Download or read book A Study of Foster Care Placement Stability Within African American Foster Families in San Francisco written by Linda Sue Redd and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Placement Stability and Permanence for Children Entering Foster Care as Infants written by Barbara Needell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care Study written by Susan Poulos and published by Research Department, Children's Aid Society of Vancouver. This book was released on 1972 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Children in Foster Care HHS and Congressional Actions Could Help Reduce Proportion in Care written by Kay Brown and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significantly greater proportion of African American children are in foster care than children of other races and ethnicities relative to their share of the general population. Given this situation, this report analyzes the: (1) major factors influencing their proportion in foster care; (2) strategies states and localities have implemented that appear promising; and (3) ways in which fed. policies may have influenced the proportion of African American children in foster care. This testimony is based on a report issued in July 2007 which included a nationwide survey; a review of research and policies; state site visits; analyses of child welfare data; and interviews with researchers, HHS officials, and other experts. It includes updates where possible. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Same Situation Different Outcomes written by Lilian Daisy Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For several decades researchers have discussed the significance of structural and cultural factors influencing child and family well-being. Factors such as parental attitudes and behaviors, socioeconomic status, household structure, among others, are a large part of understanding family outcomes. These factors have also been found to play a role in the overrepresentation of certain racial and ethnic groups in the child welfare system. In this dissertation, I explore the structural and cultural processes that influence the risk factors which result in the disproportionate placement of racial and ethnic minority children in the child welfare system. These processes have been categorized as the following risk factors: (a) individual and family, (b) community, and (c) systemic or organizational risk. However, researchers have not fully explored these risk factors within the spectrum of a culture-structure nexus; I focus on individual, family, and community risk factors in this research. Culture and social structure are relevant to the debate about disproportionality because national-, state-, and county-level data often reveal that families who are more likely involved in the child welfare system are those living in poverty and/or are of minority status who face many social problems that contribute to their continued disadvantaged position in American society. I focus on black families since research indicates that there is a disproportionate involvement of African American children in foster care compared to their presence in the general population. Using in-depth interviews, ethnographic observations, the comparative case method, and state-level (i.e, New York) data, I investigate the forces that contribute to the high relative rate of removal of biological children from African American homes resulting in out-of-home placement in Erie County, New York. Results suggest that both culture and structure are important in understanding variations in outcomes of the urban poor. Indeed, the problem of the placement of children into foster care have both structural and cultural origins that work in conjunction with each other but structural factors are precursors to cultural ones. Families who experienced placement of their children into foster care exhibited a lack of strong, intimate social networks compared to families who did not experience placement of their children. Moreover, my research indicates that when social relationships and social networks are not robust and fully functioning, disadvantage for parents is often a result. This disadvantage may be in the form of risk factors such as neglect and substance and physical abuse where parenting skills and techniques are not developed, taught, or observed; they may even be totally absent. I also find evidence of the social reproduction of foster care placement from one generation to the next but that the transmission of a certain type of habitus, cultural capital, and agency can help mitigate against this occurrence. In this study, I raise important methodological, theoretical, and policy issues.
Download or read book Foster Care in America written by Christina G. Villegas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's foster care system has a noble goal—to care for children that for various reasons can no longer be cared for by their families—but years of inattention and inadequate funding have left many foster youth in a precarious state. This resource provides a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the American foster care system. Areas of coverage include the scaffolding of foster care systems in the various states (each of which operate their own unique systems through their social service agencies); conditions under which children are taken out of their families of origin and placed in foster care; the experiences of both young children and older teens in foster homes; challenges for foster children who "age out" of the system; and proposals to reform and improve foster care across the nation. Geared for students, this book contains chapters devoted to the background and history of foster care in America; the systems's problems, controversies, and solutions; original essay contributions exploring various facets of the system; profiles of leading foster care activists and organizations; governmental data and excerpts of primary documents on the topic; and an annotated list of important books, scholarly journals, and nonprint sources for further research. It closes with a detailed chronology, glossary of terms, and subject index.
