In the case of foster parents, who better to understand the complicated foster care system, the unique needs of the children and the emotional roller coaster of parenting them than those who have been through it themselves. That’s why foster care agencies throughout the country hold meetings ...
Agencies like The Center in Owensboro are doing their best to right that ship and they're doing so by focusing on the families- in particular the 980 of the 8047 kids that are fostered with relatives. 12% of children in Kentucky's foster care program fall into that category. They're pla...
Every year, child welfare agencies across the country are increasing their emphasis on kinship care, a form of foster care that gives placement preference to relative caregivers instead of traditional foster parents who are strangers to the children placed with them. Widely recognized as the better ...
Sheila Anderson, a program manager for Children’s Institute International’s emergency infant services, also serves as a lay representative to the California Assn. of Adoption Agencies. Parker Anderson is director of industrial and commercial development for the city of Los Angeles. The Andersons se...
Executive Summary of the Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) The NIS-3 findings are based on a nationally representative sample of more than 5,600 professionals in 842 agencies serving 42 counties. The study used two......
He didn't care. There was a man now (he told me boastfully) to whom he could sing and talk in the language of his country, and show how to dance by-and-by. "But I don't know. To me he appeared to have grown less springy of step, heavier in body, less keen of eye. ...
Trend data are routinely produced by foster care agencies. We contend, however, that these data, which tend to be annualized, remove operationally useful information from conversations about how systems work and why we see the population changes we see. We want to add that lost information back...
Societies 2017, 7, 37; doi:10.3390/soc7040037 www.mdpi.com/journal/societies Societies 2017, 7, 37 2 of 14 results from the relative ignorance of foster care in Portuguese society, either by the absence of its promotion by the public agencies or by the civil society, or the lack of ...