This exploratory focus group study examines foster parent perspectives on what facilitates and impedes their engagement in child welfare court processes. Findings from six focus groups held in diverse areas of Maryland with a total of 57 participants indicate that foster parents are often unsure of ...
The following data were gathered from foster parents who attended foster parent training or support groups. This researcher mailed initial research packets to 117 public and private foster care agencies in Maryland, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. Results of the mailing yiel...
"I am in the process of adopting a child born to a mother who was both drug and alcohol dependent. It was necessary for me to get 6 credits to maintain my foster/adoption parent status, but none of the programs offered in my area seemed to relate to my child. I found your site by...
Maryland was put under a consent decree In 1984, it was ruled that Maryland hadn’t been meeting the needs of the children in foster care, so the state’s program was put under a consent decree in 1988. The Act that facilitated adoptions ...
For instance, we find that the quality of parent-child interaction is improved after the more intensive intervention (and to a smaller extent, after the less intensive intervention), and we provide evidence of a causal relationship with changes in beliefs about child development. Finally, we find...
“It was kind of a dream of mine from the very beginning, that we would have a support system in place for people coming in, because of the challenges we found when we started and wanting to help those coming in to do foster care,” (veteran foster parent Deana) Hoeschen said. ...
The University of Maryland has created a model program providing social work and legal services to at-risk grandparent families to help avoid the unnecessary placement of these children in foster care. In this new program, student attorneys and student social workers worked with the grandparent ...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) --A Maryland based organization that began its work five years ago is busy in downtown Baltimore this weekend. Comfort Cases provides backpacks to foster children. It was founded by Rob Scheer, who was a foster child himself. ...
Attempts to locate a bio- logic parent for consent can delay medical care, or may compel a court-appointed guardian or court-ordered treatment (49). In practice, serious medical decisions for foster children with medical complexity are variably shared between bio- logical parents, foster parents,...
“The agency has a statutory obligation to pay the foster care costs of children in their care, while the children do not,” Hatcher argued in his brief, which alleges that the department never notified Myers about its use of the benefits. Maryland child welfare officials are frustrated by ...