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    The document discusses a foster care organization that aims to place children from unsafe environments into surrogate family settings. It examines the organization's goal of providing for children's well-being, considers definitions of responsibilities and acceptable failure rates, and looks at improving the system by analyzing where failures occur and how aggressively they are addressed. The document questions if children may be left behind and who is responsible for ensuring they are cared for.

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    The document discusses a foster care organization that aims to place children from unsafe environments into surrogate family settings. It examines the organization's goal of providing for children's well-being, considers definitions of responsibilities and acceptable failure rates, and looks at improving the system by analyzing where failures occur and how aggressively they are addressed. The document questions if children may be left behind and who is responsible for ensuring they are cared for.

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    Initial Assessment

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    The document discusses a foster care organization that aims to place children from unsafe environments into surrogate family settings. It examines the organization's goal of providing for children's well-being, considers definitions of responsibilities and acceptable failure rates, and looks at improving the system by analyzing where failures occur and how aggressively they are addressed. The document questions if children may be left behind and who is responsible for ensuring they are cared for.

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    How Complicated Can it Be?

    An Outsiders Assumptions
    Problem/Need:
    Some children
    need to be
    removed from
    their unsafe
    environments

    A Solution:
    Foster Care
    Organization

    Goal/Mission/Purpose & Scope: place underage


    children into a surrogate family setting an
    environment that provides everything a child needs to
    grow up happy and healthy
    Definitions: responsibility, authority, controls,
    successes, failures , acceptable failure rates

    Success rates
    Failure rates

    Improvements:
    What
    should/will be
    done about the
    failures?

    Measurement:
    Is the
    organization
    achieving?

    Analysis:
    Where are the
    failures
    occurring?

    Failures

    Definition of failures within the Foster Care Organization


    Severities of the various failures
    Tolerance or acceptable failure rates of the various failures
    Controls to prevent the various failures
    Mitigation plans for the various failures

    Are CHILDREN being left behind by


    the system?
    How aggressively are failures
    being pursued?
    Who is responsible?
    WHO CARES?

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