Children in foster care have often been exposed to social risk factors that drive pediatric health disparities, including pov- erty, single parent homes, family stress, maternal mental health concerns, minority race/ethnicity, and community and house- hold violence (3,4). It is not a surprise,...
The article focuses on DC127, a program started by Pastor Aaron Graham that connects church members to children awaiting foster care in Washington, D.C. Topics include the Foster the City special initiative event, how the church community actively helps children in need, and how the program ...
Preventive quality measures for the foster care population are largely untested. The objective of the study is to identify healthcare quality measures for young children and adolescents in foster care and to test whether the data required to calculate these measures can be feasibly extracted and inte...
Children with ADHD who were in foster care were also more likely to have another disorder, with roughly half also diagnosed with conditions such as oppositional defiant disorder, depression, or anxiety. This is compared to about 1 in 3 children with ADHD in Medicaid who were not in foster car...
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Noun1.foster care- supervised care for delinquent or neglected children usually in an institution or substitute home guardianship,tutelage,care,charge- attention and management implying responsibility for safety; "he is in the care of a bodyguard" ...
foster care system. These caregivers have taken a relative’s child(ren) into their homes to provide care in situations where the biological parent(s) cannot. Situations such as parental drug abuse, incarceration, abandonment, and parental incompetence, among others, lead to kinship foster care. ...
Newspaper articles, TV shows and books are filled with horror stories of children placed in foster care. A new study bucks that trend by showing out-of-home placements can improve the emotional health of some youths who have been maltreated by a parent.
McMillen C, Auslander W, Elze D, et al. Educational experiences and aspirations of older youth in foster care. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America; 2003.McMillen, C., Auslander, W., Elze, D., White, T., & Thompson, R. (2003). Educational expe- riences and aspirations ...
For National Foster Care month, an inside look at a program that gives experts in analytics, design, and other fields a chance to reinvent all aspects of foster care.