The Affordable Care act (ACA), was passed in March, 2010; however, fully implemented in January, 2014, for transitional youths to be covered under this act. This act supports families and/or individuals immersed in the child welfare organization, predominantly adolescences that have matured out of foster care (Emam & Golden, 2014). The Affordable Care Act rises the amount of transitional youths to retrieve health insurance, makes it easier to enroll for insurance, necessitates that contains substance abuse and mental health coverage, in addition to health amenities, and indorses improvements to aid organization of continuous distribution of care (Emam & Golden, 2014). More precisely, the ACA incorporates a directed establishment to require …show more content…
By allowing each transitional youth to receive necessary care, he is able to get a job in the community instead of committing illegal actions as well as able to purchase a home instead of living on the streets. It is important that every child welfare worker is aware of the Affordable Care Act for transitional youth and how to help the young adult become covered and receive the help he desires. By giving young adults that have aged out of the foster care mental, health, and substance abuse care, will help the United States experience less crime rate later on in the young adult’s life and give him more positive opportunity to better the community, state and …show more content…
Young adults who are over the age of 18 that have not signed up for Medicaid can also immediately enroll if they were part of the foster care system. This establishment is anticipated to provide adolescents and young adults insurance without any setbacks until they are age 26 because youths that have not been placed in foster care are able to stay on his parent’s health insurance until the age of 26. Foster care youths should be given the same rights as children that were not placed in foster care. Present-day Medicaid guidelines command eligibility to be sustained automatically every time the state has adequate evidence to validate young adult to continue to be covered. This is important because it eliminates the state to conduct eligibility reviews and saves the state money in the long run. Since many young adults may move around the state or out of state, it gives him access to insurance regardless of his location and not have to worry about any documents to sign to review his eligibility (Houshyar,
As an intern at Eggleston Family Service I was assigned to overlook children in foster care and their adjustment to their placement. One of my cases was unique from the others because it involved a teenage boy that was close to emancipation. He was 17 years old and eager to leave the foster care system. He told me he was tiered of moving from placement to placement and wanted to be independent. The problem was that he did not have a plan after emancipation. He did not know where to go and had no income. He was determined to never see another social worker in his life. Clients have the right to self-determination no matter what decision they make but seeing this young man with no idea on what to do was alarming. I had to convince him how important it is to have a
The current system has not been good for children. In 1965 there were 3.3 million children on AFDC; by 1992, that had risen to over 9 million children despite the fact that the total number of children in this country has declined. Last year, the Department of Health and Human Services estimated if we do nothing, 12 million will be on AFDC in 10 years. Instead of working up, we find more and more children being trapped in a system and into dependency on welfare. 90 percent of the children on AFDC live without one of their parents. Only a fraction of welfare families are engaged in work. There are always the sad accounts of how, again and again, women would get off of welfare, they would be doing well on their own, but their child-care would fall apart just as they were getting back on their feet. The new bill provides $3.5 billion more than current for that needed child care.
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The Affordable Care Act introduced a plan that would allow Americans with pre-existing conditions to obtain health insurance without the hassle of being turned down or fear of being charged higher premiums. The Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan was effective as of July 1, 2010. It allowed patient access to affordable healthcare in which they were previously denied due to their pre-existing condition (Affordable Care Act Summary, n.d.). Patients were required to be uninsured for at least six months before they obtained this form of health insurance. In January 2014, the PCIP plans no longer exist due to funding issues so Amer...
For many teenagers, their 18th birthday is an exciting time in their lives. They are finally becoming a legal adult, and are free from the rules and restrictions created under their parents. But not all teens feel the same joy about this coming of age. For the hundreds of thousands of children living in foster care in the United States, this new found freedom brings anxiety and fear. Where will they live after turning 18? How will they get the medications they may need? How will they find a job with little to no experience? How will they put themselves through school? Aging out of foster care is a serious issue among America’s youth. Every year, 20,000 children will age out with nowhere to go, being expected to be able to survive on their own (Reilly 728). Young adults face various obstacles upon aging out of foster care, such as multiple health problems/issues, homelessness, and finding/maintaining a job.
