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Service Needs of Children & Youth With Disabilities in Out-of-Home Care
Resources addressing the additional service needs of children and youth with disabilities and their caregivers. Includes information on educational, medical, and transitional services for children and youth.
Are We Ignoring Foster Youth With Disabilities? An Awareness Document for Parents, Professionals and Youth (PDF - 33 KB)
Center on Self-Determination & Fostering Futures (2003)
Discusses issues of foster youth with disabilities in educational settings.
Estimates of Supplemental Security Income Eligibility for Children in Out-of-Home Placements
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (2008)
Examines Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility among children living in out-of-home care in the child welfare system, using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Indicates that a large number of children living in foster care may be eligible for SSI. (PDF - 520 KB)
Functional Limitations and Key Indicators of Well-Being in Children With Disability
Hogan, Rogers, & Msall
Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 154(10), 2000
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Study to compare measures of well-being in children with and without different types and severity of limitations.
Impact of Disability on Case Planning for Young Children in Foster Care
Bruhn (2003)
In Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates and Faculty for Investigator-Initiated Research in Child Abuse and Neglect Final Report
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Reports preliminary results of a study that compared case planning for foster children with and without disabilities.
Improving Special Education for Children With Disabilities in Foster Care (PDF - 212 KB)
Van Wingerden, Emerson, & Ichikawa (2002)
Identifies specific needs and strategies regarding foster children with disabilities that the authors hoped to see addressed in the 2002 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Meeting the Health Care Needs of Children in the Foster Care System: Fact Sheet (PDF - 129 KB)
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (2004)
Description of New Alternatives for Children, a program that facilitates permanency for medically fragile children ready for release from the hospital.
Out-of-Home Placement for Young Children With Developmental and Medical Conditions
Rosenberg & Robinson
Children and Youth Services Review, 26(8), 2004
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Examines the impact of developmental and health problems of young children on child welfare outcomes.
Service Needs of Foster Families With Children Who Have Disabilities
Brown, Moraes, & Mayhew
Journal of Child and Family Studies, 14(3), 2005
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Examines the service needs of foster families with children who have disabilities.
Special Education and Foster Care: State Policies Leave Foster Children With Disabilities Unprotected in the Special Education System
Tubbs (2002)
Discussion of how New Jersey policies do not protect foster children with disabilities in the special education system.
Transition for Youth with Disabilities: A Look at State Programs, Progress, and Promising Practices (PDF - 464 KB)
The Center for Workers with Disabilities' Task Force on Youth in Transition (2006)
Looks at state programs to help youth with disabilities with the transition to adulthood. (Word - 619 KB)
Transition Planning for Foster Youth With Disabilities: Are We Falling Short? An Awareness Document for Parents, Professionals and Youth (PDF - 32 KB)
Fostering Futures Project (2004)
Discusses transition planning for foster youth with disabilities, including a needs assessment for this population and strategies for improved outcomes.
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