Achieving Permanence For Older Children And Youth In Foster Care

Author : Benjamin Kerman,Madelyn Freundlich,Anthony Maluccio
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231146883

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Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care by Benjamin Kerman,Madelyn Freundlich,Anthony Maluccio Pdf

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 for youth in foster care, how the existing knowledge base can be applied to improve these outcomes, and the directions that future research should take to strengthen youth permanence practice and policy. Part 1 examines child welfare data concerning reunification, adoption, and relative custody and guardianship and the implications for practice and policy. Part 2 addresses law, regulation, court reform, and resource allocation as vital components in achieving and sustaining family permanence. Contributors examine the impact of policy change created by court reform and propose new federal and state policy directions. Part 3 outlines a range of practices designed to achieve family permanence for youth in foster care: preserving families through community-based services, reunification, adoption, and custody and guardianship arrangements with relatives. As growing numbers of youth continue to "age out" of foster care without permanent families, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have increasingly focused on developing evidence-informed policies, practices, services and supports to improve outcomes for youth. Edited by leading professionals in the field, this text recommends the most relevant and effective methods for improving family permanency outcomes for older youth in foster care.

Author : Benjamin Kerman,Madelyn Freundlich,Anthony N. Maluccio
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Foster children
ISBN : 9780231146890

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Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care by Benjamin Kerman,Madelyn Freundlich,Anthony N. Maluccio Pdf

Contains essays in which the authors describe the problem of achieving permanence in foster care for older children and youth, and examine policy responses to the permanency needs of youth.

Author : Helen Cahalane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461486275

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Contemporary Issues in Child Welfare Practice by Helen Cahalane Pdf

Child welfare is the oldest specialization within social work practice and the only specialty area in which social work is the host profession. This edited volume provides a unique and comprehensive overview of practice issues relevant to contemporary child welfare professionals entering the field as well as those already working in direct service and management positions. This book’s emphasis on systemic, integrated, and evidence-informed practices at the individual, family, and organizational level is in keeping with child welfare’s core mission of child protection, family support, and permanency for youth. This volume also explores the challenges and opportunities present in a contemporary practice environment, which are driven by the attainment of defined outcomes, fiscal limitations, and the need for an informed professionalized child welfare workforce.

Author : Peter J. Pecora,James K. Whittaker,Richard P. Barth,Sharon Borja,William Vesneski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351141147

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The Child Welfare Challenge by Peter J. Pecora,James K. Whittaker,Richard P. Barth,Sharon Borja,William Vesneski Pdf

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. This text focuses on families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies, and considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential treatment services—where social work has an important role. This fourth edition features new content on child maltreatment and prevention that is informed by key conceptual frameworks informed by brain science, public health, and other research. This edition uses cross-sector data and more sophisticated predictive and other analytical processes to enhance planning and practice design. The authors have streamlined content on child protective services (CPS) to allow for new chapters on juvenile justice/cross-over youth, and international innovations, as well as more content on biology and brain science. The fourth edition includes a glossary of terms as well as instructor and student resource papers available online.

Author : Elizabeth Fernandez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400750913

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Accomplishing Permanency: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children by Elizabeth Fernandez Pdf

Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision. It is defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological family. Yet reunification decision-making and the process of reintegrating children into birth families remains under researched. This Brief takes a look at family reunification knowledge and research in Australia where there is evidence that most children placed in protective care are eventually reunited with their birth parents. It explores how a knowledge of reunification decision making and outcomes can contribute to strengthening practice and informing policy formulation and program planning in Child Welfare.​

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422321371

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Fostering permanence : progress achieved and challenges ahead for America’s child welfare system : hearing by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger J.R. Levesque
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 3161 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441916952

