Why do children need foster care?
Children enter foster care for one or more of the following reasons: physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect (i.e. malnourishment, environmental conditions, disregard to vital medical care, etc.) Under certain circumstances biological parents are mentally/physically disabled to the extent that they are unable to adequately provide for their children. Another reason is called “risk of harm.” These are situations where it is determined that a child would be at serious risk of being harmed if they were to continue living with their biological parents (i.e. drug exposed, substance abuse or history of having children in the system for very serious abuse/neglect.) Children placed with Kornerstone families almost always come into foster care with a combination of these problems. The purpose of the Kornerstone foster care program is to provide quality care in a licensed family setting for children and adolescents who cannot remain with their birth family because of a crisis in the family. A
