Download or read book Investigating the Impact of Sibling Foster Care on Placement Stability written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation provides additional evidence concerning the protective nature of kinship care and sibling co-placement on reducing the odds of experiencing a foster care placement change, and provides support for practices and policies prioritizing kinship care and the co-placement of siblings when making substitute care placement decisions. Future studies of siblings in foster care should explore the experiences of youth across the different forms of foster care living composition, examine the relationship between placement stability and permanency outcomes, and examine the relationship between placement stability, permanency, and child well-being.
Download or read book Effects of Sibling Placements on Stability and Permanency in Foster Care written by Andrea Trinidad Lomeli and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to assess overall placement stability and permanency of children in joint or separate sibling placements within the San Bernardino County Department of Children and Family Services. The purpose of child welfare agencies is the safety, protection, and permanency of children and the promotion of child and family well-being. Therefore, it is important to research the effects of sibling placements in foster care.
Download or read book Effects of Separating Siblings in Foster Care written by Amy K. Pruneau and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study examined the question: What are the effects of separating siblings in foster care? In recent years, there has been legislation requiring child welfare agencies to place siblings together in foster care whenever possible. However, there has been little research addressing the effects of separating siblings in foster care. The literature review revealed mixed findings on the effects of separating siblings in terms of psychological effects, permanency outcomes, and number of replacements (i.e., children in foster care moving from one placement to another placement). Additionally, there have been methodological difficulties studying siblings as siblings cannot be considered independent from each other. Therefore, many of the traditional statistical methods do not allow for multiple siblings to be assessed in the same study. The current study utilized hierarchical linear modeling and hierarchical generalized linear modeling to account for the nested data. Data was collected from a child welfare agency in southeast Michigan. The sample was comprised of families consisting of three siblings who received services by this agency for at least 4 months. The results of the current study did find support for the hypothesis that separating siblings in foster care was related to higher replacement rates. There was no support for the remaining hypotheses that separating siblings was related to mental health stability, the individual’s average mental health score, or permanency outcomes.
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 Sibling Groups in Foster Care written by California. Department of Social Services. Foster Care Branch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 241 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.
Download or read book Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care written by Deborah N. Silverstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Normally, our relationships with our brothers and sisters are the longest relationships in our lives, outlasting time with our parents, and most marriages today. The sibling relationship is emotionally powerful and critically important, giving us a sense of continuity throughout life. So what happens when a child loses contact not only with his or her parents, but with siblings too? That is what happens in thousands of cases each year inside the child welfare system. Children are surrendered by parents - or taken by the government - and placed in the foster care system. There, they are often separated and sent to different foster families, or adopted by different couples. In this work, a team of top experts details for us how this added separation futher traumatizes children. This stellar team of internationally known researchers - some of whom are themselves adoptees - shares with us hard, poignant, and personal insights, as well as ways we might act to solve this widespread problem. Contributors address not only the importance of nurturing sibling bonds and mental health strategies to support those relationships, but also the legal rights of siblings to be together, as well as issues in international adoptions. Emerging and standing programs to encourage and facilitate adoptions that keep siblings together are featured, as are programs that at least enable them to stay in contact.
Download or read book Sibling Relationships Among Former Foster Children written by Sue A. Moravec and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the long-term effect of foster care placement on sibling relationships. Prior research suggests that foster care placement has a negative impact on sibling relationships and I wanted to explore whether sibling relationships ever fully recover from the detrimental impact of foster care placement. Methods: A mixed-methods approach was used to examine the impact various foster care elements had on their relationship with their siblings, including length of separation, frequency of visits, and number of placements. The methods used were anonymous survey and oral histories from former foster care participants. Results: Due to the limited number of responses, no inferential statistics could be used to test the relationships between variables. However, the responses, along with first hand recounts from several former foster care participants, support prior research that concludes foster care placement has a detrimental impact on sibling relationships. Discussion: Providing preventative intervention services and stronger emphasis on sibling co-placement and visitation, we can address the need for foster children to maintain strong relationships with their siblings during out of home placement.
