What is ACS foster care?
In October, NYC’s child welfare agency, the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), released a concept paper on foster care and residential services, outlining its “vision for family foster care and residential foster care services for children and families across New York City.”
Can a social worker Foster?
Social workers play a valuable role in helping foster children and families. While there are different types of social workers within foster care, all contribute to helping children achieve their full potential.
What makes a good fostering social worker?
Your supervising social worker will be active in helping match you with a suitable child. They should be the people who know you well and as such be able to assist the team on what is likely to work and what may not, given your individual circumstances and ambitions.
What do foster social workers do?
The fostering social worker job description can include providing mental health counseling services, teaching parenting skills, repeated check-ins with children and foster families, and helping other family members acclimate to the new situation.
Who are you accountable to as a foster carer?
The difference with a fostered child is that foster carers are caring for them on behalf of the state, and so are accountable for the day-to-day decisions they take. They will be asked by their fostering service to do some things differently than they might with their own children, to keep everyone safe.
How do you supervise a foster carer?
Meetings have a clear purpose and provide the opportunity to supervise the foster carer’s work, ensure the foster carer is meeting the child’s needs, taking into account the child’s wishes and feelings, and offer support and a framework to assess the carer’s performance and develop their competencies and skills.
Why do foster carers have supervision?
Supervision is essentially a supportive and enabling two way process to: Ensure the foster carers understand how they contribute to the local authority’s services for children; Recognise and address any difficulties the foster carers’ own children may be experiencing arising from fostering; and.
How often do foster carers have supervision?
once every six weeks
Why is supervision necessary in fostering?
Supervision helps you to evidence how you are developing, meeting the induction Standards and providing an appropriate placement for the child/young person. If you are not happy in any way with the arrangement or content of supervision, speak to your Supervising Social Worker or a manager from the fostering service.
What is supervision in fostering?
Supervision for foster carers is a formal process for meetings between foster carers and their social worker from the agency the carer works with. The meeting is different from the day to day home visits which provide support to the carer.
What is a safer care plan fostering?
The aim of the Safe Care Plan is to enable foster carers to demonstrate how they propose to make their home as safe as is reasonably practical, both emotionally and physically, for both the carer and their family, and for any child placed. The Safe Care Plan should provide a ‘map’ of family routines and rules.
What are the roles of foster parents?
The responsibilities of a foster parent are many, but some of the main roles include:
- Providing a safe home.
- Providing love and support.
- Attend to a child’s education.
- Attend to a child’s health needs.
- Managing children’s behaviour.
- Encourage contact with family.
- Attend meetings and be a team player.
- Continue to improve skills.