What Works in Foster Care?
What Works in Foster Care?

Author: Peter J. Pecora

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0195175913

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The Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study found that quality foster care services for children pay big dividends when they grow up. Key investments in highly trained staff, low caseloads and robust complementary services can dramatically reduce rates of mental disorders and substance abuse. This book offers a model foster care programme.

How Does Foster Care Work?
How Does Foster Care Work?

Author: Elizabeth Fernandez

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2011-01-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0857003895

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How Does Foster Care Work? is an international collection of empirical studies on the outcomes of children in foster care. Drawing on research and perspectives from leading international figures in children's services across the developed world, the book provides an evidence base for programme planning, policy and practice. This volume establishes a platform for comparison of international systems, trends and outcomes in foster care today. Each contributor provides a commentary on one other chapter to highlight the global significance of issues affecting children and young people in care. Each chapter offers new ideas about how foster care could be financed, delivered or studied in order to become more effective. This book is important reading for anyone involved in delivering child welfare services, such as administrators, practitioners, researchers, policy makers, children's advocates, academics and students.

Making Managed Health Care Work for Kids in Foster Care
Making Managed Health Care Work for Kids in Foster Care

Author: Ellen Sittenfeld Battistelli

Publisher: CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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All children are dependent on others for their care and well-being, but children in foster care are uniquely dependent upon governments and their agencies and services. These children have complex problems rooted in family, social, and environmental conditions, and often need a broad range of health, mental health, and developmental services to overcome the effects of abuse and neglect. This guide will help purchasers of managed health care understand the complex health care and social service needs of children in foster care.

Foster Children
Foster Children

Author: Ian Sinclair

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1843102781

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Drawing on the findings of the largest recent study into foster care in the UK, and including quotes from children themselves, this book examines the impact on children three years after they have left foster care.

Social Work and Foster Care
Social Work and Foster Care

Author: Helen Cosis Brown

Publisher: Learning Matters

Published: 2014-02-17

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1446297705

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Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.

Social Work and Foster Care
Social Work and Foster Care

Author: Helen Cosis Brown

Publisher: Learning Matters

Published: 2014-02-17

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1446297691

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Working with children in foster care is a demanding and rigorous aspect of social work practice. Difficult decisions in fast-moving and often complex situations have to be made, and for students and practitioners alike, there is a vast array of legislation, law and social policy to understand. This book is written to help social workers and social work students get to grips with the complexity of foster care. The child is placed at the heart of the text and there are substantial chapters on law, policy frameworks and the overreaching theoretical and research evidence to support good practice. There is also a strong focus on practical skills such as empathy and relationship-based practice. This is an essential text for experienced social workers or those currently in training.