Foster Care Stability Placement Resources

Please find the resources discussed in the "Advocating for Placement Stability in Foster Care" presentation at the 20220 Connecting for Children's Justice Conference. 

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8 Advocacy Tips to Support Placement Stability in Foster Care

Admininistration on Children and Families (2010). Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008

