Journal articles: 'Foster home care Victoria'

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Volard, Jill, Christine Baxter, and Cliff da Costa. "Recruiting Out-of-Home Caregivers for Children with an Intellectual Disability in the Shared Family Care Program." Children Australia 18, no. 4 (1993): 23–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200003692.

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Recruiting caregivers for children with an intellectual disability who require out-of-home respite or longer-term care is a problem which has challenged service providers for many years. This paper summarises findings of a recent evaluation of Shared Family Care, a foster care program in Victoria for children with intellectual disabilities/developmental delay. Current recruiting is not succeeding in meeting the demand for either respite, short term or long term care. Findings of the evaluation suggest that factors such as use of appropriate media, and running effective recruitment campaigns is only part of the answer. It is also important at every stage to address caregiver satisfaction with the job and employ strategies to find potential caregivers in the community.

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Fischer, Fiona. "Placing sibling groups together in foster care: The Oz Child sibling group placement program." Children Australia 27, no. 2 (2002): 17–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200005022.

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Sibling groups placed in out-of-home care are often separated due to the relatively small number of caregivers who are able to care for large sibling groups, as well as the individual needs of the children. This article briefly explores the complexities of sibling placement within the international, national and Victorian contexts. It continues with a description of the Oz Child Sibling Group Placement Program which was implemented in Victoria's Southern Region to place sibling groups of three or more children together in foster care. The results of a review of the program are presented, including referral statistics, placement data and caregiver feedback. The article concludes with the consideration of recommendations for change as a result of the review.

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Campbell, Lynda. "Change and continuities in foster care in Victoria:Prospects and Tasks in Foster Carerevisited." Children Australia 32, no. 1 (2007): 7–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s103507720001141x.

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Foster care in Victoria is under strain. As Victoria implements major legislative and service system reforms, we should consider how the future of foster care can be informed by its past. To that end, this paper revisits the document on which Victoria’s current system of foster care was founded, Tierney’s 1973 report ‘Prospects and Tasks in Foster Care’. With reference to that template, this paper examines some of the service system changes that have threatened the viability of foster care, and draws attention to some enduring qualities of foster care that nevertheless are worthy of preservation.

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Dyer, Elizabeth M., and Stuart W. B. Evans. "Family induction into foster care." Children Australia 22, no. 1 (1997): 36–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200008075.

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This paper presents the findings of a study into current induction practices in foster care agencies throughout Victoria. Eighty per cent of registered agencies responded to a mailed questionnaire exploring: the means of initial contact for prospective foster families, information and pre-service education sessions, assessment of families and the ongoing relationship between new foster families and the foster care agency.Educational strategies are explored and the issue of worker continuity is discussed in relation to foster family retention and maintaining commitment through early placement difficulties.

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Evans, Stuart W. B., and Leonard J. Tierney. "Making foster care possible: A study of 307 foster families in Victoria." Children Australia 20, no. 2 (1995): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200004430.

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Why in times of economic hardship do some families continue to offer to help others in the form of foster care? Can an understanding of foster families improve the targeting of foster programs? This paper presents findings from a study of more than 300 foster families from seven foster care agencies throughout urban and rural victoria. The families who currently choose or are chosen to foster are most likely to be dual parent, stable and settled Australians with an active connection and commitment to their local community and to family life and children. They do not appear to be motivated principally by rational monetary incentives but rather by a mixture of a belief in the benefits of family experiences, a strong desire to have and nurture children, a willingness to share tasks as a family unit, to both give and receive support and a conviction to be of service to others. It is concluded that foster families are not only child and family centred, they are part of active and reciprocal family and community networks that focus upon the needs of children and non-material family values.

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Leinonen, Raija, and Maria Kuukkanen. "Adult foster care of older people." International Journal of Care and Caring 4, no. 3 (August 1, 2020): 441–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/239788220x15864994310333.

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The focus of this article is to introduce the community-based adult foster care of older people in Finland. Although adult foster care is a public care service, it is organised in a private home, either in the foster carer’s home or in the older person’s home. The foster carer and the county make a commission agreement. Adult foster care can be full-time long-term care or short-term full-time or part-time care.

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McPherson, Lynne, and Noel MacNamara. "Therapeutic Kinship Care: A Carer's Perspective." Children Australia 39, no. 4 (December 2014): 221–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2014.29.

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Kinship-care placements in Australia are now more prevalent than foster care and are the fastest growing form of out-of-home care in this country (AIHW, 2014). On 30 June 2013, 93% of Australian children in out-of-home care were in home-based care, with 43% of these in foster care and 48% in relative/kinship care (AIHW, 2014). The past decade has seen a greater understanding of children's needs in out-of-home care, with models of therapeutic care showing promise in Australia and internationally. These models, however, are designed almost exclusively for children placed in foster care or residential care, and as such do not consider the unique features of kinship care. This paper will identify the needs of children in out-of-home care, before briefly examining the concepts of therapeutic foster care as a response to children who have experienced trauma. Key distinctions between foster care and kinship care will be highlighted and implications for a conceptual model of therapeutic kinship care discussed.

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Festinger, Trudy. "Going home and returning to foster care." Children and Youth Services Review 18, no. 4-5 (January 1996): 383–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0190-7409(96)00011-4.

