Ashley Conti: : Rochester Institute of Technology
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1209 Boylston St Apt 52, Boston, MA 02215, USA |
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This is my senior project for my photo class at RIT on hard to place foster children.
Most families are excited to bring a new member into their household, but other times a mother, or family, is unable to provide for and keep that child. For many different reasons children are given up, abandoned, abused, or neglected and put into “the system’. According to the most current Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System Report (AFCARS), released in January 2008, approximately 510,000 children in the U.S.A. are in foster care as of September 2006. Of those children, six percent, or 30, 949 kids, are 14 years old. Cody is one of these kids.
Cody is a very energetic 14 year old who enjoys many of the things that other 14 year olds do; such as playing video games, going outside, playing and watching sports and listening to music. But unlike most 14 year olds, Cody is in a dorm with either other dormers. This isn’t like summer camp this is his home. Unlike most kids, he doesn’t have a family. He doesn’t have a place where he can really call home. Home to him is a residential treatment facility where he eats, drinks, sleeps and goes to school. He has very little privacy, bedroom doors much be open at all times and t only the dormers assigned to that room is allowed in it. Most of the dormers here are dealing with multiple issues such as family instability, emotional trauma, mental health, and complex psychiatric and behavioral issues. Cody is only one of the numerous children in foster care who are “hard to place”.
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63 days ago |
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9.13.2008 (Senior Member) |
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"Sitting"
Most of the time Cody sits alone and keeps to himself. Although he enjoys the company of his dorm ma... |
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"Eating"
Like many of the other kids at the dorms, Cody has his tics. He will occasionally stop and make a fa... |
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"Pointing"
"He just farted," said Cody about one of his dorm mates. During meals all the kids have a ... |
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"Watching"
Cody grabs some things from his room, as a staff worker reads a magazine and keeps an eye on him. Ev... |
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"Coloring"
After Cody does his chores he enjoys coloring in his coloring books. It's one of his favorite things... |
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"Helping"
With the help of Bernard, right, Cody fills up the container to mop the floors. He does this for ext... |
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"Mopping"
Cody is very efficient with doing extra chores. The tone of doing chores is hurry up; get them done,... |
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"Playing"
Unlike most 14 year olds, Cody plays with his cars during lesiure time. All his cars need to be in a... |
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"Gaming"
"Oh man I almost had one," said Cody about a fishing game he was playing. The game system ... |
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"Leaving"
Whenever he is allowed to Cody is listening to music and signing along to it. His favorite kinds of ... |
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