Foster Care

The term “foster care” is used in a variety of ways, and, consequently, it often causes confusion and miscommunication. In the industrialized world it is generally used to refer to formal, temporary placements made by the State with families that are trained, monitored and compensated at some level. In many developing countries, however, fostering is kinship care or other placement with a family, the objective(s) of which may include the care of the child, the child’s access to education, and/or the child’s doing some type of work for the foster family.

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Better Care Network, The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, and UNICEF and Inter-agency Task Force,

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Madelaine Smales, Melissa Savaglio, Susan Webster, Helen Skouteris, Bengianni Pizzirani, Renee O'Donnell, Rachael Green - Children and Youth Services Review,

This systematic review aimed to explore if and how the voices of young people in out-of-home care (OoHC) are represented in research examining their health.

Katelyn Blair, James Topitzes, Erin N Winkler, Cheryl B McNeil - Qualitative Social Work,

This exploratory study examines practitioners’ and foster parents’ perceptions on use of Parent–Child Interaction Therapy in child welfare.

Philip Mendes, Jacqueline Z Wilson, Frank Golding - The British Journal of Social Work,

This article, an auto-ethnographic collaboration between a social work professional and two care leavers, aims to address the problems with records compiled by care workers, social workers and other relevant personnel by constructing a ‘virtual archive’ consisting of several hypothetical records compiled in the style typically employed by caseworkers, which are then critiqued by the care leavers.

Tina Adkins, Samantha Reisz, Kaitlyn Doerge, Swetha Nulu - Child Abuse & Neglect,

This study addressed three research questions: (1) What are ACE totals in this sample of foster parents and how do they compare with the original CDC-Kaiser study? (2) Does foster parents’ ACE exposure relate to foster child behavior? (3) Is the relation between foster parents’ ACEs and children’s challenging behaviors different based on the specific ACE?

Karen Mclean Conceptualisation, Jessica Clarke, Dorothy Scott, Harriet Hiscock, Sharon Goldfeld - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper explores the experiences of Victorian foster and kinship carers accessing timely health assessment and ongoing healthcare for a child placed in their care; identifying barriers and enablers.

Karen Mclean Conceptualisation, Jessica Clarke, Dorothy Scott, Harriet Hiscock, Sharon Goldfeld - Children and Youth Services Review,

This paper explores the experiences of Victorian foster and kinship carers accessing timely health assessment and ongoing healthcare for a child placed in their care; identifying barriers and enablers.

Lisa Jones, Charlotte Dean, Ally Dunhill, Max A. Hope, Patricia A. Shaw - Children & Society,

This paper develops understandings of how being publicly identified and consequently labelled as ‘looked after’ can have damaging consequences for young people, particularly in how they are perceived by their peers in the context of schooling.

Jennifer Ma - International Social Work,

This comparative analysis will illuminate how injustices continue to be reproduced, focusing on the child welfare system, as part of the devastating effects that colonization has on Aboriginal peoples, but also as evidence of colonization being reproduced through current discriminatory legislation and practices.

Johan Vanderfaeillie, Laura Gypen, Delphine West, Frank Van Holen - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aims at identifying characteristics of foster children, foster parents and foster placements associated with low satisfaction and high support needs.