Risk reduction and strength enhancement are both necessary strategies to improve
outcomes for youth in foster care who have experienced adversity. Decades of research …

Child welfare systems focus on achieving legal permanency within specific timeframes.
Once a child has achieved legal permanency, there is an assumption that youth develop …

Youth in foster care can experience educational success. Yet, studies have tended to focus
on their educational challenges and achievement gaps. Compared to their counterparts …

Research, practice, and policy focus on the importance of relationships with young people
aging out of foster care, especially relational permanency. While previous research has …

Background Resource parent trainings are an important factor in caregiver readiness and
retention, which can improve placement stability and permanency achievement for children …

Much as one would like to be able to base permanency decisions on the solid ground of
empirical findings and objective knowledge, the nature of child abuse precludes this …

Local authorities in England are required to routinely collect administrative data on children
in care and cross-sectional analyses of national data are published by central government …

This paper reports on a qualitative study of outcomes for permanence and stability for
children in long-term care in Ireland. The aim of this research was to inform social work …

Positive relationships with parents, caregivers and other adults are shown as critically
important in supporting child and adolescent development. One consequence for youth of …

This longitudinal study examines the child's place in the foster family through the use of
conventional names for familial figures (eg,'mum/dad') and through the foster parents' …