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What Works in Foster Care? Key Components of Success From the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Edition:
- 1st
- Author:
- Pecora, Peter J.; Kessler, Ronald C.; Williams, Jason; Downs, A. Chris; English, Diana J.; White, James; O'Brien, Kirk
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-517591-2
- Doody Core Title Score:
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Extremely useful for practitioners and policymakers as they work to improve services that will enhance the lives of youth in care.
On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services in the U.S. at an annual cost of over $25 billion. Growing demand and shrinking funds have so greatly stressed the child welfare system that calls for orphanages have re-entered the public debate for the first time in nearly half a century. New ideas are desperately needed to transform a system in crisis, guarantee better outcomes for children in foster care, and reduce the need for out-of-home care in the first place.
Yet little is known about what works in foster care. Very few studies have examined how alumni have fared as adults or tracked long-term health effects, and even fewer have directly compared different foster care services. In one of the most comprehensive studies of adults formerly in foster care ever conducted, the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow into adults. Key investments in highly trai
On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services in the U.S. at an annual cost of over $25 billion. Growing demand and shrinking funds have so greatly stressed the child welfare system that calls for orphanages have re-entered the public debate for the first time in nearly half a century. New ideas are desperately needed to transform a system in crisis, guarantee better outcomes for children in foster care, and reduce the need for out-of-home care in the first place.
Yet little is known about what works in foster care. Very few studies have examined how alumni have fared as adults or tracked long-term health effects, and even fewer have directly compared different foster care services. In one of the most comprehensive studies of adults formerly in foster care ever conducted, the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow into adults. Key investments in highly trai
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- Platform:
- OvidSP
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Product Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Pecora, Peter J.; Kessler, Ronald C.; Williams, Jason; Downs, A. Chris; English, Diana J.; White, James; O'Brien, Kirk
- ISBN:
- 978-0-19-517591-2
- Specialty:
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- Social Work
- Language:
- English
- Edition:
- 1st
- Pages:
- 320
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Doody Core Title Score:
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