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The Help with Fostering Inventory
- Authors:
- ORME John G., CHERRY Donna J., RHODES Kathryn W.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 28(11), November 2006, pp.1293-1311.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
This article presents a new measure of social support specific to fostering, the Help with Fostering Inventory (HFI). It was tested with a national sample of 304 foster mothers, and 111 foster parent couples. It measures help from worship groups (HFI-W), extended kin (HFI-K), and professionals (HFI-P). The HFI-W has excellent reliability for foster mothers and fathers; the HFI-P has good reliability for mothers, but was not tested with fathers; and the HFI-K has adequate reliability for mothers, but marginal reliability for fathers. Strong support exists for the validity of the HFI for mothers but not fathers; one or more subscales predicted important behavioural outcomes for mothers, including number of years fostered, number of children licensed to foster, intention to continue fostering, number of children fostered, and number of children adopted.
Measuring service delivery in a placement prevention program: an application to an ecological model
- Authors:
- CASH Scottye, BERRY Marianne
- Journal article citation:
- Administration in Social Work, 27(3), 2003, pp.65-85.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Reports on a service delivery tracking log developed by a family-based prevention programme to assist workers in documenting various service elements and in assessing treatment fidelity. When caseworkers used the new service instrument in stead of narrative case notes to document services delivered, researchers and programme administrators were able to assess, quantitatively, the extent to which these principles were enacted, and where the programme had drifted from service tenets. Describes the service instrument, illustrates its potential use to determine treatment fidelity and implement the programme evaluation process within a child welfare context. (Copies of this article are available from: Haworth Document Delivery Centre, Haworth Press Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580).
Understanding reentry to out-of-home care for reunified infants
- Authors:
- FRAME Laura, BERRICK Jill Duerr, BRODOWSKI Melissa Lim
- Journal article citation:
- Child Welfare Journal, 79(4), July 2000, pp.339-369.
- Publisher:
- Child Welfare League of America
Although many children placed in out-of-home care are reunified with their families of origin, a significant portion reenter care, reflecting continued family problems and weaknesses within the child welfare system. For infants, the stability of reunification is particularly crucial, given their developmental stage. This study reviewed the case records of randomly selected infants who had been reunified with their families. Thirty-two percent of those infants reentered care within four to six years of their reunification. The identification of factors predictive of reentry into care has both policy and practice implications.
Which child, which family
- Author:
- VEEVES Heather Millard
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 15(1), 1991, pp.42-46.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Discusses problems in matching children to new parents.
All in the family
- Author:
- CAUGHEY Julia
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 27.4.88, 1988, pp.71-72.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Learner nurses spent a week on placement living with families with a mentally handicapped child.
Patterns of family placement: current issues in fostering and adoption
- Author:
- COOPER Joan D
- Publisher:
- National Children's Bureau
- Publication year:
- 1978
- Pagination:
- 119p.
- Place of publication:
- London
An investigation of family finding and matching in adoption: briefing paper
- Authors:
- FARMER Elaine, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 9p.
- Place of publication:
- London
... to adoption workers, using in-house profiling events as a primary method of family finding, using formal monitoring processes to track the progress of adoption cases, and using the Adult Attachment Interview in assessing prospective adoptive families. This paper summarises the key findings, covering quality of information, family finding, matching, quality of the matches made, delay, the relationship
Children placed with family and friends: placement patterns and outcomes: executive summary
- Authors:
- FARMER Elaine, MOYERS Sue
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This study was undertaken to provide information about the characteristics, progress and outcomes of children placed with family and friends, to compare these with a similar group of children placed with unrelated foster carers and to consider the factors that contributed to success in family and friends placements. In addition, through interviews with participants we hoped to shed light on the needs of these children and their carers.
Boarding school placement: a children's views report
- Author:
- MORGAN Roger
- Publisher:
- Commission for Social Care Inspection. Office of the Children's Rights Director
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 24p.
- Place of publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
The report focuses on the views of children who board because they need to live away from home for a variety of reasons. The children and young people said some of the advantages of boarding were: being with friends; learning to live with people even if they did not like them; receiving constant educational and personal support. However, among the disadvantages, they cited: missing their family; in some cases staying at school at the weekends; loss of privacy; and missing the new friends they met when they had to leave.
Reuniting looked after children with their families
- Author:
- JOSEPH ROWNTREE FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 4p.
- Place of publication:
- York
Many children return home quite quickly after entering care placements, but the probability of return declines sharply once six months have elapsed. This pattern has been widely misinterpreted as implying that the passage of time in itself diminishes the likelihood of reunion, whereas time in care appears to be related to a variety of other factors. Similarly, the much-cited relationship between parental contact and the likelihood of reunion also appears to derive from a variety of other child, family and service factors. Children placed due to behaviour problems are more likely to return home than those placed due to abuse, neglect or parental problems. Children placed because of physical or sexual abuse are more likely to return home than those placed due to neglect. There is some evidence that purposeful social work activity is an important ingredient in successful reunion. Evidence from a small number of UK studies suggests that between one-third and one half of children who return home may subsequently re-enter care or accommodation. There has been little research on the outcomes of reunion, but the evidence suggests that some children who return experience re-abuse or neglect. The limited evidence on psychosocial outcomes of reunion suggests that reunited children may have more serious emotional and behavioural problems than those who remain looked after.