foster care system
Government child placement
The foster care system is the network of government agencies, courts, and licensed caregivers that provides temporary homes for children who cannot safely remain with their biological families.
Children enter through abuse, neglect, or parental incapacity; the system aims to reunify families when possible or find permanent placement through adoption.
She aged out of the foster care system at eighteen.
- permanency planningChild welfare placement strategy
- social workersProfessionals helping struggling individuals
- family courtTribunal for household legal matters
- mentoring programsStructured guidance for development
- Medicaid coverageGovernment program funding medical care
mental health counseling · tutoring services · therapists · case managers · home visits · case file · court appointed · child welfare · school counselors · mandatory reporting · substance abuse treatment · reunification · group home · safe haven
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Legal family formation
legal adoption · closed adoption · adoptive family · legal guardianship · permanency
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Relatives by blood origin
nuclear family · family of origin · biological parents · blood relatives · birth parents
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