It should be noted that this hearing was assigned to the venue of finance as legislation has been introduced to reconstruct the purpose of child welfare.
The U.S. Government wants to stop removing children from families and stop wasting money on foster care by investing in individuals, parents and children, to become productive members of society.
The Competition.
In this video, you have the Christian-based organization, the Foundation for Government Accountability which is not advocating for change in child welfare system, but is rather promoting its conservative postition of profiteering from others.
Instead of using the term "Foster Family", it has adopted the term "Safe Family".
Still functioning under the faith-based initiatives in foster care, these "host parents" will be financially compensated by the federal government through state foster parent payments.
Notice how there is no mention of providing direct financial assistance to the origianl parent.
There is a direct correlation between poverty and foster care.
As long as there is poverty, there are those who will find a way to profit from it.
Child welfare is a multi-billion dollar, unregulated industry and the war has begun on who gets funding: Parents v. Foster Parents
I stand to applaud Senator Orin Hatch's bold initiative to bring this matter to the public light.
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2 comments:
I think you misunderstand what Safe Families for Children actually does. Host families are private volunteers and do not receive compensation of any kind. They aren't foster parents. They don't receive foster care payments. The parents retain full custody and the state is not involved whatsoever. It is a completely voluntary relationship between parents in crisis and host families.
The entire goal is to keep at-risk families out of the foster care system when all they need is an adequate support system, a safe environment for their children, and time to deal with a crisis.
Basic information about their group is here: http://www.safe-families.org/whatis_whowehelp.aspx
And who are going to be facilitating this wonderful activity?
I have never, ever made contentions that foster parents get money. Actually, foster parents should be paid much, much more for what they do. Increasing the rates encourages greater oversight and compliance. Besides, this money is but a pittance to the revenue maximization schemes of the contracted agencies which facilitate these wonderful programs.
The program may have a goal, but how it is executed is another thing.
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