Care and Connections: Bridging Relational Gaps for Foster Youths

Ramona Denby, Efren Gomez, and Richard V. Reeves - Brookings Institution

This report explores the challenges of implementing and evaluating relationship-based interventions for young people with experience in the U.S. foster care system and presents recommendations for both practitioners and researchers for successful implementation and evaluation in the future. 

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Portuguese adopted adolescents' perception of attachment relationships to parents

Raquel Barroso, Maria Barbosa-Ducharne, and Vanessa Coelho - Child & Family Social Work

This study investigated Portuguese adolescent adoptees' perceptions of their attachment relationships with their adopted parents compared to adolescents living with biological parents and adolescents living in residential care. 

Youth Initiated Mentors: Do They Offer an Alternative for Out-of-Home Placement in Youth Care?

Levi van Dam et al. - British Journal of Social Work

This study evaluates the Youth Initiated Mentoring (YIM) program, which allows youth with complex needs to nominate a mentor from their own social network to collaborate with care professionals and their families as an alternative to out-of-home placement.  

The Effects of Socioeconomic Vulnerability, Psychosocial Services, and Social Service Spending on Family Reunification: A Multilevel Longitudinal Analysis

Tonino Esposito et al. - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

This paper examines the extent to which socioeconomic vulnerability, psychosocial service consultations, and preventative social services spending impacts the reunification for children placed in out-of-home care.

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