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Educational Services for Children in Foster Care
Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2006ABSTRACT Most literature on the education of foster youth focuses on their individual outcomes and characteristics. A small body of literature documents a lack of collaboration between the child welfare and education systems. This study explores commonalities and differences in perspectives between child welfare and education system stakeholders.
Susan Stone, Amy D'Andrade
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Patterns of foster care service delivery
Children and Youth Services Review, 2005Abstract This study explored direct client services provided by one foster care program. A cohort of 44 families was followed for up to 36 months by monitoring the frequency of eight service activity categories (i.e., service planning, therapy, family visits, court hearings, foster child contacts, foster parent contacts, family of origin contacts ...
Yvonne A. Unrau, Michael A. Wells
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Interorganizational disparities in foster care service provision
Children and Youth Services Review, 2009Abstract Performance contracting and managed care have recently migrated from the behavioral and physical health care sector into child welfare, and are being introduced under the premise that the financial incentives embedded in market-based models will motivate agencies and their workers to improve the cost-effectiveness and quality of care to ...
Bowen McBeath, William Meezan
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Foster Care and Social Services
The Journal of Psychiatry & Law, 2008Social workers and social service agencies are, or should be, intimately involved with children in foster care and those who choose to care for them. There are situations, however, where the relationship fails, with potentially disastrous results for the children.
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Children and Youth Services Review, 2018
Abstract Foster youth experience higher rates of mental health disorders and receive higher rates of mental health services in comparison to the general population. Yet, upon foster care exit, mental health service use drastically declines. Little is known as to the reasons for mental health service decline after foster care exit.
Margarita Villagrana +3 more
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Abstract Foster youth experience higher rates of mental health disorders and receive higher rates of mental health services in comparison to the general population. Yet, upon foster care exit, mental health service use drastically declines. Little is known as to the reasons for mental health service decline after foster care exit.
Margarita Villagrana +3 more
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Developmental Services for Young Children in Foster Care
Journal of Social Service Research, 2006High rates of developmental delay in children in foster care make it important for the foster care system to provide early identification of developmental issues and facilitate intervention. This investigation examined the degree to which child welfare agencies encourage policies to assess children for developmental delay and link children to ...
Aubyn C. Stahmer +4 more
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Are services to prevent foster care effective?
Children and Youth Services Review, 1981The prevention of foster care became an important issue for child welfare services during the 1970s. Two main types of prevention models have emerged: crisis intervention programs intended to prevent imminent placement and intensive service programs designed to avert those crisis situations that precipitate placement.
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Market-Based Disparities in Foster Care Service Provision
Research on Social Work Practice, 2007Objective : This study examines in-agency and out-of-agency service provision to a sample of 243 foster children and their families. Method : Data come from a longitudinal study of 243 foster children and families served by non-profit agencies that were operating under either a performance-based, managed care purchase-of-service contract or a fee-for ...
Bowen McBeath, William Meezan
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Life After Foster Care: Services and Policies for Former Foster Youth
The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 1999This 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.
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Improving the Delivery of Specialized Foster Care Services
Social Casework, 1979Children in specialized foster care need broadly based, empathetic, and competent help. Yet, service delivery agents assigned to these children are often inexperienced, easily frustrated, and transient. A comprehensive attempt to deal with the workers' problems could yield better care for those whose needs these workers try to meet.
Thomas H. Russell, Jayne M. Silberman
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