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Education and Child Welfare System Efforts to Improve Educational Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023The educational outcomes of youth in foster care are far worse than those of other students, in part because of fragmentation within and misalignment between the education and child welfare systems.
Some Type of Way by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2023What are the realities of the lives of youth aging out? Why are they struggling? What are agencies and service providers doing to help them? What should be done to help these youth negotiate the transitions out of care and into adulthood? Based on over 90 interviews and almost 1,000 hours of observation of youth aging out and service providers.
"Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System: Extending What We Know and What Needs to Be Done with Selected Data" by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2015Through 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.
"A Systems Dilemma: Intergenerational Foster Care and Homelessness" by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2014This text recommends strategies for delivering mental health and intensive case-management services that maintain family integrity and stability.
"Marginalized Mothers and Intersecting Systems of Surveillance: Prisons and Foster Care" by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role.
Fragile Families by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2017Examines the precarious position of Latina/o families who are simultaneously caught up in systems of child welfare and immigration enforcement, focusing on the central role of child welfare decision-making in producing and maintaining boundaries of citizenship, race, and national belonging in the United States.
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The following is a selection of articles available through BU Library Search:
- "Intersection of race and religion for youth in foster care: examining policy and practice" by Mary Elizabeth Collins and Hudith Scott (2019). Available here.
- "Placement disruption in foster care: Children’s behavior, foster parent support, and parenting experiences" by Sonya Leathers et. al (2019). Available here.
- "The Meaning of Shared Parenthood in Long‐Term Foster Care: The Perspectives of Parents and Foster Carers" by Céline Cannaert and Lieselot De Wilde (2024). Available here.
- "Need for Trauma-Informed Care Within the Foster Care System: A Policy Issue" by Brittany Beyerlein and Ellin Bloch (2014). Available here.
- "Youth transitioning from foster care : background and federal programs" by ADrienne Alcantara-Fernandes (2019). Available here.
- "Foster Care Alumni’s Perceptions of Mental Health Services Received While in Foster Care" by Margarita Villagrana (2023). Available here.
- "Interventions in Foster Family Care: A Systematic Review" by Martin Bergström et. al (2020). Available here.
- "Listening to Advice from Young People in Foster Care—From Participation to Belonging" by Marte Fylkesnes (2021). Available here.
These articles are a selection of available externally:
- "New Data Shows a Consistent Decrease of Children in Foster Care" by Administration on Children and Families (2024). Available here.
- "The Failures and Future of the U.S. Foster Care System" by the Policy Circle (2024). Available here.
- "FOSTER CARE INVESTIGATION: Sen. Ossoff Presses Federal Agencies Amidst Bipartisan Probe into Safety of Foster Kids" (2023). Available here.
Data and Statistics
"Trends in Foster Care and Adoption: FY 2013 – 2022"
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Children's Bureau: Data sets on adoption and foster care for 2013 – 2022
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National Dataset 2013-2022 (XLSX)
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State Dataset 2013-2022 (XLSX)
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