Potential confounders included: sexual identity, parent attended residential school, ever been in foster care, city, relationship status, education level, and childhood maltreatment.
The Every Child Deserves a Family Act, H. R. 1681, introduced by one of us (Representative Pete Stark), would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and marital status in the foster care and adoption systems.
A 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design was used to examine the potential influence of race (African American vs. Caucasian), socioeconomic status of the foster care environment (Low vs. High), and System of Care SOCC) services (System of Care/Wraparound Services vs. Treatment as Usual) on social workers' placement decisions within the child welfare system.
Recruitment criteria for adolescents included: aged 14 21 years, with an available legal guardian (if under 18 years) or adult surrogate at least 21 years old who knew the adolescent's HIV status, not in foster care, no developmental delays, severe depression, suicidal or homicidal ideation, dementia or psychosis.
The bride, 29, is a social worker at the Children's Aid Society in New York; she organizes and leads conferences held on the status of every child in foster care under the auspices of the organization.
This article describes a GIS prototype designed to assist with the identification and evaluation of housing that is affordable, safe, and effective in supporting the educational goals and parental status of youth transitioning from foster care following emancipation.
Many children at issue, in fact, are growing up in foster care as New Yorkers, facing deportation if their petitions for special status are not granted before they turn 21.
ECDF is a federal child welfare bill that will eliminate discrimination in foster care and adoption placements based on gender identity, sexual orientation, or marital status.
He placed the child in foster care for nine more months, but ordered the city to provide the mother, despite her immigration status, with a full range of public aid to help reunite them.
The Justice Department ultimately determines if unaccompanied minors are allowed to stay, ruling on whether they qualify for special immigrant juvenile status because they have been abused, neglected or abandoned and need long-term foster care.
