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AN OUTCOME EVALUATION OF A YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

open access: yesSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2012
The Child Care Act of South Africa (1983) requires children who are in children’s homes to leave these places of care once they reach 18 years of age.
James F Maposa, Joha Louw-Potgieter
doaj   +1 more source

A Rigorous Evaluation of Family Finding in North Carolina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Child Trends evaluated Family Finding services in nine North Carolina counties through a rigorous impact evaluation and an accompanying process study. The impact evaluation involved random assignment of eligible children to a treatment or control group ...
Amy McKlindon   +4 more
core  

Long‐Term Opioids in Gout: A Matched Cohort Study From the Veterans Health Administration

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Though used frequently to treat flare, risk of long‐term opioid exposure in gout has not been well defined. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that people with gout are more likely than individuals without gout to be prescribed long‐term opioids over time.
Lindsay N. Helget   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can we plan services for children in foster care? Or do we just have to cope with what comes through the door?

open access: yesSocial Work and Society, 2017
To what extent is it possible to plan ahead for children coming into care? How can we ensure that there are enough foster homes available for new entrants and that the range of facilities is sufficiently wide to meet all of their different needs?
Roger Bullock
doaj   +2 more sources

Foster Carers’ Perspective on Financial Issues When Young People Leave Care

open access: yesSocial Inclusion
Foster care can be defined as a professional assignment that emphasises the importance of family‐like relationships. The paradox in foster care lies in the tension between the professional perspective, where remuneration is provided for the care given ...
Ingrid Höjer, Inger Oterholm
doaj   +1 more source

Foster Care in Missouri [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In 2001, approximately 805,000 children in the United States were in foster care. The majority of children entering foster care have experienced prolonged and repeated abuse and neglect.
Brookes, Sheila J. (Sheila Joyce), 1963-   +1 more
core  

Evaluation of integrated care services in Catalonia: population-based and service-based real-life deployment protocols

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
BackgroundComprehensive assessment of integrated care deployment constitutes a major challenge to ensure quality, sustainability and transferability of both healthcare policies and services in the transition toward a coordinated service delivery scenario.
E. Baltaxe   +31 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preferences for post‐traumatic osteoarthritis prevention strategies in individuals with anterior cruciate ligament injury

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objectives There is growing interest in evaluating new strategies to delay or prevent post‐traumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in individuals who have sustained anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This study sought to determine characteristics of potential treatments that are acceptable to patients with ACL injury.
Kevin Kennedy   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putting Families First: How the Opioid Epidemic is Affecting Children and Families, and the Child Welfare Policy Options to Address It [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
: Opioids and Child Welfare Across the country, placements in foster care are rising. In 2016, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that 273,539 children in the U.S. entered foster care.
American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Assessment of Skin in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis Using High‐Frequency Ultrasound and Shear Wave Elastography: A Comparative Study With Histology, Molecular, and Clinical Parameters

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Ultrasound (US) has been proposed as a potential tool for assessing skin fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, a large‐scale comparison of US‐based assessment with histologic markers of skin fibrosis has not been reported. We evaluated US‐based skin assessments for their face validity (differentiation between involved SSc and healthy
Ruhani Desai   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

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