Foster Care and Reintegration: Different Portuguese Similarities

Family reintegration of children and adolescents in foster care in Brazilian municipalities with different population sizes.

The scope of this article is to present and analyze data from Brazilian foster care services for children / adolescents from the perspective of family reintegration. It also seeks to support the implementation of public policies in order to provide effective reintegration in accordance with the differing local contexts. It uses data from 1,157 municipalities that have foster care services. The ...

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...

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