Count Me In - To Be Inspired: Through The Eyes Of A Foster Youth Alumni (CA)

1. Children in foster care forget who their birth families are, and just move on with life.

True

False

2. Having a relationship or bond with birth families

Can help with placement preservation

Will cause disruptions

Can cause a child to run away

Will make the birth families mad

3. When birth parents are involved from the beginning, disruptions goes down and reunification goes up.

True

False

4. Remembering a child’s culture will:

Help the child feel more comfortable and at home

Upset a birth parent

Makes the child feel like an outsider

All choices are correct

5. Helping the child remember where he or she came from will:

All choices are correct

Keep the child familiar with their culture

Helps them to feel a part of their family and not separated

Help the child to see you wanting their family to reunify

6. When a teen is first removed from their home, why might there be some acting out even if they know they need to be removed?

All choices are correct

They are being removed from their normal

They have learned to survive in their conditions

They love their birth parents

7. A teen that is placed in your home may have triggers such as

All choices are correct

Smells

Unfamiliar things

Recognizable situations

8. ___________ is one of the three stages of a birth family.

All choices are correct

Shock

Protest

Adjustment

9. What is one of the three strategies discussed that you can use to stay engaged?

Just do it

Get it done

Stay engaged

All choices are correct

10. In the protest stage of removal, what do birth families feel most often?

Disbelief

Fear

Sadness

Anger

Count Me In - To Be Inspired: Through The Eyes Of A Foster Youth Alumni (CA)

1. Children in foster care forget who their birth families are, and just move on with life.

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Having a relationship or bond with birth families

3. When birth parents are involved from the beginning, disruptions goes down and reunification goes up.

4. Remembering a child’s culture will:

5. Helping the child remember where he or she came from will:

6. When a teen is first removed from their home, why might there be some acting out even if they know they need to be removed?

7. A teen that is placed in your home may have triggers such as

8. ___________ is one of the three stages of a birth family.

9. What is one of the three strategies discussed that you can use to stay engaged?

10. In the protest stage of removal, what do birth families feel most often?