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//The Role of Schools in Supporting Children in Foster Care//. (2010). Retrieved May 15, 2012, from National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention website: []

> -Becoming homeless > -Moving from one home to another > -Parental substance abuse > -Lack of clean clothes to wear > -The parent or child’s desire to hide the physical marks of child abuse >
 * 1) Once removed from their biological homes, youth may change foster care placements multiple times.
 * 2) When teenagers are placed into foster care, the placement brings a new community and a different culture where they must now learn to navigate.
 * 3) Changing schools is a disruptive process for any child, but especially for these children because of the many losses they have already suffered (Biological families, their homes, their friends, neighbors, and teachers, possibly even their pets and their favorite toys)
 * 4) Foster care placement cause some teenagers to miss many days or months in school for a number of reasons: -Eviction of the biological family
 * 1) Teenagers find it difficult to to form relationships with school staff who could support their academic success.
 * 2) Each placement brings a new community and a different culture, which these youth must now learn to navigate.
 * 3) Organizational bureaucracy and differing cultures among systems often create barriers that interfere significantly with the child’s education (e.g., delays in sending school or health records, and not allowing immediate enrollment in a new school because of this; not providing information about supplemental services the child needs).
 * 4) When a child experiences abuse or neglect that is substantiated by an investigative agency, long-term parental illness, or incarceration of a parent, or when a parent voluntarily relinquishes his or her parental rights, the state child welfare agency recommends that the child either be removed from the home or remain in the home with support services
 * 5) When there is ineffective communication between all agencies, or confusion among agencies’ roles, a child’s best interests may not be served.
 * 6) The primary objective of the foster care system is to provide short-term care with the goal of family reunification.
 * 7) Placement in foster care generally means placement in a new school.
 * 8) After they are removed from their biological homes, youth may change foster care placements multiple times.
 * 9) Despite the pain, hardship, and disruption of their early lives, many foster youth are unbelievably resilient individuals.
 * 10) Unfortunately, not all youth have the stability and opportunities afforded to children with intact families.
 * 11) Children in foster care also suffer from the very systems that are supposed to help them.