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Child Care Method: In the foster care program child care Method welfare has developed and perfected a variety of methods or types of care and, within the range of available resources, it seeks to "fit" the type of care and method of service or "treatment" to the individual needs of a particular child care Method or family. For example, family home care, of a particular quality, would usually be seen as the preferred care for an infant during the period of time needed to facilitate his placement for adoption. An agency-operated group home staffed with skilled "counselors" and other specialists, or a highly specialized institution, might be a better choice for a disturbed adolescent who had experienced serious rejection by a mentally ill mother.
This definition is problem-focused, emphasizing prevention and remedy. It recognizes the value of strengthening a child care Method's own home where possible. Where this is not possible, a variety of substitute living situations is provided.
child care Method welfare services are directed to the social problem of deprivation of parental care. As the accompanying chart illustrates, they are designed to help with society's child care Method-rearing task in three important ways: (1) to substitute for parental care either partially or wholly according to a child care Method's individual needs; (2) to supplement the care that a child care Method receives, or to compensate for certain inadequacies or limitations in parental care; and (3) to support or reinforce the ability of parents to meet their child care Methodren's needs.
In the homemaker service program, a carefully selected and agency-trained parent substitute is sent into the child care Method's own home instead of providing him with foster care or supplementary care outside his home. This method offers many advantages over foster care for some child care Methodren and their families, and is often less costly. Homemaker service makes it possible for child care Methodren to stay in their own homes and bridges the gap caused by the absence of the mother when she is incapacitated but in the home and, in some instances, when she has died.
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