What Works in Foster Care?: Key Components of Success From the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
Peter J. Pecora, Ronald C. Kessler, Jason Williams, A. Chris Downs, Diana J. English, James White, and Kirk O'Brien
Abstract
This book reports the findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study, which examined outcomes for adults who were placed in family foster care as children. The primary research questions were as follows: (1) How are maltreated youth who were placed in foster care faring as adults? To what extent are they different in their functioning from other adults? (2) Are there key factors or program components that are linked with better functioning in adulthood? The book also contains the agency comparisons and the predictive equations that link certain demographic foster care experiences and int ... More
This book reports the findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study, which examined outcomes for adults who were placed in family foster care as children. The primary research questions were as follows: (1) How are maltreated youth who were placed in foster care faring as adults? To what extent are they different in their functioning from other adults? (2) Are there key factors or program components that are linked with better functioning in adulthood? The book also contains the agency comparisons and the predictive equations that link certain demographic foster care experiences and interventions with more positive alumni outcomes.
Keywords:
child welfare,
foster care,
foster care alumni,
Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study,
mental health,
foster care practice,
foster care outcomes,
education in foster care,
employment in foster care,
family foster care
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2009 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195175912 |
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195175912.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Peter J. Pecora, author
University of Washington
Ronald C. Kessler, author
Harvard Medical School
Jason Williams, author
University of Alaska
A. Chris Downs, author
The Downs Company, Seattle
Diana J. English, author
Strategic Consulting, Casey Family Programs
James White, author
Child Welfare Partnership, Portland State University
Kirk O'Brien, author
Casey Family Programs
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