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Provides information on tracking students who are in a Foster Care setting in the state of Kentucky.
State and local agencies are unable to suitably supervise foster homes or arrange adoptions. Statistics show that many children will spend most of their childhood and teenage years in the foster care system, which has shown to leave emotional scars on the child. Today, Child Welfare groups are ...
In addition, the Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (SACWIS) is a database used by protective services agencies to hold the official case records of children in care. Many states hold health data in their SACWIS records. In order for these datasets to be useful, each of ...
These findings suggest that older age and long-term foster care in general may be risk factors for obesity. Child welfare agencies and health care providers need to work together to train caregivers with children in long-term foster care in obesity treatment interventions and obesity prevention ...
Trend data are routinely produced by foster care agencies. We contend, however, that these data, which tend to be annualized, remove operationally useful information from conversations about how systems work and why we see the population changes we see. We want to add that lost information back...
Societies 2017, 7, 37; doi:10.3390/soc7040037 www.mdpi.com/journal/societies Societies 2017, 7, 37 2 of 14 results from the relative ignorance of foster care in Portuguese society, either by the absence of its promotion by the public agencies or by the civil society, or the lack of ...