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Youth in Foster Care
Language: en
Pages: 164
Authors: Bonita Evans
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-25 - Publisher: Routledge

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First published in 1998. Part of the Children of Poverty series which includes studies on the effects of single parenthood, the feminization of poverty and home
On Their Own
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Martha Shirk
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-08-08 - Publisher: Basic Books

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Each year, as many as 25,000 teenagers "age out" of foster care, usually when they turn eighteen. For years, a government agency had made every important decisi
Away From Home
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Sarah Fathallah
Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-21 - Publisher: Think of Us

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Institutional placements in foster care are out-of-home, non-family placements where some foster youth are sent to live. Each year, of the hundreds of thousands
Achieving Permanence for Older Children and Youth in Foster Care
Language: en
Pages: 415
Authors: Benjamin Kerman
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-12 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Through a novel integration of child welfare data, policy analysis, and evidence-informed youth permanency practice, the essays in this volume show how to achie
LGBTQ Youth in Foster Care
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Adam McCormick
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-19 - Publisher: Routledge

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Representing an often overlooked population in social work literature, this book explores the experiences of LGBTQ youth as they navigate the child welfare syst