Download or read book Fostercare written by Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What is Known about the Placement and Outcomes of Siblings in Foster Care written by Sarah Meakings and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report investigates what is known about the placement and outcomes of siblings in foster care. It reviews the international literature on the factors associated with the decision to place children together with - or apart from - siblings, and considers the evidence on a range of outcomes for joint or separate foster placements. The findings - largely from the U.S. and Australia - support current British legislation that places a duty on Local Authorities to accommodate siblings together in care where possible. Since this is not happening in practice for a significant minority of cases, the report concludes with recommendations for policy, practice, and further research.
Download or read book Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child written by Sarah A. Font and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to serve the best interest of children. It defines and evaluates key challenges that undermine child safety and well-being in the current foster care system. Chapters highlight the competing values and priorities of the system as well as the pros and cons for the use of foster care. In addition, chapters assess whether the performance objectives in which states are evaluated by the federal government are sufficient to achieve positive health and well-being outcomes for children who experience foster care. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the system and maximizing positive outcomes. Topics featured in this brief include: Legal aspects of removal and placement of children in foster care. The effectiveness of prior efforts to reform foster care. The regulation and quality of foster homes. Support for youth aging out of the foster care system. Racial and ethnic disparities in the foster care system. Foster Care and the Best Interests of the Child is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
Download or read book Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System written by Alan J. Dettlaff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child welfare. It offers a central source of information for students and practitioners who are seeking understanding on how structural and institutional racism can be addressed in public systems.
Download or read book Sibling Placement in Foster Care written by Kelly A. Sheppard and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sibling placement in foster care has long been a contentious topic of discussion. The decision or desire to place siblings together when they must enter foster care has been based on policies, procedures, and strong preferences of child welfare agencies. There is much literature and research supporting the practice of placing siblings together; however little empirical research examining the context and possibility of sibling separation as it relates to foster parent and social worker perceptions has been conducted. Research based primarily on mixed methods of quantitative and quantitative aspects was undertaken and a small online survey conducted exploring: the experiences of foster parents caring for sibling groups in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL); the conditions under which separating siblings support the development of each child in the sibling group; and what foster parents and social workers think about separating siblings who are in care in the same home.
Download or read book Siblings in Foster Care written by Margaret E. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, researchers in the social sciences have begun to examine the importance of sibling support and connectedness across the lifespan. Siblings may provide an important source of social support, friendship and instrumental support to one another from childhood to later life. The meaning of sibling connections for foster children, whose connection to parents and adult caregivers has been disrupted, is an important area meriting study. Unfortunately, until very recently, there has been a dearth of well-designed research examining the important developmental issues involving siblings placed in out of home care. Secondary data analysis on a subsample drawn from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW), Waves 1-5, was conducted to examine the life circumstances and developmental trajectories of foster children. Three comparison groups were drawn based on Wave 1 placement status, consisting of foster children partially separated from siblings (n =67, representing a population of 19,077), separated from all siblings (n = 116, representing a population of 32,109) and placed together with all siblings (n = 68, representing a population of 13,303). Increasing child age, child race and foster parent employment outside the home were significantly associated with sibling separation at Wave 1. Child characteristics, including child behavior at Wave 1 were not significantly associated with sibling separation status. Children did not differ by group membership with regard to placement in kinship care, or placement disruption. Children separated from siblings spent significantly longer in out of home placement than children placed with at least one sibling. Children separated from all siblings were significantly more likely to have experienced emotional abuse as their most serious form of maltreatment. Children separated from all siblings had significantly less contact with parents than other children. More than fifty percent of children separated from all siblings reported having had no visitation with either mother or father at the time of the Wave 1 interview.
Download or read book Examining the relationship between parenting style the home environment and placement stability for children in foster care written by Anne-Marie Conn and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 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:
