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    common goal, and being responsible for the self and the whole group. A group has to collaborate in order to deliberate and achieve their common goal because the three phases of deliberation: information gathering, decision-making, and reflection, all refer back to the ability to collaborate with each other. While working in a group, group members should always work toward the goal of becoming a good leader, “a person who makes the groups she or he works in better” (Practice Deliberation as Citizenship

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    care” (1). The Covenant House who provides open doors to troubled children and youth stated that, “23,000-27,000 youth age out of foster care every year” (1). Large numbers of foster youth are becoming homeless because of insufficient foster homes and group homes, unprepared foster parents who take in many foster kids, and foster parents not providing adequately. Issues in the foster care system is not a new issue; there is no true way to fix the system completely, but there are improvements that

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    The Children’s Home. This paper will focus primarily on the Adolescent Residential Services Division which provides housing, schooling, therapy, psychiatric services, and life skills training to children who reside

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    biological parents, other cases are also situated with runaways and homeless teenagers. Children are placed by the court to foster care, these homes are state-certified as are the, caregivers. This is arranged to have the child feel more normal like. Some children have been adopted possibly due to extended periods of time when the child is brought into the home. While many cases are normal others tend to lead to sex trafficking, this “Criminal Business” profits from enslaving these young children for

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    1. What are five goals of juvenile corrections? How effectively are these goals achieved? The goals of juvenile corrections are too deter, rehabilitate and reintegrate, prevent, punish and reattribute, as well as isolate and control youth offenders and offenses. Each different goal comes with its own challenges. The goal of deterrence has its limits; because rules and former sanctions, as well anti-criminal modeling and reinforcement are met with young rebellious minds. Traditional counseling and

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    All throughout the world, there are children who are being neglected, abused, and uncared for in their household. As human beings, we sometimes do not realize the number of children being taken out of their homes and put into foster care. Why? The problem is that many people do not know what foster care is or have very little knowledge of it. In this speech, you will be given a better understanding of the foster care history, reasons coming into care, types of placement, and aging out. Foster care

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    For years there have been an excessive number of children in and out of the foster system. Quite a few children have succeeded; however, other children have not. A few children have looked to drugs, alcohol and violence to cope with what they have gone through and/or what they are currently going through. A number of those children ended up in a juvenile detention center or prison for breaking the law. Foster parents are desperately needed to help these children succeed in life and make it through

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    going AWOL after hating foster homes, Olivia’s life was far from perfect. When Olivia was a teenager she was a ward of the county, hopping from one group home to another. Other girls would steal her clothes and chase her around with a hot iron. She went AWOL shortly after that, living in her own apartment, having a crazy work schedule, that was just her life. Whenever she had financial issues she would return to her social worker and yet again be put into a foster home. One time she went AWOL though

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    Foster care is one of the major issues still faced in this world today. According to Crosson-Tower (2013), in the early 1800s, boarding homes were instituted with the idea of rescuing “good” children from ‘bad” parents. She noted that the idea of paying for foster homes to house children was renounced because agencies advocating foster care argued that it would lead to foster parents taking children for money rather than out of altruism. However, she also explained that the practice of paying for

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    Welfare Information Gateway, 2017). Many of these children will be placed in several different homes over the time of their stay in the system. These recurring placements can create problems for our youth in the future. Numerous placements can inhibit personal development by creating barriers to their ability to learn how to form lasting bonds in relationships, something normally developed in their home life. It can also cause issues with continuity to their academics and medical care. Children who

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