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Student. "NO FOSTER CARE AVAILABLE." Pediatrics 83, no. 3 (March 1, 1989): 331. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.83.3.331.

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They are nomad children, hundreds of New York City children who are moved each night from one foster care home to another. These children, ranging from infancy to adolescence, spend most of their days in field offices of the city's Special Services for Children. At night they are shuttled from borough to borough, carrying what few possessions they have in plastic bags. These children have been lost in the maze of the city's foster care system.

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Levy, Cari, and Emily A. Whitfield. "Medical Foster Homes: Can the Adult Foster Care Model Substitute for Nursing Home Care?" Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 64, no. 12 (October 14, 2016): 2585–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14517.

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Bald, Anthony, Joseph J. Doyle, Max Gross, and Brian A. Jacob. "Economics of Foster Care." Journal of Economic Perspectives 36, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 223–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/jep.36.2.223.

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Foster care provides substitute living arrangements to protect maltreated children. The practice is remarkably common: it is estimated that 5 percent of children in the United States are placed in foster care at some point during childhood. This paper describes the main tradeoffs in child welfare policy and provides background on policy and practice most in need of rigorous evidence. Trends include efforts to prevent foster care on the demand side and to improve foster home recruitment on the supply side. With increasing data availability and a growing interest in evidence-based practices, there are opportunities for economic research to inform policies that protect vulnerable children.

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Elliott, Sheryl, Sarah Dys, Jaclyn Winfree, and Paula Carder. "ADULT FOSTER HOME OWNERS' PERSPECTIVES ON REWARDS AND CHALLENGES OF OPERATING AN ADULT FOSTER HOME." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (November 2019): S965. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.3499.

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Abstract Adult foster homes (AFHs) are small, residential settings providing older adults and persons with disabilities an alternative to nursing facilities and larger residential care settings. Some groups, including individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, are well served by smaller settings. Although AFHs are common throughout the US, research on this setting is scant and dated. This study summarizes four years of qualitative data from Oregon AFH owners’ (N=726) responses to open-ended questions about the challenges and rewards of owning and operating an AFH. Content analysis of 924 comments indicate that providing resident care (42%), finding the work meaningful and “a life calling” (21%), developing a family-like connection with residents (15%), and working at home (8%) were the most commonly reported rewards. The most frequently described challenges included caring for residents with multiple chronic health conditions—including those with difficult behaviors (17%), difficulty hiring and retaining qualified caregivers (15%), low Medicaid reimbursement rates (14%), and adhering to administrative rules (14%). Results highlight AFH providers’ personal satisfaction with caring for and establishing connections with residents, and challenges associated with residents’ increasingly complex care needs, Medicaid reimbursement rates, and attitudes about state regulations. Although AFHs are licensed by states, they are subject to federal regulations, including the 2014 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services home and community-based services ruling. The new regulations, Oregon administrative rules, Medicaid reimbursement rates, and caregiver supply are presented to contextualize AFH owner comments and regulatory considerations.

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Runyan, Desmond K., and Carolyn L. Gould. "Foster Care for Child Maltreatment: Impact on Delinquent Behavior." Pediatrics 75, no. 3 (March 1, 1985): 562–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.75.3.562.

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Previous reports of child maltreatment Sequelae have not systematically examined the effects of societal intervention. A historical cohort study has been undertaken to examine the impact of one intervention, foster care, on the subsequent development of juvenile delinquency among child victims. One hundred fourteen foster children, aged 11 to 18 years, in foster care for three or more years, and who were in foster care as a result of maltreatment were studied. A comparison cohort was composed of 106 victims of maltreatment who were left in their family home; these children were similar to the children in foster care with regard to age, race, sex, and year of diagnosis. Cohort differences in maternal education, type of abuse, history of prior maltreatment, sex, and race were controlled in the analysis. Foster children committed 0.050 crimes per person-year after age 11 years; home care children committed 0.059 crimes per person-year after age 11 years (P > .2). Foster children were more likely to have committed criminal assault. Among foster children, increased number of foster home placements correlated with increased number of delinquency convictions. Overall, there appears to be no support for the idea that foster care is responsible for a significant portion of later problems encountered by victims of maltreatment.

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Levy, Cari, Emily A. Whitfield, and Roee Gutman. "Medical foster home is less costly than traditional nursing home care." Health Services Research 54, no. 6 (July 22, 2019): 1346–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13195.

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Kwantes, Catherine T., Siddardh Thirumangai Alwar, Stephanie J. Cragg, and Magali Feola. "Enhancing Foster Care Home NGO Sustainability via Social Franchising." Management:Journal of Sustainable Business and Management Solutions in Emerging Economies 25, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.7595/management.fon.2020.0014.

