Risk Factors
Risk factors play a part in a child’s emotional development making recreation, enrichment and educational programs even more important. OCF respects the privacy of its applicants; we have not conducted any study but know that at least some of these factors exist for more than a few our families.
· Poverty or financial problems
· Single parent homes – issues of divorce, separation, loss from death, or incarceration of a parent
· Foster home placement
· Substance abuse
· Physical and/or emotional disability
· Family illness
· Violence in the family – abuse and neglect
· Frequent or multiple moves
· Sibling crises
· Poverty or financial problems
· Single parent homes – issues of divorce, separation, loss from death, or incarceration of a parent
· Foster home placement
· Substance abuse
· Physical and/or emotional disability
· Family illness
· Violence in the family – abuse and neglect
· Frequent or multiple moves
· Sibling crises