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Foster Care Placements

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Issue Brief

 

Foster Care Placements  

 

Goal Statement   


  • To improve the functionality of the foster care system as a whole, with emphasis on the micro and macro levels of the child welfare system.
  • To provide appropriate placement for all children in foster care.

 

Local/State/National Information


 

Policy Options / Model Programs   specific policies or program models, grouped by type, that are profiled 


  • Model Program

    • Safe Families for ChildrenSafe Families for Children hosts vulnerable children and creates extended family–like supports for desperate families through a community of devoted volunteers who are motivated by compassion to keep children safe and families intact. article

 

 

  • H.R. 6893 -The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act(2007)-Providing support to relatives,generally grandparents, aunts and uncles, so they are more able to provide care for children in their own families.

  • H.R. 5403-Safe and Timely Interstate Placement of Foster Children Act (2006)-Enacted July 3,2006-To improve protections for children and to hole States accountable for the safe and timely placement of children across State lines.

  • S. 1894-Fair Access Foster Care Act of 2005-To amend part E of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow foster care maintenance payments to be paid on behalf of eligible children through a nonprofit or for profit child-placement or child care agency. 

 

  • These competencies for child welfare staff are fundamental to the implementation of a child centered, family-focused practice model:
    • Strength-based family engagement.
    • Written and verbal communication.
    • Collaboration.
    • Interviewing skills.
    • Assessment.
    • Service planning.
    • Intervention.
    • Critical thinking.
    • Cultural competence.
    • Facilitation skills.
    • Transitional supports.
  • Implementation of  Practices listed below and supported strategies (Interventions) are intended to achieve outcomes that are successful and in line with the child welfare agencies values.      

  • Practices:

    • Engage Families.

    • Engage youth and provide normative experiences.

    • Strengthen caregiver capacity to protect and provide for children. 

    • Facilitate safe out-of-home placements and rapid permanency.

    • Develop a trauma-informed system.

    • Support a racially equitable and culturally competent system.

    • Address individual family needs through comprehensive family assessments.

    • Develop organizational effectiveness.

  • Interventions:

    • Family Team Meetings

    • Coached Family Visits

    • Family Assessment Response

    • Child-Centered, Family-Focused Practice

    • Promotion of Independent Living Skills

    • Youth Advisory Boards

    • Education and Training Voucher Program.

    • DV (Domestic Violence) informed child welfare practices 

    • Evidence-based, evidence-informed and promising community based programs.

      • Family Resource Centers

      • Parenting Programs

      • Prevention Programs.

    • Post adoption education

    • Permanency Roundtables

    • Runaway and Homeless Youth Shelters

    • Family Finding

    • Court Improvement Project

    • Trauma training for caseworkers, supervisors, adoptive families, and foster families.

    • Secondary Trauma Training

    • Racial Equity and Cultural competency learning exchange

    • Undoing racism training

    • State and Tribal Nation Collaboration

    • Working with LGBTQ youth and families.   

 

Glossary of Terms   key words or phrases that the layperson needs to know to understand this issue 


  • Child Placing Agent - 
  • Permanency at discharge - return home, permanent placement with relatives (guardianship), or finalized adoption at discharge from placement. 
  • Subsequent Out of Home Placements - Number of placements the child has had out of their biological families home. 
  • Per Episode length of stay - per episode length of stay without episodes of care with a discharge setting of runaway for each placement type. 
  • Prior any placement - any community or residential placement prior to episode of care. 
  • Reunification - A child reintegrating with their biological family. 

 

Bibliography    


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