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Research Question: This paper investigates how the social franchising approach may enhance the sustainability and capability of Foster Home NGOs in the Global South. Motivation: While many programmes exist to address issues such as poverty and lack of education for children in nations of the Global South, many operate in isolation, and are grassroots and/or stand-alone operations. Little research has been undertaken to understand how various approaches to organizational sustainability may be enacted for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) seeking to provide care for children in foster care homes. Our goal was to apply franchising and social franchising concepts as a framework for NGOs and non-profit organizations to use as a way of enhancing both the capability of achieving their mission as well as a method of organizational sustainability. Idea: Much of the literature on social franchising has been in the area of providing health care and services – however, this model may be useful to enhance the sustainability for NGOs and non-profit organizations that provide other critical services as well, such as foster care homes in the Global South. Findings: The social franchising model offers a concrete and actionable business model to foster home organizations with multiple homes to standardize care delivery as well as develop a strong core organization. Contribution: This paper explores how applying the social franchising model could enhance sustainability of NGOs with foster care home programmes, as well as some of the opportunities and challenges in applying this model to such NGOs and non-profit organizations.

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Berrick, Jill Duerr. "When Children Cannot Remain Home: Foster Family Care and Kinship Care." Future of Children 8, no. 1 (1998): 72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1602629.

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Rosen, Clarice E. "Chapter 9: Treatment Foster Home Care for Autistic Children." Child & Youth Services 12, no. 1-2 (September 14, 1989): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j024v12n01_09.

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Seaberg, J. R. "Placement in Permanency Planning: Own Home Versus Foster Care." Social Work Research and Abstracts 24, no. 4 (December 1, 1988): 4–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/swra/24.4.4.

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Simms, Mark D., Howard Dubowitz, and Moira A. Szilagyi. "Health Care Needs of Children in the Foster Care System." Pediatrics 106, Supplement_3 (October 1, 2000): 909–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.106.s3.909.

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Nearly 750 000 children are currently in foster care in the United States. Recent trends in foster care include reliance on extended family members to care for children in kinship care placements, increased efforts to reduce the length of placement, acceleration of termination of parental rights proceedings, and emphasis on adoption. It is not clear what impact welfare reform may have on the number of children who may require foster care placement. Although most children enter foster care with medical, mental health, or developmental problems, many do not receive adequate or appropriate care while in placement. Psychological and emotional problems, in particular, may worsen rather than improve. Multiple barriers to adequate health care for this population exist. Health care practitioners can help to improve the health and well-being of children in foster care by performing timely and thorough admission evaluations, providing continuity of care, and playing an active advocacy role. Potential areas for health services research include study of the impact of different models of health care delivery, the role of a medical home in providing continuity of care, the perception of the foster care experience by the child, children's adjustment to foster care, and foster parent education on health outcomes.

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Delfabbro, Paul, Daniel King, and James Barber. "Children in foster care– Five years on." Children Australia 35, no. 1 (2010): 22–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000936.

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This paper reviews the findings of the South Australian longitudinal study and the extent to which findings are borne out in subsequent national and international research. Included in this paper is an analysis of several issues in out-of-home care, including the disparity between child and carer numbers, the nature and effects of placement instability, the complexity of child behaviour and family contact. Using some recent findings of the ongoing National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) study in the United States, the paper shows how many of the South Australian findings have been also borne out in other studies with larger sample sizes and more sophisticated measures. These comparisons suggest that the out-of-home care experiences of children living in both countries may share many similarities. Findings obtained in either country may be more easily translated to inform policy and practice internationally than has been previously thought.

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Diogo, Elisete, and Francisco Branco. "How Do People Become Foster Carers in Portugal? The Process of Building the Motivation." Social Sciences 8, no. 8 (August 1, 2019): 230. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci8080230.

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Act no. 142/2015 highlights the importance of children out-of-home being placed in a family context. However, foster care continues to be an almost absent component in the Portuguese childcare system. In 2017, it corresponded to just 3% of out-of-home care. This research aims to contribute to the understanding of the reasons for becoming a foster family. It adopted a qualitative approach, using carers’ narrative interviews and practitioners semi-structured interviews, inspired by grounded theory. Foster family motivation is rooted in altruism, affection for children and sensitivity to maltreatment. These factors, as well as personal life course and contact with out-of-home care, induce a predisposition to become a foster family. The quality of the support services and the care professionals’ performance also reveal key elements.

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Wulczyn, Fred. "Foster Care in a Life Course Perspective." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 692, no. 1 (November 2020): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220976535.

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To understand what placement outside of one’s home means to the young people involved, we must understand foster care from a life course perspective. I analyze young people’s experiences in foster care from this perspective, accounting for when foster care happens, how long it lasts, and what happens when foster care placements end. I show that the population of children coming into foster care is younger and less urban than it was 20 years ago. I also show reliable measures of exposure to foster care over the life course. Children who enter care early in life are the children who spend the largest proportion of their childhood in foster care—a fact that rarely weighs on the policymaking process. We know very little about state and local variation in foster care placement rates, not to mention the influence of social services, the courts, foster parents, and caseworkers over foster children, so I close by arguing investment in research should be a clear policy priority.

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Lee, Sang Jung, Eun Mi An, and Ick-Joong Chung. "Assessing Satisfaction of Children in out-of-Home Care: Development of Korean out-of-Home Care Satisfaction Scale." Child Indicators Research 13, no. 4 (December 12, 2019): 1217–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12187-019-09688-6.

