CPS and foster care
Child Protective Services (CPS)
-protects children from abuse or neglect
-helps to ensure safe and healthy childcare
-provides support/resources
-help with child’s health and development
https://www.childcare.gov/index.php/consumer-education/child-protective-services
Child Welfare (Foster Care)
-“The child welfare system is a group of services designed to promote well-being of children by ensuring safety, achieving permanency, and strengthening families.”
-“The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) brought attention to and need to protect vulnerable children in the U.S. Provides state funding’s to support the prevention, assessment, investigation, and prosecution of child abuse and neglect.
**here is the website for child welfare system there is a PDF download for reading**
https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/cpswork/
I decided to look into the CPS and foster care programs because of what I went through as a child. When I was three months old my mother went missing then when I was six months old it was discovered that my mother was murdered. I was being taken care of by my grandmother at the time. In February when I was six months old my grandmother was caring for me while my father was working. Then CPS came and took me from my grandmother saying that something has happened to Melodee, and she will get me back at the end of the day (which was a total lie). When my mother was discovered to be murdered my father was arrested (and then released later because he didn’t do it) and I got put into the foster care system. My grandmother was fighting to get me out the system and finally got me back just after I turned a year old. From this happening to me I developed severe separation anxiety and an inability to process stress. I have it controlled now but I still have issues processing stress it got to the point where I would get so overwhelmed and stressed out that I would have a seizure from it. Becoming a teacher, I think it would be critical for others to know about CPS and the foster care. So, if one of their students got placed into a similar situation then they would know what to do and how to comfort the child.