Showing papers in "Children and Youth Services Review in 1994"

TL;DR: Information is provided about kinship foster care and foster family care focusing on the demographic characteristics of providers; the services providers receive; the children served in care; and issues of visitation with birth parents.

TL;DR: Overall, kinship care teens are doing no less well than their counterparts in foster family care, and the data on monitoring and legal guardianship do suggest that services should be supplied with equal vigor to the kinship foster care minors.

TL;DR: The study summarized in this paper represents the first comprehensive assessment of the physical and mental health and educational status of children in kinship care and the anticipated high risk status of these children was supported by study findings.

TL;DR: The study found that with respect to education completion, young parenthood, and the use of public assistance, discharged foster care youth more closely resembled 18- to 24-year-olds living below the poverty level than they do 18-to- 24- year-olds in the general population.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that relative foster parents were significantly more likely to ensure the foster child's continued contact with his or her birth parents than were non-relative foster parents.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of states' policies on the use of kinship care as a child welfare service was conducted, revealing a lack of clarity, a lack consistency across states and value conflicts regarding policies guiding placement of children with their relatives.

TL;DR: The legal duties and powers of social service departments in England and Wales in relation to young people leaving their care or accommodation have recently been strengthened by the Children Act 1989, which was implemented in October 1991.

TL;DR: Barth et al. as discussed by the authors studied the characteristics of kinship providers and the children in their care, and found that kinship care is becoming the pre- dominant form of out-of-home care in several large states.

TL;DR: A need to improve life-skills preparation in group home/ institutional settings, to target minority males for life-Skills enhancement in all placement settings, and whenever possible to utilize apartment placements to supplement foster home, group home, and institutional placements is suggested.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of 152 randomly selected adolescents 16 years of age and older in foster care in Los Angeles County uses data from three different sources to identify significant predictors of readiness for independent living.

TL;DR: In this paper, a descriptive research was conducted to better inform policy makers about the characteristics of the population that is eligible for Independent Living skills, in order to better target appropriate interventions.

TL;DR: Aldgate, Maluccio & Reeves, 1989 as mentioned in this paper discussed the social and practical problems faced by care graduates and discussed these in the light of recent UK research findings and gave some ideas on how these problems may be ameliorated in general and outline the way the new British child care law has provided a framework for action by practitioners.

TL;DR: The growing emphasis in the field of child welfare in the United States on preserving families has resulted in renewed attention to the reunification of children in out-of-home placement with their families as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A case study examines the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's promotion of the Homebuilders type of family preservation services as the sole model worthy of public support as mentioned in this paper, and suggests that successful marketing and dissemination of a single program design, in this policy environment, not only may displace other, no less effective programs and models, such success in marketing may also have adverse effects on research, education, continued innovation, needed diversity, and the public policymaking system.

TL;DR: The problem is that the child welfare field has not developed a proven technology which can assure the adequate safety of endangered children as discussed by the authors, thus, the risk of leaving a child in an endangered home is a child fatality.

TL;DR: The study's findings suggest that family-centered, home-based programs are effective in the prevention of placement for both highand low-risk clients and a statistically significant difference between preand postfamily functioning of families who participated in the home- based program.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive assessment battery consisting of four paper and pencil devices comprised the skills assessment battery, including Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE), Tests for Everyday Living (TEL), Daniel Memorial Independent Living Assessment for Life Skills, and Effective Social Skills (ESS).

TL;DR: This paper found that children adopted by relatives are more apt to be adopted by single parents, by parents who are older, with less formal education and with lower incomes than those adopted by non-relatives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare two models for delivering emancipation preparation services implemented in Los Angeles County, California, using evaluative data from three related studies on programmatic, structural and client outcome dimensions.

TL;DR: The relative usage of specific services and service goals largely confirmed the essential continuation of the original intervention model, which appeared to be a synthesis of these three major practice approaches: Rogerian relationship-building techniques; behavioral interventions including parent skill-building, behavioral modification, and cognitive treatment; and the provision of concrete services.

TL;DR: The Family Preservation and Support Services (FPS) legislation as mentioned in this paper provides both opportunity and risks for the emerging family policy, the opportunity is in the funding for the States to conduct needs assessments and thorough plans to address the problems facing families and the risks are due to lack of strong specific guidelines for establishing family preservation programs.

TL;DR: Gaps in knowledge of families' involvement in intensive family preservation services, the intensive crisis oriented services designed to prevent the unnecessary out-of-home placement of children, are identified.

TL;DR: In this article, the conceptual framework for an on-going and non-categorical approach to services, based on a home visitor model, is described, and Obstacles as well as advantages are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the historical context and current ingredients of the child welfare crisis and advise caution in the separation of investigative and service functions in child protection, after reviewing our national experience with separation of income maintenance and social services in public welfare.

TL;DR: The task of preparing foster youths for the transition to adulthood is receiving increased attention in the child welfare practice community as discussed by the authors, and the work in this special issue is to cut across a segment of current research activity in the area of foster youth independence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss areas where Federal oversight of State compliance with case review guidelines needs improvement and suggest avenues, such as issuing more clear and precise regulations, by which HHS could best ensure that children in foster care receive the prompt case review to which they are entitled.

TL;DR: Examining some of the patterns associated with placement and subsequent discharge of rural children in emergency shelter care in the context of the crisis in social work services to families and children is examined.