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Direct linkDworsky, A.; Gitlow, E.; Horwitz, B.; Samuels, G. M. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2019
This Research-to-Impact brief is the seventh in a series by Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count on understanding and addressing youth homelessness. Each year, nearly 4.2 million adolescents and young adults in America experience some form of homelessness. This brief focuses on the subset of young people who experience homelessness after spending…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Foster Care, Youth, Adolescents
Download full textUS Department of Health and Human Services, 2008
"Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005: Report to Congress" (Child Welfare Outcomes Report) is the seventh in a series of annual reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the Department). The reports are developed in accordance with section 479A of the Social Security Act (as amended by the Adoption and Safe Families Act…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Annual Reports, Child Abuse, Incidence
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House. – 1980
The provisions of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-272 of the 96th Congress) are delineated in this legislative bulletin. The primary purposes of the Act are (1) to establish a program of adoption assistance; (2) to strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and (3) to…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Day Care, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1980
The first part of this report of the U.S. House of Representatives presents the text of the "Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980." The Act consists of three parts: Title I: Foster Care and Adoption Assistance; Title II: Social Services; and Title III: Other Social Security Act Provisions. Objectives of the Act are to (1)…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Disadvantaged, Federal Aid
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Finance. – 1985
Legislation has been proposed by the Administration to revise the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) foster care program. This committee print provides background information on the AFDC foster care program under Title IV-A (from 1962-1980); discusses the changes made in the program since the passage of the Adoption Assistance and…
Descriptors: Adoption, Background, Child Welfare, Federal Aid
