Improving case management for foster care children and families
             Over 500,000 children in the U.S. currently reside in some form of foster care. Placements in foster care have dramatically increased over the past 20 years. Despite the increasing numbers, the biggest problem is how to properly utilize case management to create a structured decision making/assessment for developing the initial service plan, reunification assessment for developing the update service plan, Placement, and finally an ongoing care. All this are parts of the major problem in today's foster care system
             Effective case management includes the following components:
             2. Provide a comprehensive assessment of both the child and the family resources
             3. structured assessment for developing the initial service plan
             4. A reunification assessment for developing the updated service plan
             6. Develop a comprehensive foster care plan
             The first logical step in most foster care agency is placement. Since placement is a vital step, there must be a well planned system in place, whereby the children are immediately placed in appropriate homes.
             Providing a comprehensive assessment of both the child and the family resources is important, because due to the problems with the current system of foster care case management, the first step to a successful placement is a comprehensive assessment. Children and parents in foster care are mostly invisible in communities and often lack many needed supports and resources. Without a well planned comprehensive assessment of both the child and the family, the needs of the child will be neglected and can lead to the child becoming a "runaway". For instance the foster-care system, of which family court is a part, deals with America's most vulnerable and helpless which are the nation's abused, neglected, and abandoned children. With a well prepared comprehensive assessment of both the child and the family...