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Foster Care and Adoption in Connecticut
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Imagine you are a kid. How long could you wait for a family? As of March 26, 2006, 135 Connecticut children were waiting to be adopted. More than 6,000 Connecticut children remain in the child welfare system, growing up without the permanent, loving families they need and deserve.
a child. a family. a future. Foster Care and Adoption in Connecticut is a half-hour documentary focusing on the state of foster care and adoption in Connecticut.
While placing the issue in a larger social, historical and political context, a child. a family. a future. reveals the challenges as well as the triumphs of foster care and adoption in Connecticut. Viewers will meet some of the children, foster parents and adoptive parents, as well as social workers dedicated to forging families with permanence.
The documentary's highly personal stories help illustrate the common barriers, misconceptions, challenges and rewards involved in foster care and adoption. The process is complex, terminating parental rights is difficult and recruiting foster and adoptive parents is hard. But the documentary also highlights the positive by looking at promising efforts that are underway to improve foster care and adoption--including child welfare case management and financial incentives for parents that foster and adopt.
Connecticut's State Department of Children and Families assisted in arranging interviews with children who are currently placed with foster families or living in group homes. Fernando, a 10-year-old resident of a group home, expresses his wishes in the documentary, saying, "I want a family that takes care of me, that takes good care of me and that doesn't abuse me."
This new documentary tells the real life story of Connecticut's foster care system. You'll meet children waiting for a family, parents waiting for a child, and the childcare professionals who work to bring them together.
Format: DVD, Closed Captioned, Color, NTSC
Running Time: 27 minutes
Credits:
Writer/Producer: Paul Pfeffer
Associate Producer: Rick Sheiber
Original Music: Richard Einhorn
Executive Producer: Jay Whitsett
2006 Connecticut Public Television
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