The Impact of Health Care Education on Utilization Among Adolescents Preparing for Emancipation From Foster Care

Sarah J. Beal, Katie Nause, Nathan Lutz, Mary V. Greiner - Journal of Adolescent Health

This study examined the impact of health care education materials designed for foster youth, called ICare2CHECK. It was hypothesized that ICare2CHECK would increase nonurgent ambulatory health care use and decrease emergency/urgent care use.

Creating a safe educational environment for children deprived of parental care: pedagogical and socio-legal aspects

Victoria Sydorenko, Alla Kovalchuk - The Asian International Journal of Life Sciences

The study substantiates the organizational, psychological, pedagogical and socio-legal principles of creating a safe educational environment for children deprived of parental care, providing the proper conditions for their socialization, harmonious physical, mental, moral and volitional, and spiritual development.

Improving Child Welfare’s Use of Data for Service Planning: Practitioner Perspectives on a Training Curriculum

Elisa Romano, Lauren Stenason, Kelly Weegar, Connie Cheung - Children and Youth Services Review

This study examined the outcomes of a training aimed at enhancing child welfare practitioners’ use of data from the the Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) project for service planning related to young people’s educational outcomes.

Demographic, Health Care, and Fertility-related Characteristics of Adults Aged 18–44 Who Have Ever Been in Foster Care: United States, 2011–2017

Colleen N. Nugent, Chinagozi Ugwu, Jo Jones, Sharon Newburg-Rinn, and Tammy White - National Center for Health Statistics & Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children & Families

This report presents demographic characteristics, health service access and use, and timing of key fertility-related milestones among adults aged 18–44 who had ever been in foster care as compared with those who had never been in foster care in the United States.

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Improving relationship quality in group care settings: The impact of implementing the CARE model

Charles V. Izzo, Elliott G. Smith, Deborah E. Sellers, Martha J. Holden, Michael A. Nunno - Children and Youth Services Review

The current study examined the effects of implementing a new program model on the quality of relationships between direct care providers and residents in group care agencies.

Parent mentoring relationships as a vehicle for reducing racial disparities: Experiences of child welfare-involved parents, mentors and professionals

Ruth Soffer-Elnekave, Wendy Haight, Bailey Jader - Children and Youth Services Review

This qualitative study examines the Minnesota One-Stop for Communities Parent Mentor Program (MPMP). African American parents previously involved in the child welfare system conceptualized and spearheaded this program for parents currently involved in the system to reduce the involvement of families of color in child welfare, provide support and build protective factors.

Unaccompanied minors and court mandated institutional care: A national registry-based study in Sweden

Mojgan Padyab, Malin Eriksson, Mehdi Ghazinour, Lena Lundgren - Children and Youth Services Review

The research question examined in this study is whether unaccompanied minors (UAMs) in compulsory care receive more restrictive actions by compulsory care staff compared to their counterparts who are non-UAMs.

Barriers to adoption and foster care and openness to child characteristics among transgender adults

Abbie E. Goldberg, Samantha Tornello, Rachel Farr, JuliAnna Z. Smith, Liam Miranda - Children and Youth Services Review

This study reports on trans adults’ fears of discrimination and openness to child characteristics in the adoption/foster care process in the U.S., relative to cisgender sexual minority parents.