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The Sanchez family migrated to the United States several decades ago undocumented when Hector became an immigrant agriculture worker. Hector was able to obtain a green card that awarded him with permanent residency in 1986. Hector also applied for the same status for his wife and their three children at the time. Today, Hector and Celia Sanchez have been married for forty years, have six children which three still live in their home, and one grandson that is has been placed in their care by the child welfare system. Recently, Celia’s undocumented nephew arrived in the United States and moved into the Sanchez home increasing the number of individuals living in the home to seven. After providing background information for the Sanchez family this …show more content…

The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act ensures “A kinship navigator program to assist kinship caregivers in learning about, finding, and using programs and services to meet the needs of the children they are raising and their own needs, and to promote effective partnerships among public and private agencies to ensure kinship caregiver families are served” (Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2008). “The child welfare agency is often involved in providing services to children and families or making referrals to other groups that provide services” (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2010). The Sanchez family would benefit greatest from financial support programs that provide cash to the family including Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) if the family’s income meets the requirements, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for Vicki, and if Hector is eventually laid off Unemployment Insurance (IU) (Chapin, 2014). The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act provides families, such as the Sanchez family, with cash kinship guardianship assistance payments for one to three years (Speaker of the House of Representatives, 2008). Non-cash programs that would assist the family with meeting their needs include Supplemental …show more content…

As the social worker considers the recommendation regarding the future placement of Joey the social worker, first and foremost, must consider the health, safety, and welfare of Joey. Consideration should be given to Emila’s ability to provide a safe and stable environment that meets the basic needs of Joey. Consideration must be given to Emila’s timeliness and compliance level in services including completion of substance abuse treatment to obtain and maintain sobriety, compliance in supervised visitation, parenting education, and gainful employment to provide for herself and Joey. “When children are removed from the home, the parents and guardians must actively participate in family support services to make return of their children to the home possible” (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2012). An additional consideration would include the child’s age and the need for permanent placement. Studies establish, “It is important to provide an expedited placement procedure to ensure that all children, especially those under age 6, who have been removed from their homes are placed in permanent homes in a timely manner” (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2012) to avoid chronic psychological problems and antisocial behavior in adolescences and adulthood due to lack of the critical

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Instead she left with the children, evaded service, was found in contempt by Arizona family court for failure to appear and failure to adhere to the custody and parenting time agreement. While in New Mexico, Mother and the children continued to relocate and continued to be found in contempt of court by Arizona court. This signifies a “significant” connection with the state of Arizona. Additionally, Father resides in the state of Arizona. He pays child support from employment in Arizona, he provides health insurance through his Arizona employer, and he has kept in touch with the families of the children’s friends in the Phoenix

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Their family staying together is what kept them going “But we always fought back, usually as a team” (165) and no matter what problems they faced, at the end of the day, they had each other “‘we may not have insulation,’ Mom said as we all gathered around the stove, ‘but we have each other’”(176). It should come to no surprise that researchers found that “Children usually do better psychologically and that the placement is commonly more stable when they are put into the same foster care home with each other, especially when the children are familiar with each other and have a pre-established positive relationship” (Smith). This type of transition would disrupt what normal family life the children had before foster

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Non-licensed relatives also are able to apply for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, if income eligible and Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), granted they are a blood relative who is able to prove with documentation proof of their relationship to the child. Although TANF is a federally funded program it each states is able to decide how these funds are used. With the large push for relative placement of children in foster care, there is a large discrepancy in financial and supportive services offered. Currently there are no plans to make changes to the TANF guideline to include the addition of non-relative placements for children in foster care that would enable them to apply for these benefits. Having a supportive child welfare system and economic services system that works together to support relative and fictive kin placements is important and could result in less children in foster

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