A Sense of Belonging: Meanings of Family and Home in Long-Term Foster Care

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 955-971 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Biehal
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Sense Of Belonging

Unaccompanied immigrant children in long term foster care: Identifying needs and best practices from a child welfare perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 56-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Crea ◽  
Anayeli Lopez ◽  
Robert G. Hasson ◽  
Kerri Evans ◽  
Caroline Palleschi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Immigrant Children

scholarly journals Cautious Belonging: Relationships in Long-Term Foster-Care

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 720-738 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Christiansen ◽  
K. J. S. Havnen ◽  
T. Havik ◽  
N. Anderssen
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care

The long-term correlates of family foster care

2000 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 595-625 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Buehler ◽  
John G. Orme ◽  
James Post ◽  
David A. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Family Foster Care

Assessing the Health Status of Children Entering Foster Care

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 594-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Chernoff ◽  
Terri Combs-Orme ◽  
Christina Risley-Curtiss ◽  
Alice Heisler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Foster Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Children In Foster Care ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Complete Health ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short Time

Objective. Most research on health problems of children in foster care has been cross-sectional, resulting in overselection of children who have been in care long-term and underrepresentation of children who are in care for a short time. Methodology. This paper reports on the health of a large cohort of children who had complete health examinations at the time of entry into foster care in a middle-size city during a 2-year period. Results. Results indicate that >90% of the children had an abnormality in atleast one body system, 25% failed the vision screen, and 15% failed the hearing screen. The children were also lighter and shorter than the norm. Mental health screening revealed that 75% had a family history of mental illness or drug or alcohol abuse. Of children older than 3 years of age, 15% admitted to or were suspect for suicidal ideation and 7% for homicidal ideation. Of the children younger than 5 years of age, 23% had abnormal or suspect results on developmental screening examinations. At the time of entry into foster care, 12% of the children required an antibiotic. More than half needed urgent or nonurgent referrals for medical services and, for children >3 years of age, more than half needed urgent or nonurgent referrals for dental and mental health services. Just 12% of the children required only routine follow-up care. Conclusions. The high prevalence and broad range of health needs of children at the time they enter foster care necessitate the design and implementation of better models of health care delivery for children in foster care.

Reinforcing and Opening Communities through Innovative Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 380-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandra Agostini ◽  
Valeria Giannella ◽  
Antonietta Grasso ◽  
Dave Snowdon ◽  
Michael Koch
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Innovative Technology ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Community Knowledge ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
Future Plans

The aim of the Campiello1 research project (Esprit Long Term Research #25572) is to promote and sustain the meeting of inhabitants and tourists in historical cities of art and culture. This overall objective is undertaken in two main steps: reinforcing the community bounds via collective participation in both creating community knowledge and optimizing access to it. Once the local community’s sense of belonging has been reinforced, sharing its knowledge with outside people will become more natural. In this paper first we present the various technological aspects, as well as where and how innovative technology can help local communities. Then we present the context of experimentation, future plans and current achievements in one of the two project settings: Venice.

Outcomes in Adulthood After Long-Term Foster Care: A Sibling Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Lars Brännström ◽  
Bo Vinnerljung ◽  
Anders Hjern
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Mature Adult ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
National Cohort

When a child is removed from their home and placed in foster care, society takes over the responsibility for that child’s well-being and development. Failure to provide a child with a nurturing upbringing may have negative consequences for the child as well as for society. Using Swedish longitudinal registry data for a national cohort sample of siblings, in which some were placed in foster care and others remained in their birth parents’ care, this study asks whether long-term foster care ensures improved life chances. Results from multilevel regression analyses of a wide range of educational, social, and health-related outcomes in mature adult age (16 outcome constructs) support a row of previous studies indicating that traditional long-term foster care does not seem to improve maltreated children’s life chances.

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