Achieving permanence for older children and youth in foster care /

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Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show how to achieve and sustain family permanence for older children and youth in foster care. Researchers examine what is known about permanency outcomes fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kerman, Benjamin, Freundlich, Madelyn, Maluccio, Anthony N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Foster children > United States.
Foster home care > United States.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > Adoption & Fostering.
Foster children.
Foster home care.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foster youth in context / Fred Wulczyn
  • A comparative examination of foster youth who did and did not achieve permanency / Penelope L. Maza
  • Outcomes for older youth exiting the foster care system in the United States / Mark E. Courtney
  • Outcomes for youth exiting the foster care system : extending what we know and what needs to be done with selected data / Peter J. Pecora
  • Permanence and impermanence for youth in out-of-home care / Richard P. Barth and Laura K. Chintapalli
  • Permanence is a state of security and attachment / Gretta Cushing and Benjamin Kerman
  • Permanence for older children and youth : law, policy, and research / Madelyn Freundlich
  • Federal law and child welfare reform : the research-policy interface in promoting permanence for older children and youth / Rosemary J. Avery
  • Guardianship and youth permanence / Robert B. Hill
  • A fine balancing act : kinship care, subsidized guardianship, and outcomes / Aron Shlonsky
  • Dependency court reform addressing the permanency needs of youth in foster care : national evaluation of the court improvement program / Karl Ensign, Sabrina A. Davis, and Elizabeth Lee
  • Facilitation of systems reform : learning from model court jurisdictions / Shirley A. Dobbin
  • Permanent families for adolescents : applying lessons learned from a family reunification demonstration program / Barbara A. Pine and Robin Spath
  • Youth permanence through adoption / Ruth G. McRoy and Elissa Madden
  • Family-involvement meetings with older children in foster care : promising practices and the challenge of child welfare reform / David Crampton and Joan Pennell
  • Developmentally appropriate community-based responses to the permanency needs of older youth involved in the child welfare system / Sandra Stukes Chipungu, Laura G. Daughtery, and Benjamin Kerman
  • Social and life skills development : preparing and facilitating youth for transition into young adults / Hewitt B. Clark and Kimberly A. Crosland
  • From research to practice : improving permanency outcomes for youth in foster care / Madelyn Freundlich [and others]
  • Afterword : making families permanent and cases closed : concluding thoughts and recommendations.

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