanagement is working against getting foster kids out of the system and into permanent homes with their relatives. These two issues, family finding and relative placement, are inseparably linked together.

I've already said that some agencies use lack of funds as a reason not to perform family finding even though this is a federal requirement. When a foster child's relatives are located, the most likely outcome is that the child will be in relative placement.

There is a HUGE incentive for foster care agencies not to find relatives. Using the chart above, we see that when foster kids are placed in a group home, the agency now has $102,348 to spend on caring for each child. There are also 45 group homes involved with the necessary staff to run those facilities.


Here are the hard numbers:

Relative Placement

11,188 foster children living in homes with caring, loving relatives

Cost: $47.1 million/year

Group Home Placement

1,070 foster children living in government operated facilities 

Cost = $109 million/year

Or to really put this into context, if those 1,070 children in group home placement were instead in relative placement, there would be a savings of:

 

You may think that more money clearly means a better outcome for foster youth. You would be mistaken. Studies show that foster kids generally do better in all areas of their lives and their futures are far superior to those children in either foster care placement or a group home.


Now here's the real crime against foster children. Sex trafficking victims are most likely to be former foster youth with some children still being in the foster care system. The foster care statistics above show that an overwhelming amount of personnel and support are available for kids in group foster homes. Yet children who are physically and sexually abused and become victims of sex trafficking are for the most part those same children in either foster care placement, a non-family home, or in a group home.

We all want the best for those children who through no fault of their own, end up in foster care. We expect that the government will do its best to protect these children and get them out of foster care as fast as possible. The mission of foster care agencies is to have these children either returned to their parents or, in those cases where this is not safe or possible, to have the children in relative placement.


Unfortunately, based on studies such as the one above and many more, it is in the best interest of agencies not to locate family members for all foster youth. Failing to locate relatives, those foster children can now be fed into foster care placement or a group home, both which provide less safety for foster kids and a much greater probability of them aging out and living a life being homeless, undereducated or ending up in prison.


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There is a lot of money in foster care. It's just that not enough is going to finding family members and putting children in relative placement.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
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Foster Child - Reconnecting Foster Kid with Relatives

Once a child enters foster care, agencies begin searching for adult family members and can have a success rate as high as 80%. However, there are cases where no relatives of a foster child are found in the U.S., usually meaning that the foster kid will probably leave the system by either being adopted or aging out. Fortunately, for many foster youth there is a third, important alternative that can change their lives forever.


Casa Pacifica is a non-profit in Ventura County that as part of their services handles locating relatives of foster children. The organization had a case where the only known relatives of a pre-teen U.S. foster child where supposedly living in Mexico. 

The challenge was that the town where these family members were thought to be living was in a very remote area of Mexico. Such small towns may have only one public phone that all the locals use. In this case, there was no telephone service, no Internet and no cell phone reception.

Casa Pacifica brought the case to Find Families In Mexico. One critical reason to search for relatives is that this child would at least have a connection to his family even if he stayed in foster care.

Foster children, ages 12 and above, have
less than a 1% chance of being adopted.

Unless relatives were located, this foster youth was at risk of spending the next six years of his life in a government facility. One study places the estimated cost for foster care services over that time period to be $389,160.

Despite the challenges, Find Families In Mexico located an aunt of the foster child. Jill Borgeson, Program Manager wrote,

"Rosie Lopez, Case Manager, was shocked that your organization had any success at all because of the town’s remote location. We consider your company’s ability to track down members of this family under these circumstances as nothing short of miraculous. We have already started the process to reconnect this child with an aunt on the mother’s side of the family."

By finding this foster youth's relatives, he has a chance to know where he comes from, who his family is and to have ongoing support through his life.

Ms. Borgeson went on to write that "You have proven your services to us in several cases, none of which we had been able to make progress based on our own resources. We are confident that we can count on your continued services in locating family members for other foster children who have relatives still living in Mexico."


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Reconnecting a foster youth with their family members is a huge win. A week later, Rosie Lopez, Case Manager, reported that the family is "so, so happy" to be reconnected with their relative foster child. These children do much better mentally and emotionally plus there are enormous savings in foster care services. Finding relatives, no matter where they are, is the humane, caring and civilized thing to do.

Regards,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
760-690-3995

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Foster Child - Neglected Foster Kid Found Wandering Streets in Riverside, Ohio

 

Once again there's a story about a foster child gone missing. This time a 7-year-old hungry and barefoot girl was found by a neighbor.


The neighbor, a mother of a 4-year-old daughter, first tried to reach Child Services to report the incident. After half an hour with no response, the mom called the police. The mom told police that the foster child:

"said she’d been out walking the neighborhood all morning [the girl wasn't found until 11:30] and she didn’t have any shoes on and she said she was hungry... her foster mom asked her to leave so she didn’t know where else to go.”

Once the police arrived, they told the mom that this was not the first time that this foster kid had been found alone wandering around the neighbor. The foster home where the child stays had been previously investigated.

Despite the many dedicated and caring foster parents who open their doors to take in children, the majority of these cases of abuse or neglect seem to involve foster children in "foster placement," living with adults who are not related to the child.

One area of deficiency for many foster care agencies is the lack of thorough efforts to locate relatives of foster youth. Experts report that in general foster kids placed with their family members are happier, healthier, have less emotional issues, perform better in school and have higher graduation levels.

One proven solution is for the public and businesses to donate to foster youth services such as Find Families In Mexico, where the sole focus is to locate family members of foster children so these kids can be placed with relatives.


Reporters later spoke with the Montgomery County CPS (Child Protective Services) that explained that this particular foster home was under the management of a Southwest Ohio agency. Much greater accountability needs to be placed on social service agencies.

As taxpayers we count on the billions of dollars spent on foster care to provide foster kids with a place where they will be properly cared for and protected against abuse and neglect. Unfortunately, too many adults are using the system to put money in their pockets while leaving physical, mental and emotional scars on the most vulnerable of our children.

There are no easy, fast solutions, but more pressure must be placed on agencies to comply with federal and state laws that mandate thorough and ongoing efforts to find family members and unite them with their related foster children. Until that happens, more foster children will wander neighborhoods, hungry for both food and love.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
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Foster Children - Dismal Foster Kid Statistics

Based on the statistics above, clearly foster youth need more help than they are presently receiving.


It's estimated that 24,000 foster teens will age out of foster care in 2014. What the statistics above don't show is the incredible cost both in services for children while in foster care and the billions of dollars that will be spent to help them once they age out.

One way to help foster children is to support efforts to find their family members. This will help ensure that these kids don't become another statistic leading lives of desperation and homelessness.


We can do better. Foster youth deserve better.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
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Foster Child - Left in Foster Care, Finally Reunited with Mother

When you mention foster children, people's thoughts may go to a small child who is alone in a government institution. Although this is often the case, there is another group of foster youth who are often overlooked, that of children who have aged out of foster care. These adults often carry a lot of hurt and as they got older, they become desperate to find and reunite with their family.

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One such foster child was Debra. She had been living with her mother, brother and sister until Debra's world fell apart at age 15. That's when her mother decided to go back to Mexico. The most painful part for Debra was not the idea of having to leave her friends and schoolmates. No, the most painful part was that her mother took Debra's younger siblings and abandoned Debra who was placed taken into the foster care system. She aged out at age 18 and was completely alone.

Debra became engaged with and then married a soldier in the army. By age 22, she had started a serious search to find her mother. Despite having a lot of information on the whereabouts of her mother, Debra had been unable to find her.

That's when her loving husband contacted our organization which was not easy task since, at the time, he was stationed in Iraq. He told us about his wife's situation and asked us for help.


One of the many challenges that face foster care agencies is that they lack resources that could allow them find family members of foster children while they are still in the system. Once foster teens age out, their ability is find relatives on their own is very limited especially when those family members live outside the U.S.

The great news is that within a couple of weeks, Debra and her husband received our report with detailed contact information. Debra was able to pick up the phone, call and speak with her mother after being separated from her for seven years. Debra's husband wrote,

"Thanks to your information, my wife was able to talk with her mother after being apart for seven years. Thank you and God bless. A family has been reunited."

