Problems in society such as poverty, homelessness, unemployment, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, educational inequality, Family and community violence and racism can affect families and impact the well-being of children and the system itself (Chipungu and Goodley, pp. 76, 2004) There is often an inconsistency between the services provided to children and families in foster care and what they actually need. An example given by Chipungu and Goodley (2004) was offering training and counseling to birth parents when services such as housing assistance and child care are most needed but unavailable (pp. 79). The first efforts to address the problem of child welfare were made when Charles Loring Brace, founder of the Children's Aid Society, established boarding houses and industrial schools, to care for neglected, orphaned, and abandoned children and provide them with shelter and moral education. However, many children were not actually orphaned or neglected, they were simply poor (Warren, 1998). The Children's Aid Society in 1854 developed the Orphan Train program, a predecessor to foster care. Charles Loring Brace believed that this would give children a chance at a good life by giving them the opportunity to live with “morally upright farm families” (Warren,