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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (416 p.) : 17 illus., 10 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231146890
  • 9780231519328
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.73/30973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV881 .A62 2009
  • HV881 .A62 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Foster Youth in Context -- 2. A Comparative Examination of Foster Youth Who Did and Did Not Achieve Permanency -- 3. Outcomes for Older Youth Exiting the Foster Care System in the United States -- 4. Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System -- 5. Permanence and Impermanence for Youth in Out-of-Home Care -- 6. Permanence Is a State of Security and Attachment -- 7. Permanence for Older Children and Youth -- 8. Federal Law and Child Welfare Reform -- 9. Guardianship and Youth Permanence -- 10. A Fine Balancing Act: Kinship Care, Subsidized Guardianship, and Outcomes -- 11. Dependency Court Reform Addressing the Permanency Needs of Youth in Foster Care -- 12. Facilitation of Systems Reform -- 13. Permanent Families for Adolescents -- 14. Youth Permanence Through Adoption -- 15. Family-Involvement Meetings with Older Children in Foster Care -- 16. Developmentally Appropriate Community-Based Responses to the Permanency Needs of Older Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System -- 17. Social and Life Skills Development -- 18. From Research to Practice -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- Introduction
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Foster Youth in Context -- 2. A Comparative Examination of Foster Youth Who Did and Did Not Achieve Permanency -- 3. Outcomes for Older Youth Exiting the Foster Care System in the United States -- 4. Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System -- 5. Permanence and Impermanence for Youth in Out-of-Home Care -- 6. Permanence Is a State of Security and Attachment -- 7. Permanence for Older Children and Youth -- 8. Federal Law and Child Welfare Reform -- 9. Guardianship and Youth Permanence -- 10. A Fine Balancing Act: Kinship Care, Subsidized Guardianship, and Outcomes -- 11. Dependency Court Reform Addressing the Permanency Needs of Youth in Foster Care -- 12. Facilitation of Systems Reform -- 13. Permanent Families for Adolescents -- 14. Youth Permanence Through Adoption -- 15. Family-Involvement Meetings with Older Children in Foster Care -- 16. Developmentally Appropriate Community-Based Responses to the Permanency Needs of Older Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System -- 17. Social and Life Skills Development -- 18. From Research to Practice -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index -- Introduction

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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 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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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