Research Studies

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Reintegrating Youth Who Have Severe Emotional and Behavioral Problems (Article)

This study, following six youth, addresses the challenges of "reunification with family and reintegration into the community," with suggestions by the authors as how to overcome the obstacles....

Social and Life Skills Development: Preparing and Facilitating Youth for Transition into Young Adults (Article)

"This chapter reviews literature on the effectiveness of independent living programs. It describes innovative strategies at the community and State levels to prepare youth to transition to adulthood and presents evolving evidence-informed practices and as...

Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care (Article)

"Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, this text recommends how to achieve and sustain family permanence for older children and youth in foster care."...

Youth Permanence Through Adoption (Article)

"This chapter examines agency practices, programs, and federal policies that affect the likelihood of adoption for youth who are in foster care. A range of continuing practice challenges to adoption for youth are identified, ways to address practice issue...

Ambiguous Loss Haunts Foster and Adopted Children (Article)

"This brief explains the ambiguous loss felt by parents of adopted children with special needs, birth parents, and foster and adopted children."...

A New Look at the Role of ASFA and Children's Ages in Adoption (Article)

"This brief examines the impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) on adoption to determine if the hoped-for outcomes have been or are being achieved."...

Exploring Infertility Issues in Adoption (Article)

From the British Association for Adoption & Fostering (BAAF): "How might experience of infertility affect prospective adopters? What issues need to be considered during the assessment process? How can this topic be explored sensitively by workers, while d...

Barbara Taylor Blomquist (Article)

"Written for adoptive parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers, this guide describes the difficulties that some children experience as they cope with the reality of their adoption."...

The Texas School Disciplinary System and Foster Care Children (Article)

"Students in foster care are under the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) because of abuse or neglect."...

States' Strategies for Youth Aging Out of Care (Article)

"The National Association of Public Child Welfare Administrators (NAPCWA) now provides a snapshot on its website showing how different States use programs and resources around youth in foster care or those aging out of the public child welfare system."...

Common Threads: Stories of Life After Trauma (Article)

Therapists, Marcel A. Duclos M.Ed, M.Th. & Connie Robillard, MA have created a documentary in partnership with film maker, Amber Ward, based on their book, Common Threads: Stories of Life After Trauma. This film speaks about and for children who have exp...

Common Threads: Stories of Life After Trauma (Article)

The stories cover many topics including child abuse, domestic violence,divorce, and the long term effects of emotional abuse and physical abuse within a family. This is the story of two psychotherapists who have worked in the field of trauma and healing....

De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized (Article)

Minority children in foster care are being ill-served by a federal law that plays down race and culture in adoptions, a report released on Tuesday said To read more please subscribe....

Adoption Statistics (Article)

I have been asked by several people to give them the statistics I mentioned at our Leadership Conference so I thought I would send this out to all. I got them from other speakers at 2 different conferences ( Focus on the Family and Family Life's Orphan Su...

National Council For Adoption Releases Report on Parent Recruitment and Training Expenditures (Article)

October 2,2007 Alexandria,Virginia The National Council For Adoption (NCFA) today announces the release of its new report on federal foster care financing entitled Parent Recruitment and Training: A Crucial Neglected Child Welfare Strategy, describing how...