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Parental substance abuse is one of the most prominent reasons that children enter foster care. The relative role of substance type in delaying reunification has remained elusive. This study sought to understand the impact of parental use of alcohol, methamphetamine, other drugs, and...
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The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to placement disruption in long-term kinship and nonkinship foster care in a Nordic country.
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with a relative. With regard to the permanency outcome of adoption, the findings showed that as the age of the child at …
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are needed to help youth achieve legal permanency before they age out of foster care. One such strategy is the permanency … roundtable, which convenes a team of professionals to facilitate the permanency planning process by identifying realistic … solutions to permanency obstacles for youth. Nearly 500 youth went through the initial permanency roundtable process in Georgia …
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strengthening family connections and permanency. We used an experimental design with randomization to family finding or a control … relatives and less likely to age out of care without permanency resolution, but other forms of permanency, number of placement … disruptions, and subsequent substantiated maltreatment reports did not differ between groups. As a method for strengthening family …
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Achieving legal permanency (i.e., family reunification, adoption, or legal guardianship) for children placed in out … legal permanency, variation that cannot be readily explained by differences in the characteristics of the populations served … court-involved versus non-court involved influences regional performance in achieving permanency for children. These …
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Intake and termination data from two samples of substance-using and/or HIV-positive mothers of minor children were collected from 17 projects across the U.S. Service utilization data collected from the initial sample was modeled using hierarchical classes (HICLAS) analysis. HICLAS identified...
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children who had similar demographic characteristics, maltreatment histories, and prior levels of school engagement. Children …
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The occurrence of pediatric asthma has been associated with exposure to chronic stress. This study examined the relationship between maternal and community risk factors and asthma in a sample of maltreated children in foster care.
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focus on one agency's permanency practice model. The authors outline the essential components of child welfare supervision … achieve safety, permanency and well-being. …
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