Alcohol control and foster care

Foster Care

a child care service, it is surprising that there is still a great deal of confusion as to the conditions under which children are fostered in private homes. It is believed generally that it is better for a child who is deprived of the care of the family of origin to be brought up in another private family rather than in a children's home with a professional staff. There is little evidence, how...

Foster Care

a former foster child, I am inclined to see the Irtish child care service as being tied up with red ^Pe. But fortunately, there are many people in he service itself who are trying desperately to cut l^'s red tape and to pioneer child care with a 'new ??k', similar to the methods already being used successfully in The Netherlands and Denmark, both these countries, the most outstanding ^aiity see...

The Living Situations of Children in Foster Care: Which is Better, Kinship Foster Care or Non-Kinship Foster Care?

i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would sincerely like to thank Dr. Stacia Robertson for helping my paper come together and being a wonderful advocate. Michelle Mansfield has been a great aid in making sure that everything in the program went as planned. I really appreciate how I could call Ms. Mansfield for any questions I had. I would also like to thank Grant Drawve for helping me with my formatting. I wo...

Risk factors for alcohol and marijuana use among adolescents in foster care.

This study examined the influences of individual and social risk factors on alcohol and marijuana use among a sample of foster care adolescents. Data were collected through baseline structured interviews with 320 adolescents (aged 15-18 years) who resided in foster care placements and participated in a larger evaluation study of an independent living program. Approximately 40% of the adolescent...

Differences in Morbidity Among Children in Foster Care and Non-foster Care Children