1. Quotes “With guidance and support from a caring adult, children and youth in foster care [are] resilient and are capable of realizing their fullest human potential.” --Fernando Serrano “Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks.... Be a hero -- take the time learn about adoption today.” --Bruce Willis

2. Introduction Kourtnei Bryant Foster Care

3. Interest My aunt has experience with this topic I have seen many teenagers in foster care and how it affects them Some teenagers have informed me of what their experience was like

4. Paper Topic: Foster Care Driving Question: How does foster care negatively affect teenagers? Thesis Statement: Being in foster care has caused more negative affects on a teenager's academic achievement, emotional behavior, maltreatment, and building attachment

5. Paper Cont. Teenagers who are in foster care have a 35.13% chance of staying in school A teenager’s emotion will get built up, causing them to react differently with the foster parents There is no way to manage the teenager’s behavior, but a discussion is the main thing they need

6. Responsibilities of the foster parent Help the child grow and mature Willingness to work as a team with the social worker, birth parent, and the child Flexible and understanding Accept that the child may have different ideas, beliefs, and ways Help the child to maintain attachment to his family by assisting with visits

7. Summary Most teenagers are able to have a loving foster parents that could take care of them Other teenagers may not get too close to whoever their caregiver is.

8. Product Created a documentary Interviewed many fosters parents/children Found time to meet with the parent/child Help others understand what teenagers have been through, instead of judging them right off hand Did most of my product out of school with my aunt, who was basically my mentor I learned that foster parents/children may have a hard time with dealing with foster care

9. Connection Between Paper and Product Talk to the foster parent/child and ask questions that will help me get to the core of why certain things happen to them. The foster parent have to go through certain things, based on the way the teenager behaves. The teenager goes through many things also, but it could be based on what happens in the home or what took place in their original home.

10. Successes & Challenges Successes: -Able to find people that could tell me their experience with foster care -Dealing with foster care, I learned what the foster parent/child experiences were Challenges: -Finding time to meet with someone to interview -Struggled a little when I had to do revisions for my paper

11. Final Process Reflection Become more comfortable to communicate with others in the workplace Could possibly become a social worker and be able to put teenagers into a home that's best for them

12. Work Cited Quotes with Foster Care. (n.d.). Retrieved March 26, 2013, from http://www.quotesea.com/quotes/with/foster-care http://www.quotesea.com/quotes/with/foster-care "Foster Care Program." City of Chesapeake, 1996. Web. 7 Apr. 2013. http://www.cityofchesapeake.net http://www.cityofchesapeake.net "Foster Care & Adoption." Division of Social Services. 2011. Web. 7 Apr. 2013. <http://www.visitmonmouth.com/page.aspx?ID=2696http://www.visitmonmouth.com/page.aspx?ID=2696

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