Safety and Stability for Foster Children
The Policy Context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12399656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | MaryLee Allen (corresponding author), M G Bissell, Mary Bissell |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-48 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Future of Children (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1054-8289 • E-ISSN: 1550-1558 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1602754 |
| PMID | 15072018 |
| OpenAlex | W1989923594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
Even though federal laws have had a major influence on foster care and child welfare policy for more than 40 years, additional reforms are needed to ensure safe and stable families for children in care. This article describes the complex array of policies that shape federal foster care and observes: A number of federal policies addressing issues such as housing, health care, welfare, social security benefits, taxes, and foster care reimbursement to the states, form the federal foster care policy framework. The Adoption and Safe Families Act significantly altered federal foster care policy by instituting key changes such as defining when it is reasonable to pursue family reunification, expediting timelines for making permanency decisions, recognizing kinship care as a permanency option, and providing incentives to the state for increasing the number of adoptions. Courts play a key and often overlooked role in achieving safety and permanency for children in foster care. Efforts to improve court performance have focused on increasing the responsiveness and capacity of courts. The article concludes with policy recommendations that are needed to improve the lives of children in foster care, such as increasing investments in children and families, redirecting funding incentives, addressing service gaps, and enhancing accountability
Accountability · Business · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Family preservation · Family reunification · Foster care · Health care · Incentive · Political science · Public economics · Public relations · Reimbursement · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Reunifying Children in Out-of-Home Care
Infants/toddlers in child welfare
Assessing Restrictiveness
Evaluation of the Illinois adoption preservation and linkages (Apal) program using a regression discontinuity design
Macro impacts on caseworker decision-making in child welfare
Research Review
Invisible Mothers
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism
Rethinking the role of early care and education in foster care
Do maltreated children who remain at home function better than those who are placed
Explaining the disparity in placement instability among African-American and white children in child welfare
Are bullying experiences and developmental assets associated with education outcomes for youth in foster care
Demographics, policy, and foster care rates; A Predictive Analytics Approach
Improving health services for foster youth
Lighthouse Independent Living Program
Reducing racial disparities and disproportionalities in the child welfare system
Living arrangements and level of care among clients discharged from a scattered-site housing-based independent living program
Application of the life course perspective in child welfare research
The revolving door of families in the child welfare system
Child welfare as a gateway to domestic violence services
Among Children Placed in Kinship Care
Understanding Responses to Foster Care
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,05 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |