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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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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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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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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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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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T, Chaamili Swetha G., and V. Jaisre. "Foster Care Being a Second Home for Abandoned Children: An Analysis on Cathy Glass’s Saving Danny." International Journal of Membrane Science and Technology 10, no. 3 (October 31, 2023): 3028–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.15379/ijmst.v10i3.2952.
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This paper explores the role of foster care as a secondary home for abandoned children and its significance in fulfilling the developmental needs of these youngsters. As biological parents seek support, recovery, and therapy, foster care offers a secure refuge for children and adolescents. Abuse and neglect often necessitate the removal of children and teenagers from their homes, making it imperative to find a secure environment for them. Foster care serves as a refuge for children and teenagers in need, even though it might be challenging to perceive it as a stable environment at first glance. The act of uprooting children from their homes may seem unsettling, but for those who have experienced abuse or neglect, foster care offers a stable and supportive home setting. Foster families provide essential elements like education, meals, shelter, and access to healthcare, which these children may have lacked before entering foster care. This, in turn, positively impacts their physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Additionally, foster care can provide biological parents with an opportunity to focus on establishing a stable home environment where their children can eventually return. This research draws inspiration from Cathy Glass's "Saving Danny," a powerful narrative. Cathy Glass is a prolific author with a portfolio of 34 books, each of which offers valuable insights into the lives of children in foster care. Through the lens of Cathy's experiences as a foster carer, these stories shed light on the challenges these vulnerable children face and how a nurturing and loving environment can help them overcome these obstacles.
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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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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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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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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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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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Herring, David. "The Multiethnic Placement Act: Threat to Foster Child Safety and Well-being?" University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, no. 41.1 (2007): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.36646/mjlr.41.1.multiethnic.
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Despite the efforts of public officials to reduce the time children spend in foster care, many children live in foster homes for a substantial portion of their childhoods. In fact, a child placed in a foster home may remain in that home for an extended period, with a significant possibility of remaining there permanently. In light of this situation, the decision to place a child in a particular foster home is extremely important. The federal Multiethnic Placement Act ("MEPA ") significantly affects foster care placement decisions. This law expressly prohibits public child welfare agencies from delaying or denying a child's foster care or adoptive placement on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Federal officials have interpreted MEPA as barring public agencies from routinely and systematically considering race when placing children in particular foster homes. In other words, MEPA precludes these agencies from pursuing children's interests through a policy or practice of matching a child's race with that of his or her foster parent. To date, commentators who have examined MEPA have focused their attention on identifying and weighing the benefits and harms of transracial adoption for minority children and communities. As a consequence, they have not addressed the impact of MEPA on foster care placement decisions in any detail. In contrast, this Article examines foster care placement decisions. More specifically, this Article uses behavioral biology research on kinship cues and social psychology research on in-group favoritism to formulate a hypothesis that has implications for MEPA's prohibition on the routine consideration of race in making foster care placement decisions. Namely, children placed with non-kin, same-race foster parents are likely to be safer and healthier than children placed with non-kin, different-race foster parents. The Article calls for a test of this hypothesis, explains how such a test may proceed, and discusses possible implications for laws and policies that address race and foster care.
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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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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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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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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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Foley, Kristie, Lorand Ferencz, Cristian Meghea, Zoltan Abram, Melinda Pénzes, Andrea Fogarasi-Grenczer, Peter Balazs, and Lorand Schmidt. "Home- and Car-Based Rules in Foster Care Settings to Reduce Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Before and after Romanian National Clean Air Legislation." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, no. 8 (August 2, 2018): 1631. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15081631.
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Background: To evaluate changes in smoke free rules in the foster care system after the implementation of the Romanian national clean air law. Methods: A repeated cross-sectional, self-administered questionnaire among foster care employees (n = 599) was conducted in 58 foster care homes during 2014 (n = 295) and 51 homes during 2016 (n = 304). We estimated the absolute difference in the proportion of employees who stated that smoke free rules existed before and after national clean air legislation. Results: There was an absolute increase in 4 of 5 smoke free measures after the law: bans on non-cigarette tobacco products (n = 169 to 206, +10.6%), non-smoking on premises for adults (n = 142 to 202, +18.3%), and for children (n = 201 to 239, +10.3%), and no smoking in cars to transport children (n = 194 to 227, +9%). There was a significant increase in the perception of outdoor bans that prohibit employees from smoking on foster care home premises (AOR 2.24, 95% CI 1.14–4.38). The increase in the perception of indoor smoking bans did not change. Conclusion: The national law may have had a spillover influence by strengthening smoke free rules in unregulated spaces. Nonetheless, foster care home rules could be further enhanced, particularly in cars that transport children.
