Perceptions of the Foster Care System Question Title * 1. Who are you? (choose one that best describes you) Social Worker Child Protective Servcies (CPS) or Department for Children and Families (DCF) Employee (non leadership) Child Protective Servcies (CPS) or Department for Children and Families (DCF) Employee (CEO, COO, Pres., VP, or equiv.) Judicial or Legal (i.e. attorney, judge, GAL) Biological Parent (child removed from your home) Foster Parent (including former) Foster Child (including former) Education Professional (i.e. teacher, princ., counselor) Politician Volunteer Advocate (i.e. CASA) Biological Family (non parent - child removed from home) Grandparent (grandchild living with you) Media Adoptive Family Law Enforcement Contractor (if system is privatized - i.e. KVC or St. Francis) General Population (no affiliation with foster care) Other Organization Affiliated with Foster Care (i.e. Casey Families) OK Question Title * 2. From your perspective, what do you feel the role and mission of the foster care system should be? OK Question Title * 3. From your perspective, do you feel as though the foster care system is working? Please explain why or why not. OK Question Title * 4. From your perspective, what are the strengths of the foster care system? OK Question Title * 5. From your perspective, what are the major challenges in the foster care system? OK Question Title * 6. From your perspective, what misconceptions do people have about the foster care system? OK Question Title * 7. If you had a magic wand and were in charge of the foster care system, what would you do? (i.e. think revolutionary and radical paradigm-shifting ideas) OK Question Title * 8. From your perspective, what changes and/or improvements would you make in the foster care system (both short-term and long-term)? OK Question Title * 9. What approaches from other systems and/or fields would (or might) work in foster care? (i.e. systems such as prisons or schools and/or fields such as physics, engineering, biology, etc.) OK Question Title * 10. In its current state, is the foster care system working? (definition of working = does it do what is in the best interest of the child?) Yes No OK DONE