If the demand for foster care varies widely across neighborhoods, then directing resources to the areas with the greatest need is fiscally efficient as well. This study, based on work in New York City, addresses the following questions: 1) how does foster care utilization vary across ...
New York City has also undertaken its own foster care reform. In the 1970s, a number of prominent child advocates raised concerns about the use of foster care as the first, rather than the last, alternative. A child rescue mentality drove many of the child welfare agencies at the time, ...
摘要: The Child Welfare Information Service (CWIS) a computerized information system in New York City, provides data shedding new light on the movement of children out of the foster care system.关键词:Child Welfare Data Analysis Demography Foster Children ...
……in foster care homes can visit it once a month and walk away or around the city (800) 333-2222“They make you feel really loved,” says 14-year-old Alexie. “They're helping a lot of children who just need to feel loved and welcome.”“A Victoria's Secret dress I get from ...
The study describes 210 children and families returning home from foster homes and group facilities in 20 agencies in New York City. It examines whether a child's reentering care within one and two years of discharge, as opposed to not reentering care, was associated with certain child, careg...
College Choice is an expansion of previous city programs that provides educational opportunities for students in foster care, making New York City the first in the nation to gave a program of this scale. Have a story idea or tip in Brooklyn? Email Hannah byCLICKING HERE....
History of National Foster Care Month Around 1830, a large population of homeless children emerged in big cities in the Northeast, including New York City. Some children were orphaned because of their parents dying of epidemics like typhoid and the flu, others were neglected due to poverty. At...
"We had foster parents, the McMahons – Mama Anna and Daddy Albert – and they were so loving to us. We didn't realize we were in foster care until we left their home at 10," they said. The twins said they were up for adoption a few times but it didn't work out. ...
Jeanette Yoffe's desire to become a psychotherapist with a special focus on adoption and foster care derives from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system in New York City. Her personal knowledge has informed her education and provided insight into this unique...
. . has lost his natural support and must depend upon the public for the necessaries of life and for such upbringing as current standards require." 1 The obligation of New York City to dependent chil-dren is partially discharged by care given them in their own homes, and a large ...