Children who are in
foster care as a result of voluntary placement by a parent or guardian;
Accusations of mismanagement and abuse by a Portland-area
foster care provider led Gov.
Pending regulatory approvals, the company's new contract is expected to commence in November 2015 and expects to serve up to 25,000
foster care members.
The past four decades have seen increased scholarly interest in the experiences of children in the
foster care system and key volumes have been devoted to this topic (Geiser, 1973; Hegar& Scannapieco, 1999; Shonkoff& Phillips, 2000; Sinclair, Wilson, & Gibbs, 2005).
A study by the Chapin Hall Center for Children in Chicago found that 19-year-olds in Illinois who chose to remain in
foster care for three more years stayed in school longer, fared better financially and had fewer scrapes with the law than did their peers in Iowa and Wisconsin, who were required to leave care at age 18.
8220;These findings help all of us understand that we have a long way to go to meet our education responsibilities to students in
foster care,” said Holly Jacobson, Director of the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd.
Also, because we are very much into healthy activities that can improve the lifestyle of young people in
foster care, we thought keeping children active through a weekly football day might be a good idea.
Public assistance use has been consistently found to be used more frequently by
foster care alumni than general population adults.
Although there has been great variability across the states in the proportion of children in
foster care using atypical antipsychotics or multiple medications in combination, many states have responded by trying to increase the oversight of psychotropic medication use.
Actor Paul Barber with Dina Nixon and Colette Jarvis, from Sefton's Children's Services, launching
Foster Care Fortnight Picture: DENNIS BRADBURY/ db070509dfostercare-4
The articles gave information about problems with private agencies stating that they are not doing a proper job, children are being returned to abusive homes and coming back to
foster care with even more scars.
I was pleased to see the recent examination of the
foster care system in Clinical Psychiatry News ("
Foster Care: Casey Program a Good Model," Prevention in Action, July 2008, p.
