Foster Care Pros And Cons

The article is entitled “DCFS wards languish in psych hospitals, shelters, detention: audit” by Duaa Eldeib. The article was about the child welfare system and how children are being in the system much longer than they should because the agency does not have a foster care placing for them. It was stated that the delay in placement was due to scheduling visits and long wait lists. It was also stated that children who were in psychiatric hospital were they much longer than they needed to be because they had nowhere else to go after discharging.
The audit reports showed that some DCFS workers were not completely filling out paperwork and the caused a delay in placement. However, some of the children did not have placement because some of them would runaway causing the foster parents to not accept them back in. Which in turn limited the available foster care placements. When DCFS got audited it brought a lot of their problems on the surface such as paperwork, lack of placement causing an over crowd in the hospitals and juvenile detention centers.
This article relates to current reading in many ways. In the reading it talks about the foster care system and how foster care became a long

She wanted society to see how the DCFS workers are and what they are not doing to properly getting children placed in homes. She point out keynotes that emphasized that the reason that some of the improper placing is happening is simply because workers aren’t doing their job. They also worked with too many systems causing work to go missing. The article do not touch basis on family reunification which could possibly be the reason why DCFS workers are putting children in mental health hospitals and making them stay longer than they are needed. The author wanted the audience to know that the “children are suffering and there is a chronic shortage of placement for children in the foster care system” (Elieib,