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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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Implications of Foster Care on Attachment: A Literature Review
The Family Journal, 2019This article provides a review of the literature in attachment theory, outcomes of being in foster care, impacts of trauma, and long-term attachment outcomes of foster care alumni.
Megan L Miranda +2 more
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Transition to adult life of young people leaving foster care: A qualitative systematic review
Children and youth services review, 2018The transition to adult life of looked-after young people depends on a combination and interaction of multiple contributing factors such as past experiences, challenges faced by the young people in their current life situation, the support they have ...
A. Häggman-Laitila +2 more
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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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‘Skills Protect’: Towards a Professional Foster Care Service
Adoption & Fostering, 2003Almost two-thirds of children and young people looked after by local authorities in England are placed in foster care. Recent studies suggest that the looked after population is significantly different from the general child and young people population in terms of mental and physical health and educational attainment.
Barbara Hutchinson +2 more
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Children in foster care: Mental health, service use and costs
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006To assess the prevalence of mental health problems in children in foster care, their families' use of services and the associated costs.Information on mental health problems, service use and costs was collected, by postal questionnaires and home interviews, on 182 children, their foster carers and teachers from 17 local authorities in Central Scotland ...
Minnis, H +4 more
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Essential Case Management Services for Young Children in Foster Care
Community Mental Health Journal, 1999A growing number of children in the United States are being placed into foster care. Past studies indicate that effective case manager interventions have helped foster families with a variety of different problems. This study enrolled a randomly selected sample of 130 children under age four who had been newly placed into foster care.
C, Zlotnick, D, Kronstadt, L, Klee
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Kinship foster care: Placement, service, and outcome issues
Children and Youth Services Review, 1994Abstract Kinship foster care is now being debated. Issues have emerged about the cost of this care, the suitability of the kinship home, and agency supervision. Little data exist, however, about the functioning of minors in kinship foster care. Data from a Los Angeles County study of 990 adolescents in foster family care are used to compare 352 ...
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Assesment in Foster Care Services
2015Experiences gained through clinical work is very effective in determining key factors to improve foster care services. These practices point out the importance of professional assessment of the family and child before the placement and follow-up after the placement.
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