In cases where children may not be safe with their family of origin, Child Protective Services CPS looks to foster and adoptive families to provide appropriate temporary and permanent homes for children who cannot live with their parents the Division of Milwaukee Child Protective Services in Milwaukee County.
These cases are transferred to and monitored by ongoing case managers OCM as long as a court order is in place. The OCM ensures the family receives the services it needs to work toward reunification or some other form of permanence for the child.
The OCM is responsible for family assessment and permanency planning, as well as for providing services identified by the court to assist the child and family. Foster and adoptive families must be complete training and licensing requirements. Wisconsin Department of Children and Families website. How do you explain foster care to a child who has not experienced it and does not know other kids who are in foster care?
It is important to be honest and straightforward. Here is a sample of questions that kids often ask about foster care:. It may be hard for kids to understand what exactly foster care means. Foster care is not a place where all kids in foster care go, but a child in foster care lives with a family, in a home, just like other children. The only difference is that a child in foster care is not living with his or her parents because it is not safe.
Often the visits are supervised just to make sure that the kids are safe. As time goes on, a child may get to visit for longer periods of time with his or her parents, and may get to go back home for good. If a child asks about spanking, be careful to make a clear distinction between spanking and abuse. Though many people feel that spanking is an inappropriate form of punishment, many parents do spank their children when other forms of punishment, like time-outs, are not working.
