Provides information on tracking students who are in a Foster Care setting.
Provides information on tracking students who are in a Foster Care setting in the state of Kentucky.
Foster care, designed to provide remedial services to the child and family and thus to facilitate family reconstitution, often fails. Health care of children in foster care cannot be separated from the circumstances that led to their placement or from the structure and operation of the foster ...
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care(MTFC) can be used to deliver services while the youth is placed with specially trained and supported foster parents (Chamberlain, 2003). While the youth is in foster care, the family is engaged in treatment aimed at a healthy reunification of the...
grandparents in the role of kinship carers aged 60 + and the psychosocial determinants of this deficit Marta Giezek1, Anna Wojtkowska2, Paulina Zabielska1* and Beata Karakiewicz1 Abstract Kinship care represents the most prevalent form of foster care ...
Providing effective foster care is a major undertaking that continues to plague this country. The ultimate goal of substitute care is to provide child victims of maltreatment with a safe and nurturing home environment. The goal of this theory driven research project was to identify ecological factors...
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) has been found to reduce delinquency among girls in juvenile justice through 2-year follow-up. Given that such girls are at elevated risk for suicide and depression into adulthood, we tested MTFC effects on long-term trajectories of suicidal ideation an...
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...
advisory boards have been the focus of limited research in child welfare, this descriptive study represents the first among many steps that are needed to understand the benefits and the challenges that come from foster youth advising and participatory practices with adolescents in out-of-home care....
One American study on child maltreatment in foster care pointed at a relation between the high rate of financial stress and the large number of single parents (Zuravin, Benedict, & Somerfield, 1993). However, more research is needed to find out if social and emotional functioning of foster ...