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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Glossary -- ch. 1. An overview of foster care -- ch. 2. Legal framework and oversight of foster care -- ch. 3. Financing foster care in Kentucky -- ch. 4. Workforce, organizational, and systemic issues in foster care -- ch. 5. The practice of foster care -- Works cited -- Appendix A-Q.
Author: Kentucky. General Assembly. Legislative Research Commission
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 390
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 150
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Program Review and Investigations Committee report "Kentucky's Community Mental Health Systemis Expanding and Would Benefit From Better Planning and Reporting". That report, adopted in June 2007, covered fiscal years 2001 to 2005. This update covers FY2006 to FY 2010 and provides data for the full 10 years.
Author: Kathy Barbell
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
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Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781412823395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Family foster care is supposed to provide temporary protection and nurturing for children experiencing maltreatment. Although it has long been a critical service for millions of children in the United States, the increased attention given to this service in the last two decades has focused more on its inability to achieve its intended outcomes than on its successes. However, as social and political trends and new legislation reshape child welfare, policymakers and service providers continue to offer innovative policy and practice options for this child welfare service. Though use of the service has changed, family foster care remains important. Responding to a widespread sense of the "drifting" of children in care, Congress passed the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. This legislation became a key factor shaping the current status of family foster care. Its goal was to reduce reliance on out-of-home care and encourage use of preventive and reunification services; it also mandated that agencies engage in planning efforts for permanent solutions for foster children. Yet, despite federal mandates and funding, the child welfare system has continued to struggle to provide the level of services needed for children to reduce the amount of time children remain in temporary foster care. The latest response to these problems, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, established unequivocally that safety, permanency, and well-being were national goals for children in the child welfare system. To comply with the law, public and private agencies are required to initiate significant program and practice changes in the coming years to improve permanency outcomes and child well-being in family foster care. The central theme of the volume is accountability for outcomes, certainly a current driving force in child welfare as well as in other public and private service fields. This volume will be of interest to all concerned with the social welfare of children and families at the end of the twentieth century. Kathy Barbell is director of Foster Care of the Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC. Lois Wright is assistant dean at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Author: Kentucky. General Assembly. Legislative Research Commission
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 184
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) administers Kentuckys foster caresystem, which provides out-of-home care to children who have been removed from homebecause of dependency, neglect, or abuse. More than 11,000 children were in the Kentuckyout-of-home care system at some time during 2016, a 15.4 percent increase since 2012. Thenumber of children in out-of-home care who are available for adoption has increased by morethan 17 percent since 2012. Over the past 5 years, only about 44 percent of the children inout-of-home care who are available for adoption have been adopted annually. Statute provides atime frame in which required court proceedings must occur in both out-of-home care andadoption cases, but neither DCBS nor the Administrative Office of the Courts collects sufficientinformation to determine whether cases are handled in a timely manner. Caseloads for Kentuckychild welfare workers exceed national standards and are a major obstacle to providing effectiveservices. High caseloads are worsened by turnover, which occurs because of uncompetitivesalaries, a high-stress work environment, limited career opportunities, and lack of recognition.The report has nine recommendations related to out-of-home care court proceedings, theaccuracy and reporting of child welfare workers caseloads, and the hiring and retention of childwelfare caseworkers." -- Abstract.
Author: Betsy Krebs
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780813540153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Each year tens of thousands of teenagers are released from the foster care system in the United States without high school degrees, homes, or strong family relationships. Two to four years after discharge, half of these young people still do not have either a high school diploma or equivalency degree, and fewer than ten percent enter college. Nearly a third end up on public assistance within fifteen months, and eventually more than a third will be arrested or convicted of a crime. In this richly detailed and often surprising exploration of the foster care system, Betsy Krebs and Paul Pitcoff argue that the existing foster care system sets teens up to fail by inadequately preparing them for adult life. They contend that the primary goal of foster care for teenagers should be preparation for a fully productive adult life, and that current policies and practice are misguided. The authors draw on their fifteen years of experience working with teens and the foster care system to introduce new ways to empower teens to be responsible for themselves and to identify and develop their potential. They also explore what sorts of resources-legal, financial, and human-will need to come from inside and outside the system to ensure that more teens reach successful independence. Ultimately, Krebs and Pitcoff argue that change must include the participation of caring communities of volunteers who want to see disadvantaged youth succeed, as well as the use of creative approaches such as the Socratic Method to help teens to take control of their lives. Bringing together a series of inspiring, real-life accounts, Beyond the Foster Care System introduces readers to a number of dynamic young people who have participated in the Youth Advocacy Center's programs. Their stories demonstrate that alternatives to the standard way of providing foster care are not only imaginable, but possible. With the practical improvements Krebs and Pitcoff outline, teens can learn the skills of effective self-advocacy, become better prepared for the transition to independence, and avoid becoming the statistics that foster care has so often produced in the past.
