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Author : Kyra Mosel Hewitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Factors in Foster Care Placement Success written by Kyra Mosel Hewitt and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicola M. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Foster Care Factors which Predict Placement Success for Young People Aged 12-18 Years written by Nicola M. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James A. Walsh
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Quality Care for Tough Kids written by James A. Walsh and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1990 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on three comprehensive studies of underachieving children in The Casey Family Program, this important work uncovers those factors that influence stable foster placements through the extensive use of correlational methods, including personal and demographic characteristics; child's responses to threat; family history; serious risk factors; placement history and present situation; foster family characteristics; placement breakdown factors; and caseworker's orientation.
Author : Nicola M. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Foster Care Factors which Predict Placement Success for Young People Aged 12-18 Years written by Nicola M. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathanael J. Okpych
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978809182
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Climbing a Broken Ladder written by Nathanael J. Okpych and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although foster youth have college aspirations similar to their peers, fewer than one in ten ultimately complete a two-year or four-year college degree. What are the major factors that influence their chances of succeeding? Climbing a Broken Ladder advances our knowledge of what can be done to improve college outcomes for a student group that has largely remained invisible in higher education. Drawing on data from one of the most extensive studies of young people in foster care, Nathanael J. Okpych examines a wide range of factors that contribute to the chances that foster youth enroll in college, persist in college, and ultimately complete a degree. Okpych also investigates how early trauma affects later college outcomes, as well as the impact of a significant child welfare policy that extends the age limit of foster care. The book concludes with data-driven and concrete recommendations for policy and practice to get more foster youth into and through college.
Author : National Foster Parent Assoc.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101024658
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Success as a Foster Parent written by National Foster Parent Assoc. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change a child's life! Reap the rewards of becoming a foster parent. Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year—and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted people willing to become foster parents. But what does it take to become a foster parent? How does one begin? What about your own family? What does it cost? Success as a Foster Parent has the answers to these basic questions and much more. Written by Rachel Greene Baldino, MSW, in association with the National Foster Parent Association, it is the first and only commercially available book to clearly explain the process of becoming a foster parent. Readers will learn: • The questions to ask before making the decision to be a foster caregiver • How to research local state and private agencies • The financial cost and the compensation • The challenges involved in caring for children from infants to teens, including physically- and psychologically-challenged kids • Issues relating to schools, birth parents, supervisory visits, vacations, and dozens of other factors • All about adoption In addition to concrete information, there are dozens of moving stories drawn from interviews with veteran foster parents and tips about caregiving.
Author : R. A. Parker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000437779
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Decision in Child Care written by R. A. Parker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-07 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responsible decisions are continually being made in social work. In particular the decision to place a child in a foster home can have far-reaching consequences for their welfare and it is vital that we make the best possible choice on their behalf. Although in the 1960s thousands of children were boarded out every year no systematic attempt had yet been made to summarize this experience as a guide for practice. Thus important decisions lacked the help which past experience could provide. Originally published in 1966, this study assembled the past experience of foster care in one area, analysed it and presented it in such a way that predictions could be made of the outcome of a potential placement. At the time it offered an important contribution to the task of providing the best possible care for children separated from their own families. Today it can be read in its historical context.
Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1843101734
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Foster Placements written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on exhaustive research, the authors discuss the primary concerns in foster placement planning. By monitoring and describing the individual characteristics of the child within their placement, we are able to discover what types of support are most beneficial.
Author : Gillian Schofield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873868935
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (689 download)
Download or read book Growing Up in Foster Care written by Gillian Schofield and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term foster care is one of the best kept secrets of the child care system. It is rarely mentioned as a positive option yet there is a significant group of vulnerable looked after children for whom growing up in a long-term foster family is their best chance of a secure family life. this new study looks at a group of 58 children under the age of 12 recently placed in long-term foster families. It provides a fascinating insight into their lives, their birth families, foster families and the system of social work practice that will define their future.
Author : Peter J. Pecora
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195175913
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book What Works in Foster Care? written by Peter J. Pecora and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow up. Key investments in highly trained staff, low caseloads and robust complementary services can dramatically reduce rates of mental disorders and substance abuse. This book offers a model foster care programme.
