Employ Family Treatment Courts to Cut Number of Children in Foster Care

Outline
Thesis
Employ Family Treatment Courts to Cut Number of Children in Foster Care
Introduction
Role of the family treatment courts in reducing children in a foster care home
The Significance of the Topic
The aim of the thesis is to establish if the use of family treatment courts in cutting the number of children in a foster home due to parental drug abuse would be effective
Body
Other Causes of Children Entering the Foster Care System
Parental divorce and parental policy-making strategies
Maltreatment of children and less concern about the well-being of the children
Use of Family Treatment Courts to Reduce Children in Foster Care Systems
Family treatment courts are the ones that help in reducing the entries into foster homes
They offer services to addicted parents such as disorder treatment, mental health services and provide judicial follow-ups on the parents who are addicted.
Those who are concerned with rehabilitation, with the drug courts included should have appropriate interventions to enhance the recovery processes.
They ensure the addicted parent stay as long they will take to recover in the treatment plans
Ensure parents who are reformed are united with their children who are in foster care
They take the shortest time possible to recover parents hence their children take to spend less time in the foster care system
Level of Correction
There should be juvenile correctional facilities.
For a successful intervention, they should focus on changing the children’s behavior.

Having the right environment in the correctional facilities also is likely to enable the offenders to reform from their behaviors.
The court should allow the children to interact with their families and this can enhance their reformation and improve reunion with their parents (Henderson, 2005).
Preventing Re-entry into Foster Care
Parents and other relevant agencies should give those children who have left foster care enough support to prevent them from reentering the foster homes
Re-entering the foster care system comes as a result of lack of enough parental care, and social support to the children.
The administrators and the courts’ system should also make sure those children’s interests are put into consideration.
Conclusion
Parental substance abuse has become prevalent
Family treatment courts have been formed to address the parental substance abuse and improve the child welfare services.
This has significantly reduced the number of children in foster homes.