How to Keep Kids Out of the Foster Care System

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The traditional foster care system should be a last resort for children. This alternative is better at reuniting and supporting families. • This video was created in partnership with Stand Together. • Subscribe here: http://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe-f... • Children enter the foster care system for many different reasons. Sometimes, they're removed from a situation where they're in danger, but many times – they're removed because their parents are in dire circumstances such as unemployment or a health crisis. Because these parents lack a support system, their children’s basic needs go unmet. • What if there was a resource parents could access for support before the foster care system became necessary? Such a resource could prevent children from ever having to go through the trauma of being separated from their biological parents. • Enter Safe Families for Children, an organization that comes alongside families in crisis with a community of people who care. Safe Families works with parents who have the desire to create happy and healthy environments for their children, if only given help in their time of need. • And it’s working – 95% of children who participate in Safe Families return to their parent or primary caretaker once they’re in a better position to care for them. In 2018, reunification only occurred for 49% of children in the traditional foster care system. • See the full article about reimagining the foster care system here: https://www.freethink.com/shows/catal... • Up next- Could This Be the Future of Foster Care? • Inside a Town Built for Foster Famili... • Follow Freethink. • -Facebook: / freethinkmedia • -Twitter: / freethinkmedia • -Instagram: / freethink • -Website: http://www.freethink.com • Join the Freethink forum: / freethinkforum

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