Foster Carer Blames Department of Children And Families For Teenagers’ Predicament

TWO children who were removed from the care of their foster mother over a “minor incident” are now living on the streets, using drugs and committing property crimes.

The foster carer, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the NT News that in the space of two years the two teenage girls she had cared for for 13 years had gone “completely off the rails”.
“(The older girl) has been in 15 different placements, has been in Don Dale, she abuses drugs and alcohol and has a 25-year-old boyfriend ... nobody even knows where she is,” the woman said.
“They (the Department of Children and Families) have destroyed a child who was successfully becoming a young adult and now she rings me and is begging for my forgiveness and asks me ‘why can’t I just come home?’ and I can’t let her because the other children I have at home will be influenced by her.
“She is not safe and I can’t do a damn thing about it.”
The woman said the “shattering” experience almost made her give up her 15-year career of being a volunteer foster parent.
“You didn’t keep my kids safe when you took them,” she said.
“I kept them out of this situation and you’ve allowed them to be sexually abused, allowed them to be drinking and allowed them to be homeless.”
The veteran foster carer said trouble arose during a stressful period when she was trying to merge families together – seven kids in total.
She asked the department to provide a cleaner to help her cope and allow more time to be spent with the kids but it refused.

Following the incident, the woman told DCF about it and subsequently two of the children were removed from her care.
“Instead of the department talking through what happened with us and dealing with it as a family, the flow-through consequence from what they did means they’re in no man’s land now,” she said.
The only the reason the woman kept fostering the other children was because she said “when I take on a kid, I take them on for life”.
“I believe I’ve gone through this because I have the ­capacity to help the department help these kids better than what they are doing now,” she said.
Children’s Commissioner Colleen Gwynne would not comment on the specific case but reiterated comments made earlier this week that supporting foster carers was ­paramount to reduce the NT’s reliance on residential care facilities.

http://www.themercury.com.au/news/national/foster-carer-blames-department-of-children-and-families-for-teenagers-predicament/news-story/98cb2d059a4590d213f8d7f90ad0eae3

Exposed The Department Children And Families Florida Is Misleading

 Florida DCF Exposed(Department of Children and Families) Florida DCF Is Misleading

 

 

The Department of Children & Families needs to be investigated thoroughly. There are things that go on that are very questionable and raises questions about the safety of the children in the foster care system.

 

Florida DCF Is Misleading, Undisclosed Information, Heartless, Emotional Rollcoaster
The Department of Children & Families needs to be investigated thoroughly. There are things that go on that are very questionable and raises questions about the safety of the children in the foster care system. They wait way to long before removing children from bad situations which will affect them for life. The paperwork that is misfiled, lost or even submitted improperly raises questions about the compendence of some of the licensed workers., .. which scares the hell out of me!

 

I started doing fostercare about 3 years ago. I took the required MAPP classes and my paperwork was lost so I had to take the classes all over again. While taking the classes you are mislead VERY much and are told alot of untrue statements. Most of the people who do fostercare are with the intent to adopt the right child that is a good fit with there family.

Your hopes are very high about being placed with a child so you just follow the rules so you think, most of them are madeup as the social workers go along. Not everything will apply for all foster parents, some are favored and get the nicer children. If you ask questions and do not play by there rules , you will be placed with a child from HELL.

 

I was placed with a child who had SEVERE behavior problems, Depression, sexually abused, bipolar and was abusive, so severe that I am still recovering from it emotionally. When I asked for help I was told that I had to wait until the services were approved by the judge. Meanwhile me and my husband were hit, bit and abused. I finally had them removed the child from our home and now the child is in a residental home for viloant children.

The state of Florida DOES NOT reimburst you for all the money you put into the child. $380.00 month does NOT buy what the child needs and wants or any special services that the child might need.

My hopes of adopting a child from the fostercare system have been tarnished. I will never do fostercare ever again or have any dealing with DCF. Maybe in the future the fostercare homes will report any abuse and get theses kids the help that they need early in there little lives.

 

I am currently going through an adoption agency and have not been mislead about anything. May GOD Bless these children who wait for homes.

Read more about the department of children and families at http://www.floridadcf.org


Allison C.
                                                                Florida, USA

http://www.prlog.org/11613614-florida-dcf-exposeddepartment-of-children-and-families-florida-dcf-is-misleading.html

Life should be this calm