Rendering the First-Year Experience: Experiences of Successful Foster Alumni College Students

Kearney, Kerri Shultz; Will, Lisa; Satterfield, James W. - Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences foster alumni college students (i.e., students who, as adolescents, were in foster care or other out-of-home conditions) considered pertinent during their first year in college.

Developing trauma informed practice in Northern Ireland: The child welfare system

Bunting, L., Montgomery, L., Mooney, S., MacDonald, M., Coulter, S., Hayes, D., Forbes, T. - y Queen’s University, School of Social Sciences, Education & Social Work

This paper provides an overview of the principles of Trauma informed care, describing how service user experiences of adversity and/or trauma relate to the child welfare system in Northern Ireland and outlining international and national policy and practice developments in creating more Trauma informed child welfare systems.

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Out-of-home placement decisions: How individual characteristics of professionals are reflected in deciding about child protection cases

Whitney D. de Haan, et al - Developmental Child Welfare

The current study examines the relation between several individual characteristics of professionals in the Netherlands and their decisions about out-of-home placement in a multivariate model.

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Who Cares 2019: Executive Summary

The Chronicle of Social Change

Since 2017, The Chronicle of Social Change has been working to build the first public resource on foster care capacity in the United States, through the Who Cares project which collects data directly from each state, and combines it with specially obtained federal reports. This executive summary provides and overview of methodology and findings of the Who Cares project for 2019.

LGBTQ Youth of Color Impacted by the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems: A Research Agenda

Kerith J. Conron, Bianca D.M. Wilson - The Williams Institute, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

This report from t he Williams Institute is a collection of working papers focused on understanding what we know and what we need to better understand about the lives and outcomes of system-involved youth who are both LGBTQ and racial/ethnic minorities, including those involved in the US child welfare system.

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Educational Background, Educational Expectations and Organized Activity Participation Among Adolescents Aging Out of Care in Brazil

Luciana Cassarino-Perez, Lívia Maria Bedin, Fabiane Schutz, Jorge Castellá Sarriera - Education in Out-of-Home Care

This chapter from the book Education in Out-of-Home Care aims to (1) provide an overview of educational background and educational expectations of adolescents aging out of care in Brazil; (2) examine associations between educational background and extracurricular activity and placement characteristics; and (3) discuss the specificities of education in care for adolescents in Brazil as well as its similarities with other countries.