Author : James Barber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134385242
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Children in Foster Care written by James Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researchers, practitioners, journalists and politicians increasingly recognise that foster care throughout the world is in a state of crisis. There are more and more children needing care and, as residential alternatives dry up, more of these children are being assigned to foster families. This book reports the major findings of a two-year longitudinal study of 235 such children who entered the foster care system in Southern Australia between 1998 and 1999. As well as examining the changing policy context of children's services, the book documents the psychosocial outcomes for these children, their feedback on their experiences of care, and the views of their social workers and carers. In the process, the book examines some cherished beliefs about foster care policy and sheds new light on them. The research reveals that while most children do quite well in foster care up to the two-year point, there is a worrying amount of placement instability at a time when the concentration of emotionally troubled children in care is increasing throughout the western world. Although, surprisingly, placement instability does not appear to produce psychosocial impairment for a period of up to eight months in care, it has an extreme effect on children who are moved from placement to placement because no carer will tolerate their behaviour. These children are consigned to a life of distribution and emotional upheaval because of the lack of alternative forms of care. Another unexpected finding of the research is that increasing the rate of parental contact achieves little or nothing in relation to the likelihood of family reunification. As child welfare increasingly enters a world of research-based practice, Children in Foster Care provides some much needed hard evidence of how foster care policy and practice can be improved.
Author : L. Trevor Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Factors Associated with the Placement of Children Into Foster Care written by L. Trevor Grant and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rita A. Williams-Washington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Contributing Factors to Successful Emancipated Foster Youth written by Rita A. Williams-Washington and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children in foster care turn 18, they are, for the most part, on their own. They are "called emancipated"; they are legally adults free from the foster care system. But many leave foster care with no job or income, few educational prospects and little emotional support or community connections. There is a lack of knowledge regarding the effectiveness of services. Another challenge to improving policy and practice directed towards foster youth transitions to adulthood is the poor knowledge base supporting existing interventions. The vast majority of the existing research has relied upon caseworker ratings, self-reporting by foster parents, and identity information related to placement disruptions and placement success. Researchers must take into account the important role that foster youth perception plays in determining the child's goal and success or failure of placement. From an Interpretive Perspective this research focused on the concept of resiliency. This study evaluated the perceptions of successful independent young adults regarding their life experience after foster care focused on their personal strengths; resiliency.
Author : Wilmary Rodríguez Checo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Fostering Success written by Wilmary Rodríguez Checo and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1853 the foster care system was created to provide a stable home for the 30,000 homeless and neglected children wandering in NYC. Although the foster care system has a laudable mission-to provide loving homes for neglected and abused children-there are many issues in the system holding foster youth back from succeeding. Several studies have shown that when compared to the general population, foster youth exhibit lower rates of mental well-being, lower rates of educational attainment, and higher rates of unemployment. Despite these problematic findings, little research has been conducted examining the factors that contribute to the overall lack of mental well-being and education and employment outcomes (Courtney et al., 2005). The current study used a survey (N=34) to investigate some of the factors that contribute to the success of past and present NYC foster youth aged 21 and older. Success was assessed in two ways: 1) with scales that measured self-reported mental well-being and life satisfaction, and 2) with self-reported outcomes in educational achievement and employment. The main hypotheses of this study were that the number of placements and amount of time a youth spends in foster care would be negatively correlated with success. The results revealed no significant correlation between the amount of time a youth spends in foster care and success. However, the number of placements that a foster youth experienced showed a significant negative correlation with mental well-being, life satisfaction, and education outcomes, though not employment outcomes. These findings suggest that more time spent in the foster system does not negatively impact success; however, higher numbers of placements does have a negative impact on success, perhaps due to the instability caused by frequent changes of communities, homes, and schools.
Author : Joanna M. Haight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (786 download)
Download or read book Factors Contributing to the Success Or Failure of Foster Home Placement written by Joanna M. Haight and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Sinclair
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846421373
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Fostering Now written by Ian Sinclair and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2005-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * What are the consequences of fostering for children, their carers and their birth families? * What are the best ways of recruiting, retaining and supporting foster carers? * What are the most important elements of a successful placement? * Can foster care offer a permanent alternative to care at home? Fostering Now brings together authoritative research on foster care in the UK. It provides a succinct overview of a wide range of research projects and highlights the main implications for policymakers and all professionals involved in the fostering process. Drawing on the varied experiences and views of foster children, social workers, foster carers and parents, this book looks at how placement outcomes are influenced by factors such as foster carers' parenting styles, contact with the child's own parents, and the child's gender, ethnicity, age and physical and emotional health. Other important areas examined include care given by relatives, the effects of foster care on education, and what happens to foster children when they return home. Fostering Now identifies the most significant challenges currently faced by foster care and draws out the key messages for policy and practice. It offers important insights into the state of foster care today, and suggests how it can be improved in future. This book is essential reading for social workers, policy makers, academics and foster carers.
Author : Rebecca L. Hegar
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195109405
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Kinship Foster Care written by Rebecca L. Hegar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KINSHIP FOSTER CARE: POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH assembles the thinking and research of experts from several professional fields concerning what has become the fastest growing type of substitute care for children in state custody. The editors have contributed the initial and concluding chapters of the book and the lead chapter in each of its three sections.
