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A growing body of research has begun to explore youth’s experiences of moving multiple placements in foster care and the impact of these transitions that lasts into adulthood. However, knowledge remains extremely limited regarding foster youth/alumni’s recommendations for improving the process of placement moves. This qualitative research study examined foster care alumni’s advice for youth in care, caregivers, and child welfare caseworkers on how to best handle placements moves. Results indicated that participants had a number of recommendations to help mitigate the emotional…
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Background
Many children who are removed from a dangerous or neglectful home and placed in state custody subsequently experience additional disruptions while in custody, which can compound the effects of ongoing stress and instability. As such, placement stability has been identified as a critical objective and a key indicator of success for children residing in substitutive care.
Objective
To examine the utility of child protective services data in identifying predictors of placement disruption.
Participants and setting
The current study examined data from youth in…
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This research examined the impact of individual and relational characteristics of foster parents on permanency outcomes for children in care. Previous research has focused on child and case characteristics. The sample consisted of 233 foster parents from the public child welfare system surveyed at the end of a training. The results of the surveys showed that couple relationship quality and altruism were predictive of reunification of foster children with biological parent. The significant predictors of placement in a residential facility were age, education, and avoidant…
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The present study is the largest and most rigorous study to date on the effects of being appointed a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) on permanency outcomes of children in foster care. The intent-to-treat study accounts for selection bias by applying inverse probability weighting to logistic and sequential logistic regressions in a large sample of children in foster care in the state of Texas (N = 31,754). Overall, children appointed a CASA have significantly lower odds than children without a CASA of achieving permanency. They have lower odds of being…
This brief from the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition in the United States provides an overview of the 30 Days to Family® program, an intense, short-term intervention developed by the Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition to: 1) increase the number of children placed with relatives/kin at the time they enter the foster care system; and 2) ensure natural and community supports are in place to promote stability for the child. The program model features two major elements: family finding and family support interventions.
A rigorous, independent study was commissioned to test the…
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Many foster youth do not exit care for a permanency option and remain in foster care until they age out or are emancipated. Research findings have described the alarming circumstances of these former foster children’s adaptation to emerging adulthood. Public policy over the past three decades has sought various means of improving outcomes for these former foster youth. This review examines the legislative history leading up to extended care, the research on youth leaving foster care, youth preferences for extended care, the competition of extended care with…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
As part of its Waiver strategy, New York City reduced caseworker caseloads within the network of private agencies that provide foster care services on behalf of New York’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), with the expectation that doing so would expedite permanency.
For the evaluation, we asked whether the rate of exit to permanency increased for children whose time in care coincided with when private agencies reached the new caseload target.
In sum, we found that exit rates increased by 9 percent in the years following implementation of the caseload…
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Background
A significant proportion of children placed in out of-home care experience placement disruptions in the United States. Placement instability has deleterious effects on children’s well-being.
Objectives
(a) To measure the time-to-initial placement change in different types of settings, including non-relative foster homes, kinship care, residential treatment centers (RTC),…
African American children continue to be overrepresented in the population of children in out of home care and in the population of children waiting to be adopted in the nation’s child welfare system. In 2017, while African American children accounted for 14% of the U.S. child population, 100,607 or 23% of the 442,995 children in care were African American, as were 27,388 (22%) of the 123,437 children waiting to be adopted (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2018). In addition, while 49% (28,868) of those adopted with public agency assistance were White, only 17% (10,332) were…
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In child welfare, family meeting models are an important social innovation designed to develop individualized case plans through a family-centered and collaborative approach. Effective teamwork and parent engagement are key elements of family meetings. Previous studies report mixed results about the practical impacts of family meetings, perhaps due to a failure to elucidate how the key elements of the models are associated with the intended outcomes. This study utilized administrative data that reviewed child welfare cases in a Midwestern state in the U.S. to examine interactions…