Every year, child welfare agencies across the country are increasing their emphasis on kinship care, a form of foster care that gives placement preference to relative caregivers instead of traditional foster parents who are strangers to the children placed with them. Widely recognized as the better ...
This has been associated with their increased risk of having special needs, particularly reactive attachment disorder which results from severe disruptions in early relationships. Child welfare agencies report inadequate knowledge of specific placement predictors and assessment measures, although research has ...
to Gerri Robinson and Yvonne Gilchrist of Baltimore City Department of Social Services; and to Carlyse Giddens and Laura Miles of Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families; and to case workers, foster families, birth families, and children at both agencies.References...
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For the faint of heart, foster parenting may not be for you because the one thing you must keep in mind is the goal of the foster care program is to always return the child to parent(s). According to the State of Delaware’s Department Services for Children Youth and their Family (DSC...
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agencies are often automatically assigned as the representative payee for foster children. On the other hand, child welfare agencies and advocates argue that if states were not able to use benefits to pay for a child's foster care, they would stop screening children to determine their eligibility...
difference between a youth in foster care being appropriately treated with medications or not. The report also stresses the need for youth-serving organizations and state agencies to work together, and for more informed decision-making and appropriate medication monitoring for youth in foster care. ...
, President Bush signed into law the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, which requires state child welfare agencies and Medicaid to provide ongoing oversight and coordination of medical and mental health services, including psychotropic medications, for youth in foster care. ...