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Peer reviewedKerman, Ben; Barth, Richard P.; Wildfire, Judy – Child Welfare, 2004
This article describes what a private agency expended while addressing the transitional needs of former long-term foster youth and examines the association between expenditures and adult outcomes. Not all young adults accepted supports extended to them. In the sample, 41% of the young adults incurred expenses after age 19. Of those using supports,…
Descriptors: Private Agencies, Young Adults, Foster Care, Expenditures
Download full textPrice, Amy; Barth, Richard P. – 1996
Shared family care has been defined as the planned provision of out-of-home care to parents and their children so that the parents, supported by the host caregiver, cares for the child and works toward independent in-house care; this approach is an alternative to the trauma of separation and lack of continuity inherent to foster care placement.…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Welfare, Community Programs, Family Programs