This is a result that hundreds of thousands of foster children want. Unfortunately, not enough is invested to help ensure that these children are reconnected with their families either before or after they age out of foster care. Hopefully individuals and companies will be moved to take action to support these efforts that forever change the lives of present and former foster youth for the better.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
Find Families In Mexico
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Foster Children - At-Risk of Abuse by Foster Parents

There are many heart-warming stories about foster parents who selflessly open their homes to foster children. Unfortunately, one foster mom was jailed for abusing her foster child.


Lynn Smith, foster mother to five youths, was arrested because of a video that shows her pushing the head of one of her foster kids into the toilet. Police had been alerted to this and other alleged abuses by an anonymous tipster who wrote:

“She abuses them daily and nobody will do nothing, she withholds food from them and makes them stay in rooms or outside all day. Y’all been there already and the kids are still being abused. This is torture and she needs to be prosecuted.”

Smith had been in jail since June 17 because of a separate incident where she was allegedly shoplifting. She's now out on bail, but  DFAC (Division of Family and Children Services) has removed all five foster kids, ranging in age from 2 to 10, from Smith's home.


You also have to wonder how long this abuse has been going on when the tipster writes, "She abuses them daily." Thank goodness that someone finally decided to take action to ensure the health and safety of these foster youths.

You might think that abusing a foster child is a crime since they are under the protection and care of the government, but you'd be wrong. According to Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills:

"DFACs doesn’t allow corporal punishment on any of their foster kids, but that’s not a crime.”

I don't know about you, but last time I looked, forcing a child's head into the toilet didn't fall under any recognized category of punishment for children. This is the type of action we see on TV when someone is interrogating a criminal or terrorist, not children. State agencies have an obligation to ensure that the foster youth under their care are able to live in a home without the fear of abuse: physical, mental or sexual. 


A proven solution is for agencies to invest more time and energy in locating family members of foster children so these kids can be placed with relatives that statistically result in better treatment and a happier, healthy child.


This time foster children were taken out of harm's way not because of the successful monitoring of their living environment by DFAC but because a caring adult saw an abuse and courageously took action. Let's hope that more people will be equally brave so that the next time, it's not a story about abuse but one of the death of a foster child. As a society, we can and must do better.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
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Foster Kids - Shocking Facts About Hispanics in U.S. Foster Care

With the heavy news coverage about the children crossing into the U.S., many may be (mis)led to believe that certain pieces of information are fact. Publicity experts will tell you that everyone (yes, even us) has an agenda so before you jump on a band wagon, it's always good to have some clarity about what is fact and what is hyped to look like fact.


Case in point - all the children who are suddenly crossing into the U.S. Really? Are they "suddenly" crossing into the U.S.? Actually no. Children and their families have been crossing into the U.S. in larger numbers since last year. We may never know what event finally pushed this issue into the spotlight, but clearly something happened so that the news media has jumped on this story and is working it for all it's worth. That's not necessarily a bad thing, either.

Whether you agree or disagree with local, state or federal policies and the handling of these families and children, the bottom line is that this situation is only now front and center. If nothing else, it's a crisis for politicians who don't want to appear as if they are relaxing in their offices.


Some organizations have done a great job of highlighting where these children are coming from, and it isn't Mexico.


The three dominant countries as identified by ESRI ( Economic and Social Research Institute) and CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) and based on May 2014 figures from Border Patrol apprehensions are Guatemala, San Salvador and Honduras.

And if you think that the U.S., the largest economy in the world, is struggling to get a handle on this matter, just image how Mexico is reeling from having these tens of thousands of children, often without an adult, crossing the southern border of Mexico and again flooding Mexico's northern border cities.


In the same vein of exposing faulty perception for reality, let's address a common perception about foster youth of Hispanic ancestry. As soon as many people hear "Hispanic" and "foster kids," their minds immediately go to "undocumented immigrant children." This thought goes hand in hand with the belief that Hispanic foster children are really Mexican citizens. If these thoughts have crossed your mind, here's an important finding about U.S. foster children of Hispanic descent.

