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Established in 2011, Clark County Nevada’s Foster Kinship agency provides educational and supportive services to formal kinship caregivers of children without safe and stable parental homes. In 2019, Preston Management and Organizational Consulting was awarded a contract to evaluate Foster Kinship’s navigator program for formal families. The evaluation contract required the completion of two separate, but interrelated, empirically-based studies. The purpose of the initial qualitative evaluation was to determine Foster Kinship staff’s level of fidelity to its navigator program manual. The…
Kinship care – the care of children by relatives or friends of the family - represents a significant resource available for meeting the needs of girls and boys who are orphaned or otherwise live apart from their parents. 1 in 10 children worldwide are living in kinship care. In some countries, it is as high as 1 in 3. This makes it the most common type of care, after parental care. Kinship care can support the most vulnerable children in ordinary and crisis periods.
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Given the high rates of placement disruptions for teenagers, a need exists for resource parents (the collective term for foster, adoptive, kinship, and guardian caregivers) who are both willing and able to care for teenagers. In response to this need, we created Critical On-going Resource Family Education (CORE) Teen, a comprehensive foster parent training program designed to provide resource parents with the knowledge and skills to support teens in their care. A one-way repeated measures ANOVA compared the results from participants at the pretest (N=188), posttest (N=130), and…
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Background
Many looked after young people in Wales are cared for by foster or kinship carers, usually as a consequence of maltreatment or developmentally traumatising experiences within a family context. Confidence in Care is a pragmatic unblinded individually randomised controlled parallel group trial evaluating a training programme to improve foster carer self-efficacy, when compared to usual care.
Objective
To determine whether group-based training improves foster carer self-efficacy.
Participants and setting
Participants are foster carers, currently looking…
The goal of this case study is to demonstrate a working model of family-based care in Zambia which can produce a replicable framework that can be modified for other regions and circumstances. This paper seeks to shed light on positive outcomes when family-based care is prioritized. Drawing on over twenty years of experience in family-based care, Alliance for Children Everywhere seeks to share their experience in Zambia and support a transition to family-based care to other OVC organizations within Southern Africa and beyond.
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This article describes the development of two parenting groups – Nurturing Attachments (Golding, 2014) and Foundations for Attachment (Golding, 2017). Both programmes are informed by the Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) model developed by Dan Hughes in the USA (Hughes, 2011; …
Narrative and Dramatic Approaches to Children’s Life Story with Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families outlines narrative and dramatic approaches to improve vulnerable family relationships. It provides a model which offers new ways for parents to practise communicating with their children and develop positive relationships.
The book focuses on the ‘Theatre of Attachment’ model - a highly innovative approach which draws from a strong theoretical base to demonstrate the importance of narrative and dramatic play for sharing the children’s life history in the family home with their adoptive,…
Over seven million children from birth through age 5 receive child care in home-based child care (HBCC) settings, the most common form of nonparental child care in the United States. In its simplest form, HBCC is child care that is provided in a caregiver’s home by someone other than the child’s parent or primary caretaker. States and locales vary in the specific rules they set for regulation and/or licensing of these homes, including how many children a provider can care for without needing to be licensed.
Research shows that professional development can help child care providers…
In this two-part video, you’ll hear from Children in Families ABLE project practitioners, Sorn Sreyny and Lisa Yunker, as they share their experience of making family-based care in Cambodia inclusive for children with disabilities.
In part one, Sreyny and Lisa discuss their key learning with respect to supporting caregivers to care for children, including the importance of managing stress and expectations, developing trusting relationships and taking a whole family approach to support.
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In this two-part video, you’ll hear from Children in Families ABLE project practitioners, Sorn Sreyny and Lisa Yunker, as they share their experience of making family-based care in Cambodia inclusive for children with disabilities.
In part one, Sreyny and Lisa discuss their key learning with respect to supporting caregivers to care for children, including the importance of managing stress and expectations…