Discusses the Oregon Foster Care Project, a 3-year demonstration project of the Freeing Children for Permanent Placement project funded by the Office of Child Development. Types of cases that present problems to permanent placement are presented. (SB)

Describes a program to achieve permanent foster care placement for children. Program aspects include screening, placement, and removing barriers which prevent family restoration. After two years of operation, a 70 percent success rate is claimed for permanent placements, at an annual savings of approximately $100,000. (Author/DB)

Describes the recruitment, screening, training, support, and outcome components of a program of the Salvation Army Hope Center in St. Louis, Missouri, that provided foster care to children discharged from its residential treatment program. (RH)

Illustrates various ways of using a scale to indicate the percentage of a child's life spent in foster care. Uses in projecting caseloads and costs, comparing normal and special-needs foster care populations, and assessing the impact of parent involvement on length of time in foster care are described. (RH)

One hundred 8- to 18-year-old children (50 in foster family homes and 50 in group homes) participated in study designed to obtain information about their perceptions of quality of care they receive, why they think they are in foster care, what they expect future holds for them, and how they think system could be improved for other children.…

Reviews current issues in adoption: termination of parental rights, rights of unwed fathers, subsidized adoption, the recent influx of Vietnamese children, black market babies, agency accountability in placing children, the right of the adoptee to know his biological parents. (ED)

Describes Kaleidoscope's Youth Development Program in Illinois, which offers a variety of services to help youths who are "aging out" of foster care programs to learn to live on their own in the community. (Author/BB)

Findings from a study of more than 200 families with adopted children yield valuable insights into the reasons why adoptive relationships collapse and what factors agencies should consider in matching children and families to avoid disruption. (Author/BB)

Describes the Professional Association of Treatment Homes (PATH) program and discusses the advantages of a placement contracting process to adults and children involved in foster care. (SB)

This article describes a training program to assist caseworkers, prevent instability in foster care placements and achieve permanency in such placements. Evaluation results and program suggestions are provided and an indication is given of how the training materials may be obtained. (DB)

As this article emphasizes, permanency planning begins before placement through the adequate provision of assistance and services to families in order to avoid any need to remove children from their homes. Such family-focused prevention programs show promise in meeting needs of child welfare families benefiting children and states. (Author/BB)

Examines the changes initiated to reorient Kentucky's child welfare system to a family prevention model; this includes an examination of the model's goals, the implementation of the model, training of the staff, problems encountered by the initiation of the new model, and an evaluation of the model. (Author/BB)

Presents an overview of an evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of family-centered home-based services as implemented within the Child Welfare Division of Hennepin County, Minnesota Community Services Department, which worked with families of an adolescent who had been approved for out-of-home placement. (BB)

Examines the mission of a Massachusetts state program responsible for coordinating the placement of children with AIDS in an adoption or foster child program when appropriate. Investigates issues relative to direct care, day care, school attendance and confidentiality in cases with children of AIDS. (RWB)

Describes a family-based program in Philadelphia, the Supportive Child Adult Network (SCAN), which offers a wide range of treatment approaches to strengthen high risk families. (Author/BB)