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Payments to foster families vary depending on the level of care-taking required. Relatives who have not completed the same level of licensing as other foster parents may not be paid at all. Specific jurisdictions may help foster families deal with other expenses, such as childcare, Dr. Seman...
Kinship care in child welfare: An analysis of states' policies Dramatic growth in the number of children placed with their relatives and financially supported with foster care payments by the child welfare system has r... JP Gleeson,LC Craig - 《Children & Youth Services Review》 被引量: 104...
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Buckner said the median length of time in care for foster children in Alabama was 13.1 months, below the national median of 17.5 months, which she said was a positive sign. Children come into state custody because of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, incarceration of...
In analyses also examining state revenue, federal funding, and legal challenges, maintenance rates increased as the federal share of maximum TANF payments increased. However, >50% of variation in foster care maintenance rates was explained by unobserved state-level factors as measured by state fixed...
foster care bill of rights michigan. To receive medical, dental, vision, and mental health services. (2) Freedom from discrimination because of race, color, religion, disability, national origin, age or gender. To not be locked in any room, building, or facility premises, unless placed in ...
The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act recognizes the problems inherent in kinship care providers’ informal status and includes efforts to address these problems. This act provides states with the option of guardianship assistance payments for children in kinship care when relat...
Those federal disability payments would have amounted to an estimated $123,000 over 13 years for Alexus Brandon, her foster mother Brenda Keith said. But Brandon, 21, received none of that when she aged out of Missouri’s foster care system because the state had used it a...