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Encyclopedia of Adolescence by Roger J.R. Levesque Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Adolescence breaks new ground as an important central resource for the study of adolescence. Comprehensive in breath and textbook in depth, the Encyclopedia of Adolescence – with entries presented in easy-to-access A to Z format – serves as a reference repository of knowledge in the field as well as a frequently updated conduit of new knowledge long before such information trickles down from research to standard textbooks. By making full use of Springer’s print and online flexibility, the Encyclopedia is at the forefront of efforts to advance the field by pushing and creating new boundaries and areas of study that further our understanding of adolescents and their place in society. Substantively, the Encyclopedia draws from four major areas of research relating to adolescence. The first broad area includes research relating to "Self, Identity and Development in Adolescence". This area covers research relating to identity, from early adolescence through emerging adulthood; basic aspects of development (e.g., biological, cognitive, social); and foundational developmental theories. In addition, this area focuses on various types of identity: gender, sexual, civic, moral, political, racial, spiritual, religious, and so forth. The second broad area centers on "Adolescents’ Social and Personal Relationships". This area of research examines the nature and influence of a variety of important relationships, including family, peer, friends, sexual and romantic as well as significant nonparental adults. The third area examines "Adolescents in Social Institutions". This area of research centers on the influence and nature of important institutions that serve as the socializing contexts for adolescents. These major institutions include schools, religious groups, justice systems, medical fields, cultural contexts, media, legal systems, economic structures, and youth organizations. "Adolescent Mental Health" constitutes the last major area of research. This broad area of research focuses on the wide variety of human thoughts, actions, and behaviors relating to mental health, from psychopathology to thriving. Major topic examples include deviance, violence, crime, pathology (DSM), normalcy, risk, victimization, disabilities, flow, and positive youth development.

Author : James K. Whittaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351485166

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The Child Welfare Challenge by James K. Whittaker Pdf

Within a historical and contemporary context, this book examines major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its future. In addition to describing the major problems facing the field, the book highlights service innovations that have been developed in recent years. The resulting picture is encouraging, especially if certain major program reforms I are implemented and agencies are able to concentrate resources in a focused manner. The volume emphasizes families and children whose primary recourse to services has been through publicly funded child welfare agencies. The book considers historical areas of service—foster care and adoptions, in-home family-centered services, child-protective services, and residential services—where social work has an important role. Authors address the many fields of practice in which child and family services are provided or that involve substantial numbers of social work programs, such as services to adolescent parents, child mental health, education, and juvenile justice agencies. This new edition will continue to serve as a fundamen-tal introduction for new practitioners, as well as summary of recent developments for experienced practitioners.

Author : Gerald P. Mallon,Peg McCartt Hess
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231151801

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Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century by Gerald P. Mallon,Peg McCartt Hess Pdf

The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), which became law in 1997, elicited a major shift in federal policy and thinking toward child welfare, emphasizing children’s safety, permanency, and well-being over preserving their biological ties at all costs. The first edition of this volume was the earliest major social work textbook to map the field of child welfare after ASFA’s passage, detailing the practices, policies, programs, and research affected by the legislation’s new attitude toward care. This second edition highlights the continuously changing child welfare climate in the U.S., including content on the Fostering Connections Act of 2008. Gerald P. Mallon and Peg McCartt Hess have updated the text throughout, drawing from real world case examples, using data obtained from the national Child and Family Services Reviews and emerging empirically based practices. They have also added chapters addressing child welfare workforce issues, supervision, and research and evaluation. Divided into four sections—child and adolescent well-being, child and adolescent safety, permanency for children and adolescents, and systemic issues within services, policies, and programs—this newly edited volume provides a current understanding of family support and child protective services, risk assessment, substance and sexual abuse issues, domestic violence issues, guardianship, reunification, kinship and foster family care, adoption, and transitional living programs. Recognized scholars, practitioners, and policy makers also discuss meaningful engagement with families, particularly Latino families; health care for children and youth, including mental health care; effective practices with LGBT youth and their families; placement stability; foster parent recruitment and retention; and the challenges of working with immigrant children, youth, and families.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : PSU:000061490079

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Fostering Permanence by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance Pdf

Author : Gale Burford,John Braithwaite,Valerie Braithwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429676901

