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Initial findings on cross‐system utilization of citizen foster care review board recommendations
Author(s) -
Cahoon Byrnes Edward
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.503
Subject(s) - foster care , welfare system , welfare , plan (archaeology) , child care , juvenile court , public relations , psychology , political science , public administration , nursing , medicine , juvenile delinquency , law , criminology , archaeology , history
During 1998 an estimated 560,000 children were in foster care across the United States. With increasing numbers of children in foster care policy‐makers are concerned with permanency planning. In an effort to promote permanency planning the US Congress enacted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 which mandated that individual states (a) develop a case plan within 30 days of a child being placed in foster care, (b) incorporate a system of review into their foster care programs, and (c) review foster care cases at least every six months. Despite the level of policy activity centering on foster care review there has been a paucity of rigorous research. This study asks ‘How well utilized are foster care review recommendations by child welfare case managers and Juvenile Court judges?’ Results are framed in Systems Theory, specifically Complexity Theory. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.