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...
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 ...
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However, there is another group of caregivers who often are not included in the general category of caregivers: kinship caregivers in the 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...
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But there is a growing recognition that children need more support when they leave foster care. Seven states (Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Nebraska, Arizona and Oregon) have now passed laws to help children keep their federal benefits – although a similar bill in California was...
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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...
More than a dozen states have made at least some sort of revisions to the practice since Maryland became the first to do so in 2018. Colorado became the latest in April when it enacted a law establishing a foster children’s list of rights, which stipulates that any bene...