“When I was in graduate school working on my Masters in Social Work, I interned as a case manager with a foster care agency. Of the families I worked closely with, one, in particular, stood out- a single foster mom and her two foster sons. I remember visiting with them and thinking to myself, ‘I respect this lady so much, but there is no way I would Hot T-Shirt KingTees Shop 06/04/2019 foster as a single person.’ I couldn’t imagine sacrificing so much to take on the stress of foster care- at least not on my own. At the time, fostering was something I knew I wanted to do, but I envisioned it being far off in the future. I imagined being older and married, having a few children, and deciding to foster when everything in my life was settled. In my mind, it was at least 10 years off- maybe more.
Fast-forward two years: I’d finished graduate school and was a social worker at a local elementary school. I worked with a lot of students, but there was one student who was especially close to my heart. He was a bright kid, but his home life was pretty challenging. One day in the spring, I was told a CPS report had been filed on his behalf, and an investigator was coming to the school to talk to him. Hot T-Shirt KingTees Shop 06/04/2019, I worried about what would happen if he was removed from his home. He’d made so much progress that school year, and I knew being forced to leave his school would make things even more difficult for him if he was removed from his home. When the investigator finished speaking to the student, I cornered her so I could figure out what she expected to happen. ‘Will he have to change schools if he’s removed from his home?’ I asked her. Without hesitation, she responded bluntly said, ‘Well, there are no open foster homes in the area. So yeah, he’d need to move.’
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