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Specialist foster care for traumatised young people with challenging behaviour: Appraising joined up service provision [PDF]
, 2005 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.It is recognised that looked after young people with a history of trauma, offending, emotional, behavioural and educational difficulties often face a high ...
Brady, Lynn
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AN ANALYSIS OF, AND DIFFERENT APPROACH TO, CHALLENGES IN FOSTER CARE PRACTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA
Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2013 Foster care is perceived to be the best and most widely applied form of alternative care for children besides their maternal home, because it most often occurs within the family context and is supposed to offer safety and protection to children.
Annelie Böning, Sandra Ferreira
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Enhancing Foster Care Home NGO Sustainability via Social Franchising
Management, 2020 Research Question: This paper investigates how the social franchising approach may enhance the sustainability and capability of Foster Home NGOs in the Global South.
Catherine T. Kwantes +3 more
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How Do People Become Foster Carers in Portugal? The Process of Building the Motivation
Social Sciences, 2019 Act no. 142/2015 highlights the importance of children out-of-home being placed in a family context. However, foster care continues to be an almost absent component in the Portuguese childcare system.
Elisete Diogo, Francisco Branco
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Being a Foster Family in Portugal—Motivations and Experiences
Societies, 2017 Foster care is an almost absent component in the child care system and scientific research conducted in Portugal foster comprises 3.2%1 of out-of-home care in Portugal. This research aims to contribute to a deeper visibility of the care phenomena, giving
Elisete Diogo, Francisco Branco
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What is work? Insights from the evolution of state foster care [PDF]
, 2013 This article focuses on state foster care as a case study in the (re)configuration and negotiation of boundaries between work and non-work. Foster care can be seen as occupying a liminal position between the domains of ‘work’ and ‘family’, requiring ...
Kirton, Derek
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The Racial Origins of Foster Home Care
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2023 AbstractBlack family values and behavior have long been at the center of policy solutions to intergenerational poverty. But in the early twentieth century, the Black family took on paradoxical significance as a solution to child poverty and neglect through the foster family. This was part of a broad realignment in child protection that upheld the “Home”
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A comparison of kinship foster homes and foster family homes: Implications for kinship foster care as family preservation [PDF]
Children and Youth Services Review, 1994 Abstract In recent years, child welfare caseloads have expanded rapidly, and increasing numbers of children have been placed with kin. Much of the current discussion surrounding kinship foster care stems from its rapid growth and the paucity of information about the placement type compared to our knowledge of other forms of foster care.
Berrick, Jill Duerr +2 more
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Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2009 Child abuse and neglect are common problems across the world that result in negative consequences for children, families and communities. Children who have been abused or neglected are often removed from the home and placed in residential care or with ...
Marc Winokur +2 more
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Institutional support in alternative care: Foster care and COVID-19 pandemics [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2022 The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated new challenges in the work of social welfare institutions, particularly in the area of providing support in alternative forms of care, such as foster care.
Horvat Gordana +2 more
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