"I am a former DSHS employee who taught foster parents, wrote curriculum, and worked with foster/adopt/relative placement families. I find myself now wearing the shoes of an adoptive parent of 9 and still required to meet the training requirements for foster care. I have taken just about ev...
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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...
Under AFDC program rules, a child living with a non-parent relative is virtually always considered needy because the AFDC income, resource and other tests are applied only to the child. This means that whether the non-parent relative is very wealthy or very poor is not a consideration in det...
This study presents findings from one grantee's local formative evaluation of an evidence-based parenting intervention 鈥 Parent Management Training Oregon Model (PMTO) 鈥 which targeted families of children with serious emotional disturbance (SED). Using Epstein & Klerman's (2013) logic model ...
However, federal child welfare policy requires child welfare agencies to respond to certain health-related requirements. Health Care Records Federal law requires that the state child welfare agency have a written plan for each child in foster care, including certain health-related records. These ...
Abstract High school graduation is a key developmental milestone. Most youth in foster care and young people generally want to attend college but adverse experiences put many at risk of either not completing high school or earning an alternative degree, which reduces the likelihood of college enrollm...
the parent is retired or disabled and is entitled to either Social Security old age (i.e., retirement) or disability benefits; or the parent is deceased and was fully insured for Social Security benefits based on work history at the time of death. ...