Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care
Edited by Benjamin Kerman, Madelyn Freundlich, and Anthony Maluccio
eISBN: 9780231519328
2009 (416 pages )
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(pages 1-414)
Table of Contents
(pages 5-8)
Acknowledgments
(pages 9-12)
Introduction
(pages 13-20)
Part 1. Describing the Problem
(pages 21-24)
1. Foster Youth in Context
(pages 25-43)
2. Comparative Examination of Foster Youth Who Did and Did Not Achieve Permanency
(pages 44-51)
3. Outcomes for Older Youth Exiting the Foster Care Systemin the United States
(pages 52-86)
4. Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System: Extending What We Know and What Needs to Be Done with Selected Data
(pages 87-99)
5. Permanence and Impermanence for Youth in Out-of-Home Care
(pages 100-120)
6. Permanence Is a State of Security and Attachment
(pages 121-134)
Part 2: Policy Responses to the Permanency Needs of Youth
(pages 135-138)
7. Permanence for Older Children and Youth: Law, Policy, and Research
(pages 139-158)
8. Federal Law and Child Welfare Reform: The Research-Policy Interface in Promoting Permanence for Older Children and Youth
(pages 159-167)
9. Guardianship and Youth Permanence
(pages 168-187)
10. A Fine Balancing Act: Kinship Care, Subsidized Guardianship, and Outcomes
(pages 188-198)
11. Dependency Court Reform Addressing the Permanency Needs of Youth in Foster Care: National Evaluation of the Court Improvement Program
(pages 199-221)
12. Facilitation of Systems Reform: Learning from Model Court Jurisdictions
(pages 222-230)
Part 3: Practice Responses to the Permanency Needs of Youth
(pages 231-234)
13. Permanent Families for Adolescents: Applying Lessons Learned from a Family Reunification Demonstration Program
(pages 235-255)
14. Youth Permanence Through Adoption
(pages 256-277)
15. Family-Involvement Meetings with Older Children in Foster Care: Promising Practices and the Challenge of Child Welfare Reform
(pages 278-302)
16. Developmentally Appropriate Community-Based Responses to the Permanency Needs of Older Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System
(pages 303-324)
17. Social and Life Skills Development: Preparing and Facilitating Youth for Transition into Young Adults
(pages 325-348)
18. From Research to Practice: Improving Permanency Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care
(pages 349-368)
Afterword: Making Families Permanent and Cases Closed—Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
(pages 369-380)
Contributors
(pages 381-386)
Index
(pages 387-414)
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Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care
Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show how to achieve and sustain family permanence for older children and youth in foster care. Researchers examine what is known about permanency outcomes for youth in foster care, how the existing knowledge base can be applied to improve these outcomes, and the directions that future research should take to strengthen youth permanence practice and policy. Part 1 examines child welfare data concerning reunification, adoption, and relative custody and guardianship and the implications for practice and policy. Part 2 addresses law, regulation, court reform, and resource allocation as vital components in achieving and sustaining family permanence. Contributors examine the impact of policy change created by court reform and propose new federal and state policy directions. Part 3 outlines a range of practices designed to achieve family permanence for youth in foster care: preserving families through community-based services, reunification, adoption, and custody and guardianship arrangements with relatives. As growing numbers of youth continue to "age out" of foster care without permanent families, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have increasingly focused on developing evidence-informed policies, practices, services and supports to improve outcomes for youth. Edited by leading professionals in the field, this text recommends the most relevant and effective methods for improving family permanency outcomes for older youth in foster care.
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Table of Contents
Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care
Author(s):
Kerman, Benjamin, ed.; Freundlich, Madelyn, ed.; Maluccio, Anthony, ed.
Keyword(s):
SW01; SW09; SW10; CSWO
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