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What are the key ingredients for long lasting foster care placements? In this study the lives and routines of 10 foster families, considered to be providers of effective and lasting care are examined. Featuring original research, the type of care that these families provide and the reason for their success is analysed.

Foster children --- Foster parents --- Foster families --- Parents --- Foster youth --- Children

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Children in public care complain that they have too many placements. Professionals agree but little is known about the reasons for this instability or how it affects different groups of children. The Pursuit of Permanence explores this core issue for children's services. Based on the largest study of the English care system in recent years, the book examines the children (what they need and what they want), their movements into, out of and within the care system, the nature and quality of their placements and the outcomes (whether the children are settled or happy). It analyses the reasons for

Children --- Social service --- Foster home care --- Foster children --- Foster youth --- Services for

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Approximately 400,000 children were living in foster care in fiscal year 2012, according to the most recent data available. The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 is an omnibus child welfare bill designed to ensure greater permanence and improve the well-being of children served by public child welfare agencies. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) oversees states' implementation of federal child welfare requirements. This book examines steps states have taken to implement selected provisions of the act and challenges they have faced, and the ext

Child welfare --- Foster children --- Adoption --- Foster youth --- Children --- Child placing --- Foster home care --- Parent and child --- Government policy

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This is an accessible book full of tested techniques and creative ideas for professionals who may have little time and few resources, but who need to carry out life story work that works. The author describes the conditions needed to carry out life story work and feature activities to accompany the different stages covered.

Adopted children --- Foster children --- Narrative therapy. --- Psychic trauma in children --- Social work with children. --- Children --- Storytelling --- Psychotherapy --- Foster youth --- Adopted infants --- Children, Adopted --- Services for. --- Treatment. --- Therapeutic use

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Foster Parenting Step-by-Step is a concise guide to fostering that summarizes what to expect as a foster parent. It guides you through the different stages of a fostering relationship, including common issues encountered at each age and how to tackle them. This is a book that strives to empower fostering parents with successful parenting skills.

Foster parents. --- Foster children. --- Parenting. --- Parent behavior --- Parental behavior in humans --- Child rearing --- Parent and child --- Parenthood --- Foster youth --- Children --- Foster families --- Parents