Selected Resources

What Works in Family Foster Care
Pecora & Maluccio (2000)
In What Works in Child Welfare
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Effective practices and outcomes of family foster care programs.

Foster Care Today: Overview of Family Foster Care
Barbell & Freundlich (2005)
In Child Welfare for the Twenty-first Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs
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Examines foster care at the start of the twenty-first century, including population trends, factors affecting the families and children served through foster care, and key aspects of practice.

Family to Family
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Information and tools about Family to Family, a family foster care reform initiative that focuses on strengthening the network of families available to care for children, building partnerships with neighborhoods, and tracking outcomes.

Foster Care as an Intervention for Abused and Neglected Children
Civic Research Institute (2005)
In Child Victimization: Maltreatment, Bullying and Dating Violence, Prevention and Intervention
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Summarizes research about the well-being of children in foster care and recently emancipated from care to determine its effectiveness.