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Intro -- WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CAREHEALTH CARE NEEDS AND SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS -- WELFARE OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CAREHEALTH CARE NEEDS AND SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 CHILD WELFARE: HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE AND RELATED FEDERAL ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- MAJOR FINDINGS -- CHILDREN IN, OR FORMERLY IN, FOSTER CARE -- Health Care Needs -- CHILD WELFARE PROGRAMS: OVERVIEW -- Child Welfare Policy: Health Needs of Children in, or Leaving, Foster Care -- Health Care Records -- Health Care Oversight and Coordination Planning -- Health Care Power of Attorney -- MEDICAID PROGRAM: OVERVIEW OF BENEFITS AND ELIGIBILITY -- Benefits -- Eligibility -- MEDICAID BENEFITS FOR CHILDREN IN, OR FORMERLY IN, FOSTER CARE -- MEDICAID ELIGIBILITY FOR CHILDRENAND FAMILIES WITH CURRENT OR PAST CHILD WELFARE INVOLVEMENT -- Children in Foster Care -- Mandatory Pathways -- Optional Pathways -- Medicaid Eligibility in Practice -- Young Adults Who Were Formerly in Foster Care -- Mandatory Pathways -- Mandatory Pathway Effective in 2014 -- Optional Pathway -- Medicaid Eligibility in Practice -- Children Who Leave Foster Care for Adoption or Guardianship -- Mandatory Pathway -- Adoption Assistance -- Kinship Guardianship Assistance -- Optional Pathways -- Interstate Application -- Possible Coverage for Child Welfare-Involved Families -- Children and Families Served in the Home -- Families of Children Entering Foster Care -- PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE REFORMS AFFECTING THE CHILD WELFARE POPULATION -- Selected Private Health Insurance Reforms under ACA -- "Immediate" Health Insurance Reforms and Programs -- Health Insurance Reforms and Programs Effective in 2014 -- ISSUES AND CHALLENGES -- Cross-Agency Collaboration -- Communicating Across Programs

The Swedish child welfare system has no permanency planning as we know it from, for example, the United States and Great Britain. Regardless of whether the child is placed in foster care with or without the parents' consent, the law requires semi‐annual reviews and there is no time limit set on reunion. Nevertheless, there are foster children who remain in the foster home throughout the whole of childhood, on terms similar to permanent foster care or adoption. This paper concerns a selection of findings from a research project entitled 'Is there a difference in being a foster child?'. Foster children aged 10–11 were interviewed three times and the children's perspective was focused on, complemented by the perspective of their foster parent(s). When interviewed about their relationship to their natural family as well as to the foster family, and about having a sense of family belonging and expectations for the future, 11 of the 22 children perceived their stay in the foster home as permanent and regarded themselves as belonging only to the foster family, although all of the children had contact with their birth parents. The study concerns the children's views as well as those of the foster parents. The perception of permanency in the absence of a legal option of permanency is discussed.

AbstractThis study examined a path model that postulated intergenerational relationships between biological parent psychosocial functioning and foster care alumni mental health, economic status and social support; and from these to the likelihood of children of foster care alumni being placed in foster care. The sample included 742 adults who spent time in foster care as children with a private foster care agency and who reported having at least one biological child. A full pathway was found between poorer father's functioning to greater alumni depression, which was in turn associated with negative social support, and then a greater likelihood of child out‐of‐home placement. Other parent to alumni paths were that poorer father functioning was associated with alumni anxiety and post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and poorer mother's mental health was associated with PTSD; however, anxiety and PTSD were not implicated as precursors of foster care placement of the child. Findings support the need for increased practice and policy support to address the mental health needs of parents of children in or at risk of foster care, as well as the children themselves, as family history may have a lasting influence on quality of life, even when children are raised apart from biological parents.

In Italy, family fostering is in most cases a voluntary service where foster parents are non-professional helpers. About half of the foster parents are couples with children of their own, which makes fostering a "family enterprise." Within growing attention to children's voices in research, the paper focuses on children living foster care (as children in care and as foster parents' children) and the ways they engage in constructing their family landscape. So far, the point of view of the two groups has been considered separately. Although their life trajectories are highly specific, a cross-cutting perspective on family involving the two groups of children can offer new insights on their experiences of family construction and belonging. Starting from a conceptual framework that sees kinship and family as emerging from practices where family actors—including children—are actively engaged, the article presents the main results of interview research involving 69 children and youth who currently live in foster families in Italy, as children in care and as biological children of the foster parents. The results highlight the intense work children do in constructing and naming family ties, in displaying their family in social contexts, and in learning about themselves, the family, and their multiple belongings throughout foster care.

Intro -- CHILDREN AND YOUTH TRANSITIONS FROM FOSTER CARE -- CHILDREN AND YOUTH TRANSITIONS FROM FOSTER CARE -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 YOUTH TRANSITIONING FROM FOSTER CARE: BACKGROUND AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS -- SUMMARY -- WHO ARE OLDER YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE AND YOUTH AGING OUT OF CARE? -- Characteristics of Youth Who Have Had Contact with the Child Welfare System -- Characteristics of Youth in Foster Care -- Outcomes for Young Adults Formerly in Foster Care -- Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study -- Midwest Evaluation on the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth -- Emancipated Youth Compared to Youth in Care at Midwest Evaluation Wave 3 -- Youth at Midwest Evaluation Wave 4 Compared to Youth Ages 23 and 24 Generally -- Resiliency of Current and Former Foster Youth -- OVERVIEW OF FEDERAL CHILD WELFARE SUPPORT FOR FOSTER YOUTH -- FEDERAL FOSTER CARE -- Case Planning and Review -- Title IV-E Reimbursement for Foster Care -- Eligibility -- Eligible Placement Setting -- CHAFEE FOSTER CARE INDEPENDENCE PROGRAM -- Overview -- Legislative History -- Eligibility for CFCIP Benefits and Services -- Youth Likely to Remain in Foster Care Until Age 18 -- Permanency Planning -- Youth Aging Out of Foster Care -- American Indian Youth -- National Child Welfare Resource Center for Youth Development Survey of Tribal Consultation and Independent Living Services -- The Role of Youth Participants -- Program Administration -- Education and Training Vouchers -- Program Administration -- Youth Enrolled in the Program -- Funding for States -- Use of Funds -- CFCIP STATE PLAN REQUIREMENTS -- Hold Harmless Provision -- Unused Funds -- Training and Technical Assistance -- National Youth in Transition Database -- History -- Data Collection -- Training and Technical Assistance75 -- Evaluation of Innovative CFCIPs -- PART Review -- Assessments of the CFCIP

This is a study of the referral completion status of a cohort of children entering foster care, and the ability of selected factors to explain the completion of those referrals. It was found that although the children had multiple health problems their needs continued to go unmet. Two variables that accounted for 9% of the variance in referral completion were identified. The implications of these findings are discussed and issues for additional investigations are suggested.

This paper reviews the findings of the South Australian longitudinal study and the extent to which findings are borne out in subsequent national and international research. Included in this paper is an analysis of several issues in out-of-home care, including the disparity between child and carer numbers, the nature and effects of placement instability, the complexity of child behaviour and family contact. Using some recent findings of the ongoing National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being (NSCAW) study in the United States, the paper shows how many of the South Australian findings have been also borne out in other studies with larger sample sizes and more sophisticated measures. These comparisons suggest that the out-of-home care experiences of children living in both countries may share many similarities. Findings obtained in either country may be more easily translated to inform policy and practice internationally than has been previously thought.