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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Jennifer E. Blakeslee & Jared I. Best - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study explores how foster care experiences can impact support network functionality as young people exit the foster care system.

Youngmi Kim, Eunsu Ju, Rachel Rosenberg, Betsy Farmer - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study aims to test Independent Living Services (ILS)'s effects on educational attainment and employment of foster care youth.

Lemn Sissay - Channel 4,

In this documentary episode from Channel 4 in the UK, Lemn Sissay meets seven young people who are in the care of their council and sets out to help them express their experiences through words and perform them to a packed theatre of decision-makers.

John SG, Brandt TW, Secrist ME, Mesman GR, Sigel BA, Kramer TL - Psychol Serv,

This article provides an overview of complex trauma and its effects, with a focus on attachment concerns.

Angela Look - Journal of Humanistic Psychology,

In this article, the author provides a synopsis of some current statistics about foster care and the experience of the foster care system in the US and offers an overview of a handful of relevant grief theories and expend a call to those within the field to develop more unique grief theories and interventions for children in the foster care system.

Donna J. Cherry & John G. Orme - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study replicated and extended previous research by conducting a follow-up study of 107 families (90% response rate) 17 years after pre-service training. Consistent with previous research we found a small proportion (10%) of families who provide a disproportionate amount of care in terms of length of service and number of children fostered, approved to foster, adopted, and removed at families' request.

Marina Haddock Potter & Sarah A. Font - Children and Youth Services Review,

This study sought to investigate associations of caregiver-child closeness, monitoring, and dating communication with youth's sexual initiation, sexual partners, and unprotected intercourse over the subsequent 12 months.

Frank Van Holen, Lenny Trogh, Delphine West, Nina Meys, Johan Vanderfaeillie - Children and Youth Services Review,

In this study, concept mapping was used to identify the needs of nonkinship foster parents from Caucasian ethnicity who care for unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) in Flanders (Dutch speaking part of Belgium).

Sharon Dijkstra, Jessica J. Asscher, Maja Deković, Geert Jan J. M. Stams, Hanneke E. Creemers - Child Maltreatment,

The present study examined the effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing (FGC) in child welfare.

SNAICC – National Voice for our Children,

Family Matters reports set out what governments are doing to turn the tide on the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out of-home care, and the outcomes for children and their families.