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Foster Care, Kinship Care, and the Transition to Adulthood: Do Child Welfare System Processes Explain Differences in Outcomes?

open access: yesChildren and youth services review, 2023
Despite longstanding policy preferences favoring kinship care placements over non-relative family foster care placements, research findings on the benefits of kinship care vary by measurement, assessed outcome, follow-up period, and other study design ...
Kierra M. P. Sattler   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The well-being of children in kinship foster care.

open access: yes, 1996
The well-being of children in kinship foster ...
Sandra Joy. Altshuler (7988255)
core   +5 more sources

Assessment in Kinship Foster Care: A New Tool to Evaluate the Strengths and Weaknesses

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2014
Placement in kinship family has existed informally throughout time. There are many countries in which kinship family care is the most common measure used for child protection. However, it is a subject of continuous debate. One of the major issues is that
Nuria Fuentes-Peláez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patience with foster children as a major problem for grandparents in the role of kinship carers aged 60 + and the psychosocial determinants of this deficit

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2023
Kinship care represents the most prevalent form of foster care in Poland. Most commonly, the role of kinship carers is taken on by grandparents, who may struggle with various problems, needs and deficits in this role.
Marta Giezek   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

PREPAREDNESS FOR EMANCIPATION OF YOUTH LEAVING ALTERNATIVE CARE IN SERBIA

open access: yesInternational Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2018
The process of preparing young people for leaving alternative care is not sufficiently researched in Serbia. In order to define what support is necessary for their successful emancipation, this study of 150 young people in care aims to analyse both their
Anita Burgund Isakov, Jasna Hrnčić
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship Care for the Safety, Permanency, and Well‐being of Children Removed from the Home for Maltreatment

open access: yesCampbell 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
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship foster care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Bachelor i barnevern BSV5-300 Fakultet for helse og sosialvitenskap Innleveringsdato 19.05.2021bsDuring the course of this text, we examine the recent change in foster care legislation that says child social services have an obligatory duty to search ...
Sterner, Carl Jakob Lis
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Data on children reentering foster care from kinship guardianship

open access: yesData in Brief, 2018
This article describes a dataset containing information on children exiting to kinship guardianship in California between 2003 and 2010 (N = 18,831). Children and young people in the sample were followed for up to fourteen years.
Arno Parolini   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kinship Care for the Safety, Permanency, and Well‐being of Children Removed from the Home for Maltreatment: A Systematic Review

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
This Campbell systematic review examines whether kinship care is more effective than foster care in ensuring the safety, permanency and wellbeing of children removed from their home for maltreatment.
Marc Winokur   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on stress and Access to Services for Licensed and Kinship Caregivers and Youth in Foster Care

open access: yesChild and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2022
Children in foster care in the United States face unique challenges related to access to health and education services. With the COVID-19 pandemic, many of those services were temporarily disrupted, adding burden to an already strained system.
Sarah J. Beal   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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