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AbstractIn order to offer client-centered services, it is important to measure children’s service satisfaction and reflect their needs to out-of-home care practices and policies. However, a reliable measure that assesses children’s satisfaction about out-of-home care is not found in Korea. This study aimed to develop a Korean out-of-home care satisfaction scale. The study sample consisted of 484 children from institutional care, group homes, and foster homes in Korea. Half of the sample was chosen randomly for exploratory factor analysis (EFA) based on 16 items from the Korean Foster Care Improvements Project. The other half of the sample was used for confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). EFA yielded two-factor structures that consist of eight items for each factor. Confirmatory factor analyses supported the two-factor structures with reasonable fit, and all items loaded significantly on the factors. The Korean out-of-home care satisfaction scale could be used as a tool to assess children’s satisfaction with out-of-home care services, which could allow social workers to reflect children’s needs immediately into practice and help policymakers make more informed decisions about out-of-home care services and programs.

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Szwarc, Barbara. "Child Welfare and the Disabled — Is the Battle for Justice Really Being Fought?" Children Australia 11, no. 2-3 (1987): 5–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000016726.

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AbstractThis paper is based on the latest findings of the Children's Bureau of Australia recently released study entitled Particular Care Reconsidered by Barbara Szwarc. The Study, being a follow-up to the 1979 Report by N.J. Smith and G. Gregory entitled Particular Care was based on an Australia wide survey conducted in June 1984 on all children living in Non-Government Childrens Homes and Foster Care. Particular concentration in the study has been given to children in disadvantageous positions.Also referred to in this paper is another report by Barbara Swarcz on A Study Into The Victorian Children's Aid Society Respite Care Program During the 1985-86 Holiday Period. This report was based primarily on the perceptions of parents of the children who used the program.Of particular concern in this paper is the amount of undue injustice and inequality that such children and their families suffer just because their children are disabled.

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Samašonok, Kristina. "The Development of Independent Life Skills of the Children and Teenagers from Foster Home: Achievements, Challenges, Solutions." Pedagogika 110, no. 2 (June 10, 2013): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/p.2013.1825.

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Contemporary society is concerned about successful functioning of its members and their effective participation in social interrelations therefore the adaptation of children living in foster homes is perceived as a relevant social issue. In the context of developing democratic ideas increasing attention is being paid towards the problem of adaptive behavior and its development in children without parental care. It is influenced by important social, political, value and legal changes having occurred in the last several decades in Lithuania in a context of which the attitude towards children without parental care, their social status, foster care and development is also changing. While adopting more laws and resolutions on the issues of child’s foster care, development and healthcare there appear more possibilities to solve a lot of relevant questions in child foster care and training institutions. In the context of democracy increasing attention is paid towards social integration of children living in foster institutions, their involvement and participation into social life. The goals and objectives of Lithuanian educational system reflect the intention to prepare a person for life, who is able to analyze reality individually or with other people, also adequately deal with the problems, plan the future and successfully adapt to the constantly changing, dynamic society. These objectives allow to discover a variety of aspects of the organization of educational activities in foster homes. The problematic issue arises while preparing foster home pupils for independent living: Are the educational system and conditions at foster homes sufficient and adequate in process of preparation for independent life? The article actualizes the educational significance of preparing teenagers for independent life. Interviews with foster home staff evaluate the current situation of foster homes, disclose the education system, work achievements (strengths), discuss the developmental problems and identify deficiencies of preparation for independent living in foster homes. The aim – to assess the preparation of foster home pupils for independent living within the context of foster homes, revealing the positive and improvable aspects of the foster home educator’s point of view. Analyzing the features of foster home preparation for independent living in care institutions, the study involved 17 foster home staff, based on their opinion about their personal work experiences and points of view. In order to understand home educational activities, to review the pupils’ preparation for independent living opportunities, educational reality, to find out and identify problems, provide opportunities for improving the situation, the interview method was used. Instant analysis revealed that home care workers initiated a variety of activities: encourage children to solve problems, analyze situations and make decisions. It is also practiced by demonstration of adult example, analyzing the situation and promoting the search for solutions. Workshops are organized, situations and educational environment is created in which the pupils are encouraged to act independently, provide practical training skills that enable learners to try themselves in different activities (household work, cooking, etc.). However, according to the assessment of the current situation in foster homes, it is clear that there are not optimal functions performed by the formation of practical skills and preparing for independent living of children without parental care. Interviews revealed that foster homes lack „real practices“ when most children are able to buy food, count the money, pay for services, cook, and independence is developed mostly by the potential circumstances. Comments on the survey suggest that the lack of practical activities, funding and real-world examples in foster homes prevent realization of the set goals, implement ideas for youngsters to prepare for independent living, to acquire domestic skills and do not create conditions for independent personal development (learning). Discussing the opportunities for improvement of foster home preparation for independent living, almost unanimously expressed material financial base and the improvement of household demand. Foster home staff believes that the conditions under which pupils can cook themselves face with the real everyday life, keep their own budgets, learn, acquire new knowledge or skills may be one of the most successful assumptions for training (learning) to live independently when they came out foster homes.

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Hoffmann, Laurel Murphy, Madeline Lowry Woods, Louise Elaine Vaz, Gregory Blaschke, and Tamara Grigsby. "Measuring care coordination by social workers in a foster care medical home." Social Work in Health Care 60, no. 5 (May 28, 2021): 467–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2021.1944452.

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Nyman, John A., Michael Finch, Rosalie A. Kane, Robert L. Kane, and Laurel Hixon Illston. "The Substitutability of Adult Foster Care for Nursing Home Care in Oregon." Medical Care 35, no. 8 (August 1997): 801–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00005650-199708000-00006.

