ArticleSocial policy report2020
Foster Care: How We Can, and Should, Do More for Maltreated Children.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Systematic Review of the Evaluation of Foster Care Programs.Psychosocial intervention · 2024Pooled it
- Associations between childhood maltreatment and mid-life health risks and risky health behaviors in a nationally representative sample.SSM. Mental health · 2026Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Parenting Stress in Foster Families: Mentalizing as a Pathway to Strain.Journal of child and family studies · 2026Article
- Foster Care and Child Maltreatment Mortality Rates in the US.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Foster Youth's Resilience and Wellbeing During Placement Changes.Child care in practice : Northern Ireland journal of multi-disciplinary child care practice · 2025Article
- Discordant patterns and adulthood consequences of childhood maltreatment and foster care placement.Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 2025Article
- Left behind? Educational disadvantage, child protection, and foster care.Child abuse & neglect · 2024Article
- Cross-informant agreement between caregivers and teachers for prosocial behavior across child welfare settings.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
- Prevalence and correlates of post-traumatic stress disorder and depression among welfare- and justice-involved adolescents in Nigeria.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Foster Care, Kinship Care, and the Transition to Adulthood: Do Child Welfare System Processes Explain Differences in Outcomes?Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- A Meta-Regression of Racial Disparities in Wellbeing Outcomes During and After Foster Care.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2023Review
- Father-Mother Co-Involvement in Child Maltreatment: Associations of Prior Perpetration, Parental Substance Use, Parental Medical Conditions, Inadequate Housing, and Intimate Partner Violence with Different Maltreatment Types.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Qualitative studies of the lived experiences of being in foster care: A scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- A Balancing Act: How Professionals in the Foster Care System Balance the Harm of Intimate Partner Violence as Compared to the Harm of Child Removal.International journal on child maltreatment : research, policy and practice · 2023Article
- Child Welfare Reform: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Child Protection Intervention and the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Female Adolescents Ages 13 to 17 Years.JAMA pediatrics · 2022Article
- The Centrality of Child Maltreatment to Criminology.Annual review of criminology · 2022Article
- Foster children's perspectives on participation in child welfare processes: A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies.PloS one · 2022Article
- Child Maltreatment and the Child Welfare System as Environmental Factors in the International Classification of Functioning.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2021Review
- Foster Care Entry and Later Academic Achievement Among Infants Involved With Child Protective Services.Child developmentArticle
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Abstract
Foster care provides round-the-clock substitute care for nearly 700,000 U.S. children who are temporarily or permanently separated from their family of origin each year. Each state manages its own foster care system according to federal regulations. Despite numerous large-scale federal policy reforms over the past several decades, substantial concerns remain about the experiences and outcomes of children in the foster care system. The most recent effort to reform foster care, the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018, attempts to both reduce the use of foster care and increase the quality of care. In this report, we review how policy has shaped the experiences and outcomes of children in foster care, where policy has succeeded, and where it falls short of achieving its goals. We then identify opportunities for federal and state policy to better support the safety, health, and well-being of children in foster care.
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