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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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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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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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Levy, Cari, Cari Levy, and Emily Whitfield. "Medical Foster Homes: Shifting Nursing Home Care to “Micro” Homes in the Community." Journal of the American Medical Directors Association 15, no. 3 (March 2014): B28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2013.12.075.
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Kim, Jisun, and Young Sun Joo. "Examining the predictors on welfare receipt among youth in out-of-home care: Using administrative data." Korean Council For Children's Rights 27, no. 4 (November 30, 2023): 679–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.21459/kccr.2023.27.4.679.
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Objectives: This study aims to examine the predictors on welfare receipt among youth in out-of-home care (youth preparing for independence) by using administrative data including the Social Welfare Facilities Information System and the Social Security Information System. Methods: The study analyzed 12,280 youth in out-of-home care, and the logistic regression models using Stata 15.0 was employed to examine the associations between sociodemographic characteristics, out-of-home care characteristics, and welfare receipt including self-reliance allowance, Child Development Account (Didim Seed Account), and the National Basic Livelihood Security benefits.
Results: First, the study found that the younger youth, who stayed for a longer period at out-of-home care, youth in foster care, youth with higher educational level, and unemployed youth were less likely to receive self-reliance allowance when compared to older, youth who stayed for a shorter period at out-of-home care, youth in childcare facilities, youth with lower education, and employed youth. Second, female, the older, youth who stayed shorter period at out-of-home care, youth in foster care, and youth with higher education level were less likely to open the Child Development Account when compared to male, the younger, youth who stayed for a longer period at out-of-home care, youth in childcare facilities and group homes, and youth with lower educational level. Third, male, the older, youth who stayed for a shorter period at out-of-home care, youth in foster care, youth with higher educational level, and employed youth were less likely to receive the Livelihood Benefits including medical and housing assistance when compared to female, the younger, youth who stayed for a longer period at out-of-home care, youth in childcare facilities, youth with lower educational level, and unemployed youth.
Conclusions: Based on the findings, the study suggests implications for promoting the use of welfare receipt among youth in out-of-home care.
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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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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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Pålsson, David, Tommy Lundström, and Marie Sallnäs. "Nya villkor för ett gammalt problem." Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift 29, no. 2 (January 12, 2023): 173–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/svt.2022.29.2.4612.
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New conditions for an old problem: foster care recruitment in an era of privatisation and professionalisation
Foster care is the most common intervention for children who are placed in out-of-home care. At the same time, there are recurrent discussions about difficulties in recruiting foster homes. The preconditions for recruitment have changed and today, there is an increased competition for foster homes between municipalities and private businesses, stricter requirements placed on foster parents and changes in the needs of children placed in care. The aim of the article is to analyse the recruitment of foster homes in light of these changed preconditions. Empirically, the article is based on a survey targeting Swedish municipalities. The findings show, that although a majority of the municipalities have employees particularly responsible for recruitment, small municipalities often lack such resources. Further on, almost three quarters of the municipalities state that it is difficult or very difficult to recruit foster homes. For example, answers to the survey’s open questions demonstrate that competition from other municipalities and private companies affects recruitment. Further on, the municipality’s reputation is considered an important factor for attracting new foster homes. Finally, it appears to be difficult for municipalities to recruit a varied supply of foster homes and, in particular, homes that can care for children with special needs. The findings are discussed in relation to previous international and Swedish research. Finally, suggestions regarding how recruitment may be improved are presented.
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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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Dr. Neelu Sharma and Sunil Kumar. "Self-Regulated Learning as Related to Academic Performance of Foster Care and Home Reared Children." Research Inspiration 8, no. II (March 30, 2023): 05–09. http://dx.doi.org/10.53724/inspiration/v8n2.04.