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Kothari, Brianne H., Bowen McBeath, Lew Bank, Paul Sorenson, Jeff Waid, and Sara Jade Webb. "Validation of a Measure of Foster Home Integration for Foster Youth." Research on Social Work Practice 28, no. 6 (October 25, 2016): 751–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049731516675033.

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Objectives: This article introduces a youth-reported measure (Essential Youth Experiences [EYE]) developed to assess the experiences of foster youth in their home environment and their critical relationships across a number of service systems. Empirically, the article reports on the psychometric properties of a 9-item scale within the EYE that measures the construct of positive home integration (PHI). Methods: The EYE was administered to 328 preadolescent and adolescent youth (164 sibling dyads) enrolled in a larger randomized clinical trial. Results: Correlational analysis suggests that the PHI Scale shows good psychometric properties and strong current and predictive validity. Conclusion: The PHI is a reliable and valid scale that measures youth perspectives of inclusion in the foster home and relationships with their foster care provider. This scale quickly gathers youth perspectives and differentiates between youth who have more versus less significant needs. Implications for research and social work practice are discussed.

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Bain, Kevin. "The long term care of children with disabilities: Is family the only way?" Children Australia 23, no. 3 (1998): 9–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200008695.

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Some families need to place their disabled child in long term out of home care, due to a high care burden. Foster family care is increasingly the only option available. While published research is sparse, there is evidence that rostered staff models of care are more appropriate for some children, and the potential gains from family care are overstated. Questions are raised about foster care successes overseas and locally, particularly as care options are restricted to in home support or alternative family models. Rostered staff models can promote a child’s involvement with the birth family, and should be developed further. Planners need to foster diversity, which allows flexibility and promises new knowledge.

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McIntosh, Jennifer. "Therapeutic transitions in out of home care." Children Australia 24, no. 4 (1999): 29–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200009342.

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This paper sets out a series of principles for minimising the trauma of transitions experienced by children in out of home care. It is based on a child centred approach that has as its goal making transition bearable and psychologically useful for each child who must go through it, creating a space where even previous transition wounds might heal. The paper concentrates particularly on the complexities of helping children to move between foster care and permanent care placements.

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O'Neill, C. "Adoption, permanent care and foster care: Home-based care in and beyond the 1990s." Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 36, no. 5 (October 18, 2000): 415–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1754.2000.00549.x.

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DeLucia, Michael, Anna Martens, JoAnna Leyenaar, and Leah A. Mallory. "Improving Hospital-to-Home Transitions for Children Entering Foster Care." Hospital Pediatrics 8, no. 8 (July 24, 2018): 465–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/hpeds.2017-0221.

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Braun, Kathryn L., and Charles L. Rose. "Family Perceptions of Geriatric Foster Family and Nursing Home Care." Family Relations 36, no. 3 (July 1987): 321. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/583548.

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Camacho, Inês, Margarida Matos, Catarina Mota, Gina Tomé, Marta Reis, and Antonia Jiménez-Iglesias. "When Foster Care is Called “Home”: Risk and Protective Issues." British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science 15, no. 3 (January 10, 2016): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/bjesbs/2016/24093.

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Miller, Keith A., Philip A. Fisher, Becky Fetrow, and Kathy Jordan. "Trouble on the journey home: Reunification failures in foster care." Children and Youth Services Review 28, no. 3 (March 2006): 260–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2005.03.010.

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Oktay, J. S., and P. J. Volland. "Foster home care for the frail elderly as an alternative to nursing home care: an experimental evaluation." American Journal of Public Health 77, no. 12 (December 1987): 1505–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.77.12.1505.

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Keogh, Louise, and Ulla Svensson. "Why don’t they become foster carers?: A study of people who inquire about foster care." Children Australia 24, no. 2 (1999): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200009081.

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In response to concerns within the Children’s Welfare Association of Victoria (CWAV) about the difficulty of recruiting foster parents, a study of the recruitment process experienced by Victorian inquirers was conducted. The literature consistently reports a low rate of conversion of inquirers into foster carers. This study was concerned with finding out the cause of this low rate, what happens to the inquirers after making a call and why they decide to continue or not continue with foster care?Telephone interviews were conducted with 91 inquirers about their experience of the recruitment process. Only 4 per cent of these inquirers had become carers. The rest were split evenly between those who decided not to continue because of personal circumstances, and those who were discouraged in some way by the response to their contact received from the allocated agency. This result was surprising and disappointing, and we suggest that these callers may be a more valuable resource than agencies suspect. Ways of giving these callers more effective follow up, while recognising constraints on time and resources experienced by workers in this field, are needed to take full advantage of the opportunity to recruit the potential carers among them.

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Samašonok, Kristina. "The Implementation of the Right to Live in the Families for the Children from the Child Care Home: Approach of the Workers of Child Care Home." Pedagogika 118, no. 2 (June 10, 2015): 217–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/p.2015.016.

