An adult foster care home located in Portland, Oregon. This home provides loving care and services to seniors who can't take complete care of themselves because of medical problems, old age, or other similar conditions.
Continued Congregate Care in Oregon Oregon is one state that is struggling to move beyond congregate housing. After an audit and a lawsuit headed by the nonprofit A Better Childhood, the state has come under fire for their treatment of foster youth. According toReuters, the lawsuit has been fi...
The question of whether kinship foster homes meet the same standards and requirements as licensed foster homes raises a critical issue within kinship foster care. A large number of kinship foster homes are not formally connected to the child welfare system. Those relatives providing informal kinship ...
"I am a former DSHS employee who taught foster parents, wrote curriculum, and worked with foster/adopt/relative placement families. I find myself now wearing the shoes of an adoptive parent of 9 and still required to meet the training requirements for foster care. I have taken just about ev...
All the domains could be calculated in accordance with the requirements of the manual (Carter & Briggs-Gowan, 2006). A Norwegian translation of the questionnaire was used, without available Norwegian norms. In this study, the caregiver report from both caregivers as well as preschool teachers ...
Minimum fidelity requirements were attained by 91% of practitioners. Intermediate outcomes generally revealed improvements for the treatment group with statistically significant differences between treatment and control group on some but not all measures. The proxy for permanency was markedly better for the...
Advised a leading owner-operator of integrated senior healthcare campuses in multiple facility refinancings, including with HUD, in several states, including Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, and Ohio. AGG assisted with determining any filing requirements for the refinancings, the compilation of filings, an...
home or other eligible child care institution that islicensedby the state to provide foster care. However, some states previously made Title IV-Eadministrativeclaims (only) for costs incurred on behalf of children who meet all of the Title IV-E foster care eligibility requirementsexceptthat they ...
High school graduation is a key developmental milestone. Most youth in foster care and young people generally want to attend college but adverse experience
This new mandatory coverage category for youth aging out of foster care is distinct from the ACA Medicaid expansion requirements in Section 2001 of the ACA that are related to coverage for most non-elderly adults with annual incomes below 133% of the federal poverty level.2 For that group, ...