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Services according to mental health needs for youth in foster care? – A multi-informant study
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Foster children have a high risk of mental disorders. This has contributed to increased international attention to service utilization for youth in foster care.
Marit Larsen +4 more
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Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2017 The high demand for substitute care in South Africa, and in particular foster care, poses challenges for statutory social workers in rendering developmental social services.
Dhludhlu, Sandile , Lombard, Antoinette
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Perspectives of Foster-Care Providers, Service Providers, and Judges Regarding Privatized Foster-Care Services [PDF]
Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 2006 This qualitative study examined perceptions of foster-care providers, service providers, and juvenile-court judges regarding privatized foster-care services in Kansas. Kansas was the first state to privatize all foster care, adoption, and family-preservation services.
Humphrey, Kristen R. +2 more
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Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2023 Decisions made by social workers play a crucial role in foster care. Despite the challenging conditions under which social workers work in South Africa, they continue to make decisions to place children in foster care.
Pathamavathy Naicker, Petro Botha
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Foster care re-entry: Exploring the role of foster care characteristics, in-home child welfare services and cross-sector services [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, 2012 This study seeks to advance our understanding of how modifiable and non-modifiable factors may impact the likelihood of re-entry into foster care. Children who entered foster care for the first time following at least one report of maltreatment and were then reunified were followed from exit to re-entry, age 18 or the end of the study period using ...
Sangmoo, Lee +2 more
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Life After Foster Care: Services and Policies for Former Foster Youth
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 1999 This article argues that interventions targeted to the needs of emancipated foster youth can prevent them from dependency, homelessness, and incarceration. It presents a profile of emancipated foster youth; focuses on their service needs; and, describes three program models addressing these.
M. Stoner
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Developmental outcomes across foster care, adoption, and child welfare services: a mini review [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryChildren entering foster care (FC), adoption, or child welfare services (CWS) frequently experience early adversity, placing them at increased risk across multiple developmental domains.
Mireia Solerdelcoll +9 more
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Foster care services: a consumer perspective
, 1984 This thesis is designed to present the various perceptions, feelings and experiences of the people involved in the foster care system. Its main purpose is to evaluate foster care services through a consumer's perspective, to show how the consumers, including foster children, foster parents, or natural parents have common perceptions of the system.
Monique Gibbens-Tenneriello
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 BackgroundChildren placed in foster care represent a vulnerable and distressed group that requires a high level of care. However, good training programs designed to address specific problems presented in specialized foster care are not easily accessible ...
Pravin Israel +6 more
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JAMA Network Open, 2022 Key Points Question Are state Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) policy options associated with rates of Child Protective Services involvement and use of foster care services in the US? Findings This cohort study including all 50 states and
Michelle Johnson‐Motoyama +8 more
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