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The importance of family and quality of relations between its members is very important to the process of personal development. The child’s separation from his parents and placement in care homes have long-term consequences to the development of the child. After evaluation of the importance of family for psychosocial development of personality, the attention should be drawn to improve the system of child care for children without parental care. Increasingly it is considered to ensure the child’s right to live the family life, also to return children living in child care homes to their biological parents and to integrate families of foster parents. According to the current situation, the article reveals what trends prevail in practice of home care workers in order to ensure that children live in the families of the biological parents or foster parents. Also the article helps to evaluate the strengths of achievements in performance of employee as well as perceive the existing problems and provide the prospects for improvement of the situation and possible changes. In order for the children not to live at the child care homes, but in families with their parents or guardians, the question arises: what kind of effort has been made by care home staff to ensure the rights of children to live with parents or with a foster family? The aim of the study is to assess the context of the situation from the position of home care workers in order to ensure the right of children to live in the families of parents or foster parents. The peculiarities of the implementation of the right for children from care home to live in the family were analyzed. The study involved 17 care home staff and was based on their view and personal work experience. A semi-standardized interview method has been applied to get to know the strengths of performance achievements of care home staff also to reveal the problems and shortcomings impeding the right of children from care home to live in the family with parents or foster parents and to provide the improvement techniques for the implementation of the child care system. Interviews revealed that the care home staff admits the importance of the relationship between the child and his parents and other family members for the psychosocial development of the child and try to strengthen the relationship between children and their parents .Child care home staff constructs situations for children to meet with parents as often as possible, activate and support communication with the relatives and the loved ones of the ward. The external resources are searched to solve the problems of the wards: children are incorporated into foster families, stimulate foster families to take care of the wards for weekends or holidays, also wards visit the families of home care workers. However, the analysis of activities and experiences of care home staff revealed that not enough attention is paid to solve the problems of wards’ right to live in the family. According to the current situation, care home staff express concerns about the passivity of foster parents and indifference to their children. The care home staff recognizes that usually the one-way communication takes place with families. The employees of child care home dominate by promoting parents to visit their children, while parents remain passive. On the other hand, care home staff believe that solving child custody issues is not enough to provide material support to families of social risk or to record the facts about child neglect, as well as to distinguish it from the destructive social environment and to provide public care. Comments of the research suggest that while solving the questions of welfare of wards and their right to live in the family, it is necessary to improve the work with families that pass on their children’s care to the state custody. It is important to provide parents of wards social-psychological support, to involve them in educational work and solution of relationship problems between ward and his family also it is necessary to include a range of institutions that work with parents. Workers believe that parents need to be given impetus to reform and strengthen their self-confidence and their own capabilities to care of their child and take the responsibility; also it is necessary to encourage parents to get the children back and bring them up the family, to emphasize their importance and necessity to the child. While discussing the opportunities for wards to live in the family, care home staff emphasize the importance of short-term assistance and full care as well as the need to integrate wards into adequate families. It is considered that the integration of the wards into foster families increase the opportunities for children deprived of parental care to build successfully strong families and construct a family relationship. The care home staff agree that living in a care home, foster children form a distorted perception of the family. It is possible to notice the lack of perspective regarding the preparation of foster children and teenagers for their future family life because usually the solutions of problems are restricted to oral remarks or conversations in care homes. Workers of care home believe that the absence of a real family model for wards will impede them to build strong families in the future. Some of the most successful assumptions that could help to reduce rising number of child care institutions are: social assistance and support system in targeting prevention work; provision of services to families by encouraging parents to get the child back to a family; to ensure that social risk families could integrate into the labor market; education and social assistance programs that help to restore a positive family experience, thereby educating the orphans, that grew up in foster homes; education about a family life; the integration and preparation of children psychologically and educationally; taking care of the child’s, families morally and legally.

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Scannapieco, Maria, Rebecca L. Hegar, and Catherine McAlpine. "Kinship Care and Foster Care: A Comparison of Characteristics and Outcomes." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 78, no. 5 (October 1997): 480–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.817.

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The increase in children entering foster care, together with a range of other political, economic, and social factors, has helped fuel the newest phenomenon in the child welfare system–a substantial proportion of children in formal kinship care. Kinship care is defined as out-of-home placement with relatives of children who are in the custody of state and local child welfare agencies. The authors present a review of previous research and report on a study that examined differences and similarities between kinship and traditional foster care in Baltimore County, Maryland, a suburban county that surrounds the city of Baltimore. This study supports many earlier conclusions concerning kinship care, such as children remain in care longer, caregivers are primarily African American, and services provided by kin are less extensive than those provided by traditional foster parents.

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Zimina, Ekaterina Viktorovna, and Ol'ga Gennad'evna Sedykh. "Implementation of the alternative form of social service “foster home or senior citizens” in Irkutsk Region: empirical study of the problem." Социодинамика, no. 11 (November 2021): 72–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-7144.2021.11.36959.

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The object of this research is the senior citizens, who are the objects of close attention of the corresponding government bodies, institutions of social and medical care, nonprofit organizations, and social entrepreneurs. It is revealed that despite joint efforts of the government and society aimed at maintaining the quality of their lives, senior citizens, for various reasons, often find themselves lonely, deprived of the care of their families. Therefore, the subject of this research is the alternative form of social service for senior citizens – foster home. The article examines the social, economic, psychological, and sociological aspects of implementation of such service. Special attention is given to the concept of foster home for senior citizens, as a form of organization of life, which implies sharing living space and household of citizens who concluded a foster home agreement. The article explores such aspects as the procedure for creating foster families, basic statistical data, regional peculiarities, social and economic effectiveness. The studied indicators reveal the factors that impede the creation of more foster homes. The authors’ special contribution lies in systematization of the key indicators of social effectiveness of foster homes: improvement of psychological state of senior citizens, mending family relationships, joint overcoming of different household problems, mutual respect and help, living in a home environment, and revival of the traditions of family and community care for older generation.

