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Family to family: reconstructing foster care in the US
Author(s) -
Mattingly John B.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00062.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , foster care , neighbourhood (mathematics) , welfare , welfare system , economic growth , family preservation , quality (philosophy) , public assistance , social welfare , public relations , business , nursing , medicine , political science , economics , government (linguistics) , mathematical analysis , linguistics , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , law
The public child welfare system in North America is faced with growing deprivation, rising numbers of children who need out‐of‐home placements for increasingly lengthy periods, and a shortage of foster carers. The Family to Family initiative offers public agencies funds and tools to help them strengthen family support services within the communities from which children enter the system, improve the quantity and quality of neighbourhood‐based foster carers and develop the capacity to collect and analyse outcome data.