"Children born to Hispanic immigrant parents [in the U.S.] are less likely to end up in foster care, while children of 2nd and 3rd generation [U.S.] Hispanics are MORE likely to end up in foster care."
~ The Urban Institute, 2005

The study found that as generations of Hispanics assimilate into the U.S. culture, they also start to give up or move away from certain aspects of their Hispanic heritage, mainly the close tie to family. Researchers found that parents of these 2nd and 3rd generation children started to pick up bad habits such as gambling, abusing a spouse or the children, and engaging in illicit activities, which can lead to an unsafe environment where CPS (Child Protective Services) has to step in and remove the children.


It's been said before that nothing is as it seems. This couldn't be truer than when it comes to foster youth or even for those children crossing into the U.S. from Central America. It's good to sometimes step back and recognize that few things are direct and simple. Many issues are really not quite what they seem especially when it comes to our foster children. 

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
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Foster Child - Reunited with Only Living Relatives

When a child enters the foster care system, the goal of the agency is to get that foster child into a permanent home as soon as possible. The first step is to locate as many adult relatives as possible. Unfortunately, there are foster youth cases when no other relatives can be located in the U.S. That is when agencies and their non-profit partners have to look elsewhere such as in Mexico.


By successfully finding family members, foster children are reconnected to family members who may decide to take in the child. Since agencies may spend as much as $60,000 a year per foster child, it's also beneficial to the agency and ultimately taxpayers. The financial support for foster kids who are taken in by their family members is much less than what the agency would spend.

Casey Family Programs is one of the most reputable non-profits that works with county foster care agencies in the U.S. They do an excellent job of finding relatives in the U.S., but in this case, the search needed to be done in Mexico to locate the only known living relatives for a little foster girl in Texas.

Imagine that your future depending on an organization finding your relatives. Making this case very challenging was that there was only the name of one family member and only the name of the Mexican state. To put this into perspective, this was like being asked to find Robert Johnson in Texas. Yes, that was all the information there was.

 

You can read more about this foster child story, but of course, there is a happy ending. A relative was found so this little girl doesn't have to go through life with no family support. She won't have to live a life like the tens of thousands of foster youth who do poorly in school, have a low graduation rate and struggle to get and keep a job. This little girl now has a family and someone to support her.

The life of this foster child is changed forever for the better, and it all started with finding her relatives. There are more foster children success stories to be told, but that can't happen until more agencies reach out for help and more people step up to support efforts to reconnect more children with their families.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
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Foster Children: Getting a New Ride

Many foster children have a lot to deal with: moving from home to home, struggling with school work and not having much in the way of clothes. Fortunately, there are many wonderful organizations that provide support to these children and give them a chance to feel like any other kid.


Linking Handlebars is an organization in White Plains, NY that collects bicycles and donates them to Bikes4Kids, which then gives the bikes to foster kids. It's a rare and exciting treat for these kids when they receive something they can call their own.

Lucia Villani, a sophomore in high school, founded Linking Handlebars in 2012. While working at a youth center, Villani noticed that none of the foster children had a bike. She took an idea and with the help of her sister and a couple of friends, these high school students have collected more than 170 bicycles.


Of course another way to help foster youth is to support efforts to find family members of a foster child.


It's truly amazing how teenagers can see a problem and take action. They didn't wait to get permission or let not having a job stop them from making a positive impact on the lives of many foster kids. During the upcoming 4th of July holiday weekend, as you celebrate this country's independence, maybe you could take a moment to think of ways that you could make a difference in the life of a foster child. It would be a great way to show your independence from the ordinary.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
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Foster Kids - Finding Family Key to Happiness

 

One of the best, proven ways to help foster kids is by finding their adult family members.

Several studies reveal that these children are happier and healthier. They do much better in school and have a higher rate of graduating high school than foster teens who are placed with non-family members.

By achieving a higher educational level, these children do better getting and keeping a job. Many foster youth who age out without any family support struggle to get or maintain a job often leading to homelessness.

Although there is no one solution, finding family members and reconnecting these foster children with their relatives is a proven strategy that can change a foster kid's life and give them the family support and nurturing they need to grow into healthy adults.

Do it for the children,


  Richard

Richard Villasana
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