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Blythe, Stacy, Kath Peters, Emma Elcombe, Elaine Burns, and Karleen Gribble. "Australian Foster Carers’ Views and Concerns Regarding Maternal Drug Use and the Safety of Breastmilk." Children 8, no. 4 (April 7, 2021): 284. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children8040284.

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Parental substance misuse and mental health issues are major factors associated with infant placement into out-of-home care. Such placements may result in disruption and/or cessation of breastfeeding. Provision of breastmilk to infants in out-of-home care (OOHC) is desirable in terms of infant health and development, and also in supporting maternal caregiving. However, little is known about how breastfeeding is supported for infants in out-of-home care. This study used an online survey to explore the facilitation of breastfeeding in the context of OOHC and foster carers’ management of expressed breastmilk (EBM). Foster carers were generally open to the idea of maternal breastfeeding and infants in their care receiving EBM from their mothers. However, the majority of respondents expressed concern regarding the safety of EBM for infant consumption due to the possibility of harmful substances in the milk. Concerns regarding the safety of handling EBM were also prevalent. These concerns caused foster carers to discard EBM. Findings suggest foster carers’ may lack knowledge related to maternal substance use and breastmilk. Better integration between health care and social service systems, where the voices of mothers, foster carers and child protection workers are heard, is necessary to develop solutions enabling infants living in OOHC access to their mother’s breastmilk.

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Runyan, Desmond K., and Carolyn L. Gould. "Foster Care for Child Maltreatment. II. Impact on School Performance." Pediatrics 76, no. 5 (November 1, 1985): 841–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.76.5.841.

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At least 150,000 children currently reside in foster care in the United States because of child maltreatment. Nearly 15% of all confirmed maltreatment reports record foster care as one of the acute interventions. Yet, the impact of foster care has been largely unexamined. We conducted a historical cohort study of the impact of foster care on subsequent school performances for 114 children placed in foster care because of maltreatment. A comparison cohort was constituted of 106 maltreated children who were similar in age, race, sex, and year of diagnosis but who were left in their homes after report. School records were reviewed for 96 of the foster care children and 69 of the home care children. School attendance had improved for both groups at the time of follow-up nearly 8 years later. Children in school at the time of report who were then placed in foster care missed an average of 15.6% of the school year prior to the report compared with missing only 3.48% of the most recent school year. The children from the comparison group missed an average of 8.5% of the school year prior to their index maltreatment report and 7.2% of their most recent year in school. Forty-four percent of the foster care group achieved average or above average grades on follow-up compared with the passing rate for the home care group of 32% (P = .17). The foster care children were more likely to receive special education services. Overall, both groups were doing poor work in school an average of 8 years after maltreatment report. There appears to be no evidence for a significant rehabilitative effect of foster care as measured by subsequent school performance.

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Fischer, Robert L., and E. B. Attah. "City Kids in the Wilderness: A Pilot-Test of Outward Bound for Foster Care Group Home Youth." Journal of Experiential Education 24, no. 2 (June 2001): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/105382590102400208.

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Children in urban foster care settings, rarely have the opportunity to participate in adventure-based wilderness experiences, such as Outward Bound. This paper describes the use of a seven-day Outward Bound experience with 23 youth from four foster care group homes in Atlanta, Georgia. The effort examines data collected before and after the program documenting the perspectives of the youth, their foster parents, and their foster care workers in regard to the impacts on the youth. The research highlights the difficulties of evaluating a field-based experience, and provides data that illustrates the potential effects of Outward Bound on youth in group-home care. Further research is needed to fully demonstrate the effects of such efforts and to identify how to best tailor the experience to the needs of youth in urban foster care settings.

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Gross, Max, and E. Jason Baron. "Temporary Stays and Persistent Gains: The Causal Effects of Foster Care." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14, no. 2 (April 1, 2022): 170–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.20200204.

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Six percent of children in the United States enter foster care by age 18. We estimate the effects of foster care on children's outcomes by exploiting the quasi-random assignment of child welfare investigators in Michigan. We find that foster care improved children's safety and educational outcomes. Gains emerged after children exited the foster system when most were reunified with their birth parents, suggesting that improvements made by their parents were an important mechanism. These results indicate that safely reducing the use of foster care, a goal of recent federal legislation, requires more effective in-home, prevention-focused efforts. (JEL H75, I21, J13, K42)

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Cooper, Genevieve. "Hospital in the Home in Victoria: Factors Influencing Allocation Decisions." Australian Journal of Primary Health 5, no. 1 (1999): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/py99007.

