Opportunities in Transition: An Economic Analysis of Investing in Youth Aging out of Foster Care in their 20s - Report 3 of 3: Opportunities for Increased Support

Fostering Change

This report is the third and final in a series of reports exploring the economic consequences and issues for youth aging out of care in British Columbia, Canada. The purpose of the report is to estimate the incremental costs of support measures that can improve outcomes and to compare these costs to the benefits they may generate.

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Permanency with lifelong connections: Casework practices to support positive relationships between carer and birth families

Wright, Amy Conley; Collings, Susan - Developing Practice: The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal

In Australia, the emerging model of child welfare policy and practice emphasises 'permanency and lifelong connections with birth families'.

“I Became a Different Person”: Personal Change of Lithuanian Foster Parents through Informal Learning

Ramune Bagdonaite-Stelmokiene & Vilma Zydziunaite - Qualitative Research in Education

This article presents the findings of the qualitative study on the personal change of foster parents carried out in Lithuania, which reveals the subjective experience of informal learning of the foster parents fostering a non-relative child.

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