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One of the possibilities of non-institutional care for adults, elderly and disabled person is a foster care that is regulated by the Foster Care Law. Benefi ts of foster care over institutional care are family environment, shorter waiting lists for accommodation, lower cost of care, easier ...
In Oregon, adult foster care (AFC) homes, which are private residences where a live-in manager cares for one to five disabled residents, have been covered by Medicaid since 1981 and seem to offer a mainstream alternative to nursing homes. They house almost 6000 older people, two thirds of ...
Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often have complicated feelings about the loss of their birth parents - feelings which become all the more complex as they gain independence and become young adults, and which can endure throughout their lives. Common life events such as ...
The Child Welfare Outcomes Report to Congress for 2009–2012 data showed that states are less successful at finding a perma- nent home for disabled foster children (median 77.7%, range 23.8–94% across states) as compared to the general foster pop- ulation (median 87.3%, range 67.5–94.2%...
For example, a fellow is helping Washington state design innovative solutions to reduce the pipeline of young adults who go from foster care to homelessness. She’s drawing on her own background in human-centered design as well as getting valuable input from foster yout...
to share toys has provided my kids with an opportunity to learn how to respond and react to people who haven’t been exposed to the same upbringing as them. I have no doubt that these skills are great for their own development and will make them kinder, more patient teenagers and adults...
Ella contacted her parents’ friends, asking if they had spare furniture to___. And a local furniture store offered free space and delivery truck. Then she formed Chair-ity, a nonprofit providing furniture for young adults who have___foster care. Watching those...
ADULTS GET TO BE KIDS Joel Sutherland joelcsutherland via Unsplash ADULTS GET TO BE KIDS When you head to one of the four major Disney World parks, you eventually round a corner and see a major symbol that's representative of each area. For Magic Kingdom, it’s Cinderella’s Castle. Fo...
There’s a lesson that all adults (including me) need to learn– and that is, don’t judge a book by its cover. I was a single adoptive parent, and when we applied to a local Christian private school, I wrote a “n/a” when it came to the Fathers Name. In our interview, the...