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There is a question surrounding the funding of Hospital in the Home (HITH) as to whether the allocation policy was driven by customer service preference or was largely a financial imperative. HITH has the capacity to increase the throughput and therefore the efficiency of acute care facilities which is attractive to Government and Health Service Managers. There is insufficient evidence to indicate that this is true in all circumstances. Hospital in the Home is a desirable and safe option for some clients. Hospital in the Home has the potential to provide a more cost effective mode of delivery of acute care than hospital facilities. However, there is a need for identification of which clients, with which conditions and care needs, will benefit from being part of a HITH program in emotional, health and financial terms. Health professionals are still grappling with the impact that HITH has on their roles and relationships with other health care providers. More qualitative and quantitative research needs to be undertaken to identify the best models of HITH in both organisational and financial tems, and its impact on the wellbeing of clients and carers.

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Petr, Christopher G. "Foster Care Independent Living Services: Youth Perspectives." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 89, no. 1 (January 2008): 100–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3714.

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Emerging adulthood is a phase in the life course recently identified by developmental theorists. For youth in foster care, recent federal legislation in the United States has engendered new programs, typically called independent living programs, to help them become successful adults. This qualitative study reports the findings of interviews with a diverse sample of 27 current and former foster youths in a Midwestern state, focusing on the quantity and quality of independent living services received. The youths reported hopeful expectations and plans for their futures, widespread support for postcustody benefit programs, mixed opinions about the utilization and effectiveness of existing independent living programs, significant educational delays associated with frequent placements while in out-of-home custody, and strong attachments to families of origin.

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Mehrotra, Chandra M., and Karl Kosloski. "Foster Care for Older Adults." Home Health Care Services Quarterly 12, no. 1 (May 6, 1991): 115–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j027v12n01_11.

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Ito, Kayoko. "The construction of the Foster family support model to prevent the cancellation of placement." Impact 2020, no. 9 (December 30, 2020): 51–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2020.9.51.

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In the majority of developed countries, children who are abused, neglected or cannot live with their parents for other reasons, are placed in foster homes. Japanese social foster care has traditionally been centred around institutional care. This led to the United Nations making recommendations for improvement and in response, Japan announced 'The Issues and Future Vision of Social Foster Care' in 2011 and a 'New Vision of Social Foster Care' to increase the foster parent placement rate in 2017. Professor Kayoko Ito, from the Faculty of Social Welfare and Education at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, has assembled a team of researchers to work on a project that seeks to build a system for supporting foster parents and promote home-based care by foster parents. The intention is that this system will eliminate the burden of raising a foster child and thereby reduce the incidence of giving up, resulting in an overall improvement in foster care in Japan.

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Cifre, Anthony, Jinu Kim, and Candice Alfano. "0078 Assessing Sleep Health in Children Recently Adopted from Foster Care." Sleep 45, Supplement_1 (May 25, 2022): A35—A36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsac079.076.

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Abstract Introduction An estimated 450,000 children were in the U.S. foster care system in 2019. Early adversity including maltreatment and/or neglect renders this vulnerable population at high risk for negative outcomes, both physical and psychological. Burgeoning evidence suggests that children in foster care develop high rates of sleep disruption. Sleep disruption is associated with negative life outcomes including heart disease, diabetes, and psychiatric disorders. However, there is still a lack of knowledge examining sleep health in children adopted from foster care. Methods Sleep quality and problems were examined among a sample of children adopted from foster care (n = 234) within the past two years, ages 4 to 11 years (M = 5.94, SD = 1.97). Caregivers across the US were invited to complete an anonymous Qualtrics survey via private Facebook groups for foster families. The Child Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) was completed by foster parents to assess child sleep problems (e.g., nightmares, bedwetting, snoring, etc.) and overall sleep quality. Caregivers endorsed sleep problems and frequency using responses “Never,” “Sometimes,” and “Usually; sleep quality was rated using a Likert scale from 1 = Very Poor to 10 = Excellent. Results Paired-samples t-test compared first month (i.e., when first arrived in the home) and current child sleep quality based on caregiver-report. Sleep quality showed significant improvement since arrival in the foster home; t(233) = 12.98, p < .001, d = 0.85. However, on the CSHQ, 99% of the sample scored above the clinical cutoff for this measure indicating elevated sleep problems. Conclusion Children adopted from foster care show some improvement in sleep quality after achieving permanency. However, these data suggest this population continues to experience clinical levels of sleep problems even after being adopted. Our results suggest a need for specialized intervention services targeting sleep health among children recently adopted from foster care. Support (If Any) None

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Järvinen, Margaretha, and Stine Tankred Luckow. "Sociological Ambivalence: Relationships between Birth Parents and Foster Parents." Sociology 54, no. 4 (January 17, 2020): 825–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038519896937.

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Inspired by Merton and Barber’s sociological theory on ambivalence, this article analyses ‘co-parenting’ between foster parents and birth parents as prototypes of ambivalent relationships; that is, relationships based on incompatible role requirements. This incompatibility is rooted in the conflicts between (a) the professional role of foster carers and their emotional involvement in the child in their care, and (b) the status of birth parents as ‘failed parents’ (from the perspective of the authorities) and their continuous aspirations to get their child home again. The article is based on qualitative interviews with foster parents and birth parents of children in foster care in Denmark. We show how the structural ambivalence is associated with difficulties, for both foster parents and birth parents, in translating the principle of ‘the best interest of the child’ into concrete practice in out-of-home placements.

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