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Too many children in Foster
Care needlessly
by Michelle Konieczny
According to Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR), the primary cause for the national "foster care crises" is not inadequate numbers of foster parents, nor inadequate numbers of adoptive parents for these children. Instead Wexler cites the needless removal of children from homes that are safe or could be made safe with the right kind of services as the root problem.
"Wrongful removal drives everything else." Wexler was quoted as saying in a May 1 News Release. "Wrongful removal overburdens the system, causing agencies to overcrowd foster homes and lower standards. And wrongful removal so overloads the system with children who don't need to be taken from their parents that workers have even less time to find chidlren in real danger. Wrongful removal makes all children less safe."
Wexler also said that Foster Care Awareness Month was an excellent time to become more aware of the many proven programs that keep families together. He also states that these programs have a better track record for keeping children safe than foster care itself. Another plus of these programs is that they are a far better investment of time and money than "another tired recruiting campaign for foster parents".
"We can't recruit our way out of the foster care crises and we can't adopt our way out," Wexler said. "The only way to fix foster care is to have less of it."
More information on family preservation programs can be found by contacting NCCPR online at: http://www.nccpr.org
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