Design Thinking Process: e3

Discovery Phase-Checklist
Part 2
Due: October 21, 2019

Work with your design thinking team to take notes about each part of the Design Thinking
Process that you complete together. After you feel that you have fully explored each step of
the three parts listed, change the checkbox to a check mark. Return to and revise each part as
needed.

Conduct the Research (Gathering Inspiration) – Discovery Phase Part 2

❏Immerse yourself in context

❏Learn from groups
❏Learn from experts
❏Learn from peers observing peers
❏Learn from people’s self documentation
❏Seek inspiration in new places
❏KEEP AN OPEN MIND!!
Research Findings:

FROM EXPERTS
-There are certainly not enough foster homes to support the amount of foster children
-Some social workers do up to ten investigations on foster homes in a month
-Foster children are being moved constantly making their condition even more uneasy
-If it was investigated and proven that foster children are facing abuse or neglect at the foster home,
the foster children will be removed from the place
-Foster parents will not be able to adopt foster children if they have an abuse or neglect record.
-One main problem foster children face is new environments, unfamiliar people and surroundings.
-Background checks are made on all future foster parents
-As students, we could decrease abuse and neglect by reporting it to an adult if we see any signs
-We can talk to people around us to make more people aware of this problem
-If foster parents are found and proven mistreating foster children, their license may be suspended
-Some foster children lie about mistreatment causing unneeded investigation
-housing is a huge problem for aged out foster children
-funding is essential for foster care system improvement
-San Diego’s foster care system is actually well funded and many foster children are transferred
here for better services
-The root of the problem is on the biological parents or guardians
-Many foster children are in great need of love from their parents since in the end they are still a
family
-Foster children are in depression
-Many foster teenagers get pregnant in a short age.

Ideas for product/solution:

- make something that could remind foster children of their home
- Provide preventive methods for parents
-provide parental classes for parents in regions that have a high risk of abuse or neglect
- Provide job opportunities for foster children to help them sustain themselves
- Gather volunteer counselors
- Better background checks on unfit foster parents
- Guid kids who age out of the foster care system so they don't take the wrong path.
- Keep siblings together as much as possible
- Ways to teach foster children how to get to college and the process.
- Provide better education for foster children.
- More free opportunities for foster children
- Workshops of mental health
- Mental health and support
- Sports clubs or extracurricular activities

FROM END-USERS
Jesus
Group homes
- They are good they dont have either enough money or clothing to go around they asept
donations
- He was in group home, sometimes they foster parents are good
- Somo parents adopt
He got adopted
There was not abuse
It is irritating if u move place to place
They cant support to stay in the same family
It feels afoul
Because you dont know the place of your family
You learn how to manage
Lower than 13 they addopted
Only 15-30% under 13 years old they are addopted

Some people want to go back to their families

Some are forced to leave the family those are the main one

His dad abbuse of him treating him bad

He talked to foster people care system(social workers )
If your parents can’t support you then you go to foster care system
Foster group homes and group homes
They are connected because the people are volunterry people to help a kid
Since 2019- december 13 he was at the hospital until january to june-july and after that he went to a
group home
He went to the 3 different groups
They have really nice people

Foster care
Sometimes they addopt you depends on the group
Three levels to be adopted
2-3 years with the same family

One of the kids was with their family ssince4-12 years old
- His foster care was in sd
- What it needs to be improved better work for social worker
- He learn how to control those emotions
- How to control the energy
- He wants social workers that help you with how to control emotions (emotionnaly and
energetic)
- Level 1 you get paid for the tours
- Depends on the family 8 dlls for level 2 tour also a lot of points to pass of level
- 12 for level 3
- They moved up by learning how to control your energy.
- He learned how to control him self
- There is a grouning system
- They were flash backs where the coudnt handle it
- The hardest was to control emotions and energy
- He felt like people should make a level higher because peopl told the he can’t
- They sleep in rooms or parents or cauch
- He slept in the bed
- It was a oky experience because he learned how to control his emotions
- The foster group home is when foster are living
- -foster hoe with a group of kids with some stuff
- A machine to help to calm down or distric
- It did help me because without them they would not be with the family he is today
- Idea