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The current study aims to investigate the association between self-regulated learning and academic achievement in foster care and home-reared children in order to expand on the findings of prior research on the same sample. In the current study, a correlation design tailed by a t-test was used, and the overall self-regulated learning is found significantly and positively associated with the academic performance of foster care and home-reared children, as well as found the significant difference between foster care and home reared children on their academic performance at three levels of overall self-regulated learning and its sub-factors.
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Farquharson, Kelly. "Promoting Early Literacy for a Child in Foster Care." Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups 2, no. 1 (January 2017): 117–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/persp2.sig1.117.
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Beginning first grade with limited literacy skills creates a disadvantage for academic success. Alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness, and oral language skills are crucial for age-appropriate performance within most first grade curricula. Home literacy environments can help to create positive literacy and language experiences, but many children do not have stable homes in which to learn, thrive, and feel safe. In this case study, background information is presented for a child who is currently in foster care and has weak early literacy skills. Assessment and intervention plans are reviewed and recommendations for the foster parent are provided.
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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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Lindley, Lisa C., and Elspeth M. Slayter. "Serious Illness and End-of-Life Quality for US Foster Children: A National Study." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 35, no. 12 (June 20, 2018): 1505–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909118782986.
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Background: Of the nearly 500 000 children in foster care, several hundred children die each year. Their quality of life at end of life is a matter of their foster care experience. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether serious illness was associated with foster care placement outcomes. Methods: US foster care data from 2005 to 2015 were used. Children who were younger than 18 years with residence in the United States were included. Serious illness (ie, physical health, mental/behavioral health, developmental disabilities) was measured via the foster care files. Two foster care placement outcomes were created (ie, type of placement, placement instability). Using multinomial and logistic regressions, the influence of serious illness on placement outcomes was evaluated while controlling for demographic, geographic, prior trauma, and foster care support characteristics. Results: Fifty-seven percent of the children were placed with nonrelatives, 27% in group homes/institutions, and 17% with relatives. Twenty-eight percent experienced placement instability. Serious illness was significantly associated with nonrelative (relative risk ratio [RRR] = 1.97; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.58-2.45) and group home/institution placement (RRR = 2.67; 95% CI = 2.09-3.40). Serious illness was not significantly related to placement instability. Children with serious illness were no more likely than their peers to experience multiple foster care placements. Conclusions: Foster care youth at end of life were more likely to be placed with nonrelatives or in group homes/institutions. They also did not experience the disruption and stress of being moved to multiple foster homes while seriously ill.
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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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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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McSherry, Dominic, and Montserrat Fargas Malet. "Family Foster Care: Let's Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater." Children Australia 42, no. 3 (July 5, 2017): 217–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2017.23.
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In 2014, an article written by Dr Frank Ainsworth and Patricia Hansen was published in Children Australia entitled ‘Family foster care: Can it survive the evidence?’ The basic premise of the article was that evidence indicates family foster care either doesn't change the likelihood of positive outcomes for children, or makes it more difficult for positive outcomes to be achieved. Essentially, the view was that foster care is a risk to children in much the same way as there is a risk for children remaining at home with abusive or neglectful parents. As such, the authors stated that there should be a reduction in the use of family foster care, and increased efforts to keep children at home with supports. This article only came to our attention recently, and we had some issues with the conclusions that were drawn by the authors, particularly in terms of the evidence that is used to support their proposition. We were kindly offered an opportunity by the journal editors to submit this responding article.
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MILAN, STEPHANIE E., and ELLEN E. PINDERHUGHES. "Factors influencing maltreated children's early adjustment in foster care." Development and Psychopathology 12, no. 1 (March 2000): 63–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400001048.
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Internal representations of self and primary attachment figures may be one mechanism by which maltreatment affects children's interpersonal behavior and relationships with others. Research on the continuity and influence of maltreated children's attachment representations, however, has not included youngsters removed from abusive or neglectful home environments. This paper examines the influence of maltreated children's maternal and self-representations on subsequent relationships with foster mothers and behavioral adjustment in foster care. Participants included 32 children, ages 9–13 years, who entered foster placement for the first time after a sustained relationship with a maltreating biological mother. Upon initially entering foster care, children's maternal and self-representations were significantly related to each other and to severity of maltreatment history but not to other factors believed to influence the quality of parent–child relationship (e.g., maternal mental health, partner stability). In addition, these representations significantly predicted children's subsequent views of their relationships with foster mothers. Finally, children's behavior in their foster homes was associated with maltreatment severity, internal representations assessed at entry into foster care, and to concurrent perceptions of their new foster mothers. These findings advance our understanding of foster placement's role in maltreated children's development and provide preliminary insight into the processes associated with the formation of potentially compensatory relationships.
