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Housing & Child Welfare
Information on housing issues and programs for families and youth receiving child welfare services.
Family Unification Vouchers
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Information on how to apply for family unification vouchers, which provide rental subsidies to families with children who have been placed, or are at risk of placement, in foster care primarily because the family lacks adequate housing.
Front Porches: Bringing Families Together
Missouri's Children's Trust Fund Board (1998)
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Describes Front Porches, a program of the Children's Trust Fund and a consortium of community agencies that demonstrates the viability of a family empowerment/community volunteer model to develop a comprehensive, neighborhood-based program focused on the family.
Housing and Foster Care: Five Model Programs
American Public Welfare Association (1996)
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Describes five model programs that exemplify successful cooperation between public child welfare agencies and local or State housing agencies to provide housing for families and youth.
Housing Problems Experienced by Recipients of Child Welfare Services
Courtney, McMurtry, & Zinn
Child Welfare, 83(5), 2004
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Study uses data on the experiences of families involved with child welfare services to examine the nature of housing problems and needs among these families and whether housing status affects case outcomes.
Innovations in Child Welfare From Across America: A Special Report by the Editor of Child Protection Report
Child Protection Report (2004)
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Describes innovative approaches being used to address housing, health care, court procedures, childcare, and mental health care for children and families.
Reunifying Families, Cutting Costs: Housing-Child Welfare Partnerships for Permanent Supportive Housing
Harburger & White
Child Welfare, 83(5), 2004
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Recommendations for cost-effective housing-child welfare partnerships that will shift the burden of providing adequate housing back to housing agencies.
Strengthening the Tie That Binds: Project Keeps Families Under One Roof
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2003)
Results from grants given under the Family Unification Program, which provides rent subsidies to low-income families who were in danger of being split up or whose children were unable to return to their parents because of housing problems.
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