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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 ...
Melissa Jonson-Reid, Brett Drake
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Child Protection and PracticeBackground: South Africa attempted to transform its rendering of foster care services by adopting a developmental approach. This mandated the shift from social welfare services to developmental welfare services.
Sipho Sibanda, Nozipho Theodorah Ngwabi
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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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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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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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Different sizes, similar challenges: Out of home care for youth in Germany and the Netherlands [PDF]
Psychosocial Intervention, 2014 While there is a large difference in the number of young inhabitants in the Netherlands and Germany, their child protection frameworks are quite similar. In both countries, child protection services are mainlyfocused on youth aged 0 to 18 and regulations
Annemiek T. Harder +4 more
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Foster care: extend services, save youth [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009 Re: “Health care for foster kids: Fix the system, save the child.” [1][1] We would like to draw attention to homelessness as an all-too-frequent outcome for youth in foster care. In a recent study of urban homeless youth, we found that 42.7% were once involved with a Children’s Aid Society ...
A. L. Goldstein, P. Erickson, C. Wekerle
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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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Exploration of Twin Separation and Adult Experiences: A Qualitative Study
Journal of Human Services, 2022 Many researchers have studied the long-term impact of nontwin sibling separation in foster care, but little is known about the separation of twins. In this study, we examined how one specific set of adult fraternal twin sisters interpreted their personal
Jocelyne Coan Bond, J. Kelly Coker
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