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Restorative and Responsive Human Services by Gale Burford,John Braithwaite,Valerie Braithwaite Pdf

In Restorative and Responsive Human Services, Gale Burford, John Braithwaite, and Valerie Braithwaite bring together a distinguished collection providing rich lessons on how regulation in human services can proceed in empowering ways that heal and are respectful of human relationships and legal obligations. The human services are in trouble: combining restorative justice with responsive regulation might redeem them, renewing their well-intended principles. Families provide glue that connects complex systems. What are the challenges in scaling up relational practices that put families and primary groups at the core of health, education, and other social services? This collection has a distinctive focus on the relational complexity of restorative practices. How do they enable more responsive ways of grappling with complexity than hierarchical and prescriptive human services? Lessons from responsive business regulation inform a re-imagining of the human services to advance wellbeing and reduce domination. Readers are challenged to re-examine the perverse incentives and contradictions buried in policies and practices. How do they undermine the capacities of families and communities to solve problems on their own terms? This book will interest those who harbor concerns about the creep of domination into the lives of vulnerable citizens. It will help policymakers and researchers to re-focus human services to fundamental outcomes at the foundation of sustainable democracies.

Author : Moshe Israelashvili,Shula Mozes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781000634167

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Youth Without Family to Lean On by Moshe Israelashvili,Shula Mozes Pdf

Youth Without Family to Lean On draws together interdisciplinary, global perspectives to provide a comprehensive review of the characteristics, dynamics, and development of youth (aged 15–25) who have no family to lean on, either practically or psychologically. In this timely volume, Mozes and Israelashvili bring together leading international experts to present updated knowledge, information on existing interventions, and unanswered questions in relation to youth without family to lean on, in pursuit of fostering these youth’s positive development. The various chapters in this book include discussions on different topics such as social support, developing a sense of belonging, parental involvement, and internalized vs. externalized problems; on populations, including homeless youth, residential care-leavers, refugees, asylum-seekers, young women coming from vulnerable families, and school dropouts; and interventions to promote these youths' mentoring relationships, labor market attainment, out-of-home living placements, use of IT communication, and participation in community-based programs. Additionally, various problems and challenges are presented and elaborated on, such as: Who needs support? Who is qualified to provide support? How should related interventions be developed? The book takes a preventive approach and aims to emphasize steps that can be taken in order to promote young people’s positive development in spite of the absence of a family to rely on in their life and examines the best practices in this context, as well as the international lessons that deserve further dissemination and exploration. This book is essential reading for those in psychology, sociology, public health, social work, law, criminology, public policy, economics, and education and is highly enriching for scholars and practitioners, as well as higher education students, who wish to understand and help the gradually increasing number of youth who are forced, too early, to manage their life alone.

Author : Cynthia Franklin Ph.D.,Rowena Fong
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199707577

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The Church Leader's Counseling Resource Book by Cynthia Franklin Ph.D.,Rowena Fong Pdf

This all-in-one guide is designed to better equip clergy and the church leaders to meet their congregations' needs in a spiritually grounded and scientifically sound manner. Succinct, easy-to-read chapters summarize all a pastor needs to know about a given problem area, including its signs or symptoms, questions to ask, effective helping skills, and, most importantly, when to refer to a mental health professional. Synthesizing what research says about treatment approaches for mental health issues, this user-friendly reference is filled with guidelines, case scenarios, key points to remember, resources for further help, advice on integrating scripture and theology with the best available research, and tips on partnering with others to provide the best possible care for each church member. Each chapter is designed for quick lookup by problem area, empowering church leaders to understand and help meet the challenges facing the children, adults, families, and communities that they serve.

Author : Andrea Khoury,Claire Sandt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063699511

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Achieving Permanency for Adolescents in Foster Care by Andrea Khoury,Claire Sandt Pdf

Author : Portland State University. Regional Research Institute for Human Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Adoption
ISBN : UOM:39015016221015

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Overcoming Barriers to Planning for Children in Foster Care by Portland State University. Regional Research Institute for Human Services Pdf