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Outcomes for Children in Family Foster Care
Findings from studies or assessments of children living in family foster care, including State and local examples.
Assessing Key Results in Family Foster Care Using Multiple Measurement Approaches
Pecora, Williams, Downs, White, & Schockner (2002)
In Evaluation in Child and Family Services: Comparative Client and Program Perspectives
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Reviews the need for outcome measurement and the relative merits of three approaches to measuring program results, including case record reviews, retrospective alumni interviews, and prospective collection of functional outcome data.
How Are the Children Doing? Assessing Youth Outcomes in Family Foster Care. Part 2.
Casey Family Program (2002)
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This update to the Casey Outcomes Study examined the functioning of foster youth served in the Casey Family Program during the 3-year period following the initial evaluation.
Improving Family Foster Care: Findings From the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study (PDF - 459 KB)
Casey Family Programs (2005)
Data from case records and interviews with alumni of foster care programs in Washington and Oregon were used to explore the link between foster care services and later mental health status, educational achievement, employment, and financial stability. View the full report. (PDF - 1528 KB)
The Long-Term Correlates of Family Foster Care
Buehler, Orme, Post, & Patterson
Children and Youth Services Review, 22(8), 2000
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Examined long-term correlates of experiencing family foster care sometime before the age of 19. Subjects for the study were selected from participants in the 1988 National Survey of Families and Households.
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State and local examples
D.C. Child and Family Services Agency: More Focus Needed on Human Capital Management Issues for Caseworkers and Foster Parent Recruitment and Retention: Report to Congressional Committees (PDF - 1035 KB)
United States Government Accountability Office (2004)
Report to Congress on financial management of foster care funds.
More Foster Families, Fewer Children Entering Care: Rebuilding Family Foster Care in Cuyahoga and Anne Arundel Counties (PDF - 919 KB)
Pascual (2000)
The Family to Family program developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation promotes family reunification by recruiting foster families within the child's community and training them to work with birth parents as part of a team.
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