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Adolescents in foster families
- Authors:
- ALGATE Jane, MALUCCIO Anthony, REEVES Christine
- Publisher:
- Batsford/British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 191p., diags., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Field overview of British and American work involving the successful placement of adolescents.
Fostering teenagers - what works for whom and why?
- Authors:
- O'HARA G., DEWER C.
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 12(2), 1988, pp.38-43.
- Publisher:
- Sage
How parental links are maintained and how placements work out in Lothian SWD's teenage foster parent scheme.
Adolescence and fostering
- Author:
- HIPGRAVE Tony
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 7(4), 1983, pp.39-43.
- Publisher:
- Sage
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Placing adolescents in families
- Authors:
- FALLON Mike, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 7(4), 1983, pp.43-46.
- Publisher:
- Sage
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Reframing transition age foster youth: a communications toolkit
- Author:
- FRAMEWORKS INSTITUTE
- Publisher:
- FrameWorks Institute
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
The resources in this toolkit are designed to collectively build the understanding and support we need to change the narrative around transition age foster youth. Building public support for transition age foster youth—young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are transitioning out of the foster care system—is a critical part of making sure they have what they need to become healthy, happy, thriving adults. Once people learn who transition age foster youth are, they are generally sympathetic but still struggle to think about ways to support them. Three important barriers to people’s thinking must be overcome to build public engagement and support for transition age foster youth: people tend to think of transition age foster youth as permanently damaged by the experiences that led them to foster care and their experiences in the foster care system; individualistic, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” thinking about success limits their understanding of systemic solutions; people assume that any young person can become involved in the foster care system—which impedes their understanding of how racism and socioeconomic disparities shape foster care involvement and experiences as youths transition out of the system. As a result, people have a hard time understanding how the right policies, programs, and practices are necessary for transition age foster youths to successfully transition to adulthood. These tools are designed to help you develop that understanding among your audiences. (Edited publisher abstract)
Promoting assertiveness in youth in foster care: pilot testing a brief intervention in a randomized trial
- Authors:
- BLOCKER Madeline S., NOELL George H., CLARK Kelly N.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 126, 2021, p.106035.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Children in foster care lead their lives at an increased risk for mental health issues. Often, these are complicated by the unstable and unpredictable nature of their living arrangements and interpersonal relationships. As such, there is substantial need to examine brief therapies and interventions for use with children in foster care and children who have experienced similar trauma and instability. The present study is a pilot investigation of the efficacy of a brief behavioral intervention targeting help-seeking behavior and assertiveness skills provided to a sample of children in foster care (N = 23). Three, 30-min group sessions of a targeted assertiveness skills intervention were developed and conducted on a sample of children in foster care and compared to an assessment-only control group. Measures of assertive tendencies, emotions towards seeking help, and assertive help-seeking skills were collected at pretest and posttest to assess the efficacy of the intervention. Participants who received the intervention significantly improved on measures of general assertiveness, F(1, 20) = 9.672, p < 0.01, d = 1.33, MD = 2.73, 95% CI [−0.90, 4.56], and assertiveness skills, F(1, 20) = 24.237, p < 0.01, d = 1.78, MD = 15.54, 95% CI [8.96, 22.13], though not on the measure of emotions towards situations in which they would use these skills to seek help, F(1, 20) = 2.218, p = 0.152, d = 0.37, MD = 6.36, 95% CI [−2.55, 15.28]). These findings provide preliminary support for the use of a brief intervention to teach assertiveness and help-seeking skills to a population of children in the foster system who are uniquely in need of brief intervention due to the instability of their living arrangements. Limitations, future directions, and implications are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
Advancing wellbeing and expanding opportunities: reframing transition age foster youth
- Authors:
- O'NEIL Moira, PINEAU Marisa Gertsein
- Publisher:
- FrameWorks Institute
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 37
- Place of publication:
- Washington, DC
This report presents findings from the second, prescriptive phase of the Reframing Transition Age Foster Youth research project, which developed and tested framing strategies for their ability to: expand public understanding of who transition age foster youth are and the kinds of supports they need; cultivate productive attitudes toward transition age foster youth; increase support for policies and programs that support transition age foster youth as they become adults. The paper identifies two narratives to improve understanding and build support for addressing the needs of transition age foster youth. The first narrative, Advancing Wellbeing, shows people how effective supports aid the healthy biological, psychological, and emotional development of transition age foster youth. The second narrative, Expanding Opportunities, helps people understand the racial and economic factors that create disparities leading to foster care involvement, the disparities perpetuated by that system, and the ways in which supports for transition age foster youth can address those inequities. This strategic brief outlines how we can do this together by showing the most effective ways to change perceptions and build support for reform; giving examples of what this looks like in practice; reviewing the research that underlies each recommendation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Locating “youth voice:” considering the contexts of speaking in foster care
- Author:
- NYBELL Lynn M.
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 35(8), 2013, pp.1227-1235.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Drawing on the narratives of young people who grew up in foster care, this article examines stories of their efforts to impact the course of their own lives. It explores the ways that very specific contexts and relationships of power shaped the utterances of young people in the foster care system and distorted, muted, or amplified their abilities to express their need and interests. This is a beginning attempt to identify ways that contexts of speaking in foster care can be understood and altered in order to strengthen the capacity of young people to voice their concerns and aspirations. (Edited publisher abstract)
Patterns of movement in foster care: an optimal matching analysis
- Author:
- HAVLICEK Judy
- Journal article citation:
- Social Service Review, 84(3), September 2010, pp.403-435.
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Foster children who reach the age of majority during foster care are known to face many challenges in becoming self-sufficient. These included under-education, unemployment, homelessness, poverty and incarceration. Also, placement instability remains a difficult problem for child welfare agencies across the country. This study used child welfare administrative data to retrospectively follow the entire placement histories, from birth to 17 years, of 474 foster children who reached the age of majority in the state of Illinois, United States. It also searched for patterns in their movement through the child welfare system. Patterns were identified through optimal matching and hierarchical cluster analyses. Multiple logistic regression analysis was used to study administrative and survey data in order to examine covariates related to patterns. Five distinct patterns of movement were differentiated: late movers; settled with kin; community care; institutionalised; and early entry. The author concluded that these patterns are suggestive of high but variable rates of movement.
What matters in fostering adolescents?
- Authors:
- LIPSCOMBE Jo, FARMER Elaine
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work and Social Sciences Review, 13(1), 2007, pp.41-58.
- Publisher:
- Whiting and Birch
The White Paper Care Matters: Time for change (2007) sets out the British government's plans to improve outcomes for children in care. For example, a tiered model of placement types, structured around the level of complexity of children's needs, will inform placement commissioning. However, on the whole the White Paper does not differentiate between the needs of children according to age, even though evidence suggests that providing foster care for adolescents can be more challenging and complex than providing care for younger children. Drawing on a longitudinal study of adolescent foster care, this paper highlights some of the needs specific to adolescents, as opposed to younger children; the skills and strategies that carers need to develop to care for adolescents and the supports that children's services and other agencies should provide for such placements. The paper argues that increased attention to these issues would assist in sustaining the placements of the great majority of fostered young people who will not have access to highly specialised treatment foster care.