Foster care re-entry: Exploring the role of foster care characteristics, in-home child welfare services and cross-sector services

Preventing re-entry to foster care.

Re-entry to foster care generally refers to circumstances in which children who have been discharged from foster care to be reunified with their family of origin, adopted, or provided kinship guardianship are returned to foster care. In the context of the federal performance measurement system, re-entry refers specifically to a return to foster care following an unsuccessful reunification. The ...

Health and mental health services for children in foster care: the central role of foster parents.

It is well documented that children enter foster care with special health and mental health needs and, while in care, those conditions are often exacerbated. However, less attention has been given to foster parents who have the most contact with these children. Results are presented from a national study on the developmental, health and mental health care needs of children in foster care that i...

Health and Development Services for Children with Multiple Needs: The Child in Foster Care

Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Placements

Malpractice in child placement: civil liability for inadequate foster care services.

Civil liability for professional malpractice has become a major concern of child welfare workers and their agencies. For example, the 1982 Annual Meeting of the American Humane Association focused its agenda on caseworker liability. Also, the National Association of Social Workers has formed a special ad hoc group on caseworker liability, started publishing materials on the subject, and encoura...