Download or read book Foster Care Placement Stability instability written by Rudy Raymond Rosas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Will Care when Parents Can t written by National Black Child Development Institute and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Kinship Foster Parents Perceptions of Kinship Foster Care written by Laura Sue Boisen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reducing Placement Instability in Family Foster Care written by Astra Maestas and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Relative Stability Examining the Role of Placement with Relatives and Race ethnicity in Predicting Foster Care Placement Stability written by Jeeyeon Hong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarship on child welfare has found placement instability to be a major risk for foster youths’ later development and well-being. However, there have been mixed findings regarding the effect of placement type (relative or non-relative foster homes) on placement instability. Further, little is understood about how the child’s race/ethnicity shapes this relationship. To fill this knowledge gap, the present study seeks to answer the following research questions: (1) How does placement stability rate differ between children in relative care versus non-relative care? (2) How does placement stability rate differ across foster children’s race/ethnicity? (3) How does the placement type interact with the relationship between child’s race/ethnicity and stability rate? This study used nationally representative data from the 2018 Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS). T-test and logistic regression results confirm that both placement type and child’s race/ethnicity are significant predictors of placement instability. Furthermore, significant interaction effects between the child’s race/ethnicity and placement type were found. These findings suggest that stability rate significantly differs by child’s different racial/ethnic group membership as well as the type of placement setting. We also found that placement with relatives is a significant moderator in the relationship between child’s race/ethnicity and placement stability. Future research should further examine the relationship between child’s race/ethnicity, placement with relatives, and placement stability to inform culturally relevant child welfare practices.
Download or read book Psychological Adjustment of Same Race and Transracially Placed African American Foster Children and Racial Socialization Practices of Foster Parents written by Hilda Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foster Care Crisis written by Patrick Almond Curtis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of current state of foster care
Download or read book Characteristics of Foster Families and Children Impacting Placement Stability written by Marissa O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many foster children experience numerous placements while in out-of-home care; some up to fifteen in an 18 month period (Newton, Litrownik, & Landsverk, 2000). Placement stability is important for children to find permanent families, and for social, emotional and educational development of children. This study used the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) data set to examine foster child and caregiver characteristics, and the caregiver-child relationship as a predictor of placement stability in the long term foster care general sample. Logistic regression was performed with the Complex Samples add-on to appropriately weight the NSCAW sampling. Children who were placed in foster homes or kinship homes and who had not been returned home at the Wave 3 interview were included in the study. The sample consisting of 562 children was divided into three groups based on age: Early Group 1, childhood ages 1to 5, group 1;Group 2, Middle childhood ages 6 to 10, group 2; Group 3, Adolescence ages 11 to 18, group 3. Results are consistent with previous studies in that children in early childhood and middle childhood who were placed in foster homes were 83% and 87% less likely to achieve placement stability than children in kinship homes, respectively. In early childhood, each additional household member reduced the odds of achieving placement stability by 35%. The caregiver-child relationship did not predict placement stability.
Download or read book Intersections written by Sonia J. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African-American girls are entering foster care and experiencing longer stays in a system that was not intended to facilitate adolescents transitioning into adulthood. For African American adolescent girls many remain in care indefinitely and move from one temporary foster home, group home and institution to another, with little stability or preparation for the future. Although the Adoption and Safe Families Act (AFSA) of 1994 and other policy reforms were designed to guide the temporary placement of children in foster care, this has not been the case, particularly for African American females. Upon entrance into foster care, African American adolescent females face many challenges. These include poor performance in school, multiple placements, social-emotional/mental health issues-separation from their families, loss/abandonment, and other related traumas. The purpose of this study is to enhance knowledge of the experiences of African- American adolescent females simultaneously involved in the educational and foster care system and the meaning of their experiences as they transition into womanhood. The aim of this study is to understand the complexities faced by a vulnerable population--African- American adolescent females and how they make meaning of their experience while participating in both institutions of care.
Download or read book Assessing the Long term Effects of Foster Care written by Thomas Patrick McDonald and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What lasting impact has foster care had on the adult lives of former foster children? Noting how trends in expectations and outcomes in foster care have changed over the past 30 years, this comprehensive and critical review of the impact foster care has had on children provides a framework for the critical assessment of trends in programs and policies; identifies what is known and not known concerning the impact of foster care; and offers recommendations for future data collection and research, as well as program and policy development. A welcome addition to the literature for program administrators, policymakers, and researchers in the child welfare field.
Download or read book Parental Drug Abuse and African American Children in Foster Care written by Clarice Walker and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