The book “Breaking Night” by Liz Murray is a memoir that describes Liz Murray’s life growing up with a substance addicted mother and father. The memoir recounts Liz Murray’s struggles including taking care of her mother, who battled substance addiction and severe mental illness, truancy, and homelessness. Throughout Liz Murray’s story there were countless systems that failed her and her family. Several systems, including social services and school, could have implemented several federal, state, and local policies that could have provided assistance to Liz Murray’s family and alleviated the stress on Liz Murray that enabled her from successfully attending school on a regular basis. While reading the memoir, I was able to identify two different housing policies that could have been implemented to reduce or eliminate Liz’s risk of homelessness. The two housing policies/programs that were identified were McKinney-Vento Act and the Frank Melville Supportive Housing
The foster system intends to place children in homes where they will remain until they can find permanent residence with an adoptive family. Sadly, this is often not the case with children placed privatized homes and they end up bouncing from home to home until they eventually age out of the system forced to enter into adulthood with no permanent family ties. Over the past decade the number of teenagers aging out of the system without a permanent family has risen from 19,000 to 23,000 per year. These teenages enter into the world without emotional, relational, or financial support and therefore possess a greater risk of poverty as well as low academic achievement. This causes many of these teenagers to rely on government benefits during their adult lives which places a heavier burden on taxpayers. The National Council for Adoption reported that the 29,000 teenagers that aged out of the system in 2007 will cost over one billion dollars per year in public assistance and support. These teenagers who age out are also found to be at greater risk of concerning behaviors, such as: creating disciplinary problems in school, dropping out of school, becoming unemployed and homeless, becoming teenage parents, abusing alcohol and drugs, and committing crimes. The privatized system does not have the best interest of the children in mind and
On a Micro level of social work I feel that the strengths of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act outweigh the weaknesses greatly. Although the services might not always benefit the client the main goal is to provide successful services to the youth. Depending on the situation it is stated in the RHYA that many youth are in need of urgent temporary shelter and services. First and for most safe and appropriate shelter is provided for the homeless youth. Individual, family and group counseling services are available under this act. () As well as providing the youth with many opportunities, such as drug prevention, street and home based services, GED and high school training, acquiring job skills and obtaining employment. Along the line of basic services offered, most age ranges are covered. Immediate shelter, a Transitional Living Program and a Maternity group home are offered to these youth coming off the streets. The Maternity Group home provides supervised transitiona...
Medicaid supports children who are under the age of nineteen, people over the age of sixty five, enrollees who are disabled and those that need permanent nursing home care. Potential beneficiaries can find an application for Medicaid at their State’s Medicaid agency (Medicare.gov, 2008).
In conclusion, child protective intervention services through foster care have been the responsibility of provincial and territorial governments in Canada. These governments provide these services to children deemed to be in need of protection temporarily or permanently. However, the country has been faced with several concerns regarding its foster care system because it contributes to increased homelessness, criminal activity, and inability to achieve higher education for children aging out of foster care. These problems are attributed to the lack of legislative provisions and policies in Canada that promote effective transition from foster care to adulthood. Therefore, the Canadian government needs to identify and implement effective transition programs and supports into current policies to improve outcomes for young people aging out of foster care.
Like Newton, Litrowinik, & Landsverk’s study, the children between the age ranges of three and nine, but extended to the age of fifteen as well. The results of all the experiments lead to the same idea: the placement of children into the foster care system has a negative affect on their behavioral, mental, and emotional development, however each study suggests different ways to go about fixing this negative effect. Harden (2004) states that, “In order to create ‘harm-free, effective environments’ for foster children, child welfare systems must provide support and training to foster parents, establish a well-specified model of care to promote child well-being, focus on the positive behaviors of caregivers and children, and create consumer-oriented services that respond specifically to child and family needs.” (p 44) Similarly, Newton, Litrowinik, &Landsverk (2000) explain that these children should be identified and managed via treatment in foster care or therapeutic settings, and that placement workers need to continue to make concerted efforts on behalf of these children. Yet in contrast, Doyle (2007) suggests that children, especially older, on the margin of placement tend to have better outcomes when they remain at home as opposed to being placed in
The problem of abuse, drug use, and neglect in the foster care system should be addressed immediately and effectively. Community agencies, government agencies, private agencies, schools, Child Protective Services (CPS) and law enforcement need to come together as a team and work collaboratively to help prevent, track and monitor children being placed in any type of foster care or transitional care program. In order to address these issues of abuse, exposure to drugs, neglect, early pregnancy and other mental health issues like anxiety and depression; a plan needs to be in place to fully track all children or child being placed in a different home other than their primary home. This needs to be the primary responsibility of everyone involved
Each year, six hundred and fifty thousand children in the United States spend time in foster care (Children’s Rights “Adoptions” 1). But most people do not know that because most people are among the other seventy three million, two hundred and ninety one thousand, eight hundred and forty eight people who live in stable homes. The majority of the population does not know the faults of the foster care system, because most have not lived it. In the mid nineteenth century, the foster care system was established. Since then, there have been many developments to the system, and today it is imperfect and inadequate. All across the United States, the foster care system needs to be reformed and now is the perfect time because there is a growing number
Between 1982 and 1992, the nation’s foster care population doubled. The General Accounting Office (GAO) estimated in 1998 that there were 500,000 to 600,000 children living in foster care placements nationwide. One major cause of these increased numbers is drug use”. (O'Flynn, 1999) Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy. Retrieved November 1, 2016. The problem then was drugs and that issue is still a problem in the America. However, in ruel areas it is a bigger problem than in other locations. The drug issue has gotten better over the years, but children are still being placed into foster care for other
There is much evidence documenting the serious damage suffered by children without permanent homes who are placed in substandard foster homes. Children frequently become victims of the "foster care shuffle," in which they are moved from temporary home to temporary home. A child stuck in permanent foster care can live in 20 or more homes by the time she reaches 18. It is not surprising, therefore, that long-term foster care is associated with increased emotional problems, delinquency, substance abuse and academic problems.5