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Provides information on tracking students who are in a Foster Care setting in the state of Kentucky.
Child welfare experts stress the importance of strategic recruitment for foster and adoptive parents. While states and private foster care agencies cannot control many of the variables that result in foster parent shortages, they can control how they approach recruitment and retention of local foster a...
Findings from this exploratory study suggests that the combination of Illinois’ managed care funding strategies‚ decreased funding for private child welfare agencies‚ and placement and permanency policies create pressure on private agency staff to make service decisions prioritizing the agency’s ...
In the case of foster parents, who better to understand the complicated foster care system, the unique needs of the children and the emotional roller coaster of parenting them than those who have been through it themselves. That’s why foster care agencies throughout the country hold meetings ...
In many states, young people in foster care are not receiving their rightful survivor or disability benefits, because state agencies are applying for the benefits themselves without giving notice to the child or his or her relatives.
Data from a new demonstration project in New Jersey illustrate various problems in providing and evaluating preventive services to families referred to protective service agencies. Implications of the findings for prevention programs and policies are discussed, and a new direction focused on truly early ...
The following are descriptions of gay-friendly adoption & foster care agencies and businesses that can assist you in building or nurturing your family.ADOPTION STAR www.adoptionstar.com Adoption STAR (Support, Training, Advocacy & Resources) is a compassionate and unique agency. We are New York ...
Alex focuses his practice on providing transactional and regulatory counseling for a variety of clients in the healthcare and life sciences industry, including health systems, nursing homes, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, assisted living facilities, hospices, home health agencies, physician groups...
A key provision of ASFA mandated that child welfare agencies file for termination of parental rights (TPR) when a child has been in care for 15 of 22 months, unless there are compelling circumstances such that TPR would not be in the child's best interests. TPR severs the legal parent-...