This chapter is based onFoster Care and Families: Conflicting Policies and Valuesby Ruth Hubbell. Temple University Press, 1981. The study on which the book is based was funded by grants from the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation and the Foundation for Child Development. ...
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Concerns of Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island over the legislation; Details of the similar bill proposed in the House; Views of Republicans and Democrats on managed care legislation.BeadleAndrewEBSCO_AspCq Weekly
High school graduation is a key developmental milestone. Most youth in foster care and young people generally want to attend college but adverse experiences put many at risk of either not completing high school or earning an alternative degree, which reduces the likelihood of college enrollment. You...
have been gaining traction as a way to bolster informal kinship care to provide better outcomes for the children living with relative caregivers. Initially started as state and county-based initiatives, KNPs gained their first national sponsorship through Family Connection Grants provided by the Foster...
First, children experiencing disruptions in care early in life were shown to be at heightened risk for developing negative self-representations, even though many of these foster placements were relatively stable. A Acknowledgement Support for the work described here was provided by NIMH grants R01 ...
The "Candidates" Provision or Limiting Eligibility for Federal Matching of Foster Care Administrative Costs Increase Mandatory Funding for the Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program Grants to Strengthen Court Handling of Child Welfare Proceedings ...
Most children in foster care are eligible for Medicaid under mandatory eligibility pathways, meaning that states must provide coverage because these children receive assistance under the Title IV-E program, or, because they meet other eligibility criteria such as low income, or receipt of Supplemental...
“best interests” of children. Too often, children are ripped from loving homes over false allegations or absurd reasons and placed in homes with strangers. Health Impact News has reported numerous stories of children who are placed into foster care who never should have been...
“Senators also said they were alarmed by the newspaper’s analysis that showed how pharmaceutical companies lavish the state’s foster care prescribers with millions of dollars for meals, gifts, travel, speaking engagements and research grants — a practice Lightbourne called ‘deeply troubling.’ ...