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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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Jones, Jacqueline, Leah M. Haverhals, Chelsea E. Manheim, and Cari Levy. "Fostering Excellence: An Examination of High-Enrollment VHA Medical Foster Home Programs." Home Health Care Management & Practice 30, no. 1 (October 13, 2017): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1084822317736795.
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This qualitative study aimed to assist the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) to efficiently target recruitment into VHA Medical Foster Homes (MFHs) by understanding how high-enrollment MFH (HE-MFH) program attributes optimized MFH enrollment. We used an emergent exploratory design to study 3 HE-MFH programs across the United States. Data were collected from August 2013 through June 2014 through individual in-person and phone interviews and in-person focus group discussions with 39 MFH care providers. Three main themes emerged as essential for optimizing HE-MFH program enrollment: (1) alignment of right caregiver, right home, and right Veteran; (2) care practices that support caregiver, Veteran, and home-based primary care (HBPC); and (3) workplace practices and processes that demonstrate support of the MFH coordinator role by facility leadership and the HBPC team.
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Ainsworth, Frank, and Patricia Hansen. "Programs for high needs children and young people: Group homes are not enough." Children Australia 33, no. 2 (2008): 41–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000201.
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Recently the Department of Community Services in New South Wales and the Department for Child Safety in Queensland have both released information about funding and the award of contracts for group homes and other residential services. In addition, in the 2008 discussion about out-of-home care at the Wood Commission of Inquiry into the Child Protection Services in New South Wales, group homes were discussed in terms of them being less demanding environments than foster care. The view presented was that group homes are appropriate for some young people who are either unsuitable for foster care or who want a less intimate setting than that provided by foster care. This article argues that group homes or residential programs, against the New South Wales and Queensland descriptions, fail to respond to the need for quality residential programs for children and youth. This is partly due to the low level of training for staff in group homes and high staff turnover.
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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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Hansen, Patricia, and Frank Ainsworth. "Children in out-of-home care: What drives the increase in admissions and how to make a change." Children Australia 33, no. 4 (2008): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000390.
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In Australia the number of children removed from birth parents and admitted to State care, i.e. foster care, kinship care, other home-based care, group homes or residential care, continues to rise. Because the number of foster carers (the preferred care option after kinship care) has fallen and the recruitment of new carers has become more difficult, this rise in admissions to care is a critical issue. This paper explores those factors that drive the increase in the number of children that are taken into State care and makes suggestions about how this trend might be reversed. New South Wales is used as the example for this purpose although the points made are applicable in other States and Territories.
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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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Horvat, Gordana, Suzana Tomašević, and Ana Lozina. "Institutional support in alternative care: Foster care and COVID-19 pandemics." Zbornik radova Pravnog fakulteta Nis 61, no. 97 (2022): 99–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/zrpfn1-40496.
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated new challenges in the work of social welfare institutions, particularly in the area of providing support in alternative forms of care, such as foster care. The need for support during the pandemic was very significant and necessary because foster families fall into the category of vulnerable groups, especially because they provide care for children displaced from their primary (biological) family. In addition to insufficient institutional support during the pandemic, communication with primary families was aggravated, which has had a negative impact on foster children and their needs. The Faculty of Law in Osijek is a partner institution in the Project "Zajedno do doma" (Foster Home for Children), funded by the EU and organized by the World Youth Federation Croatia. For the project purposes, a survey on institutional support to foster families was conducted from August to October 2021. The collected data will be presented and analyzed in this paper, in order to identify the needs of foster families, the relevant forms of institutional support, and the difficulties that foster families experience in case of insufficient support. This pilot research on the attitudes of experts and foster careers is a quantitative basis for further qualitative research on foster care in direct contact with foster carers. Based on this research, the authors have developed foster care guidelines, with special emphasis on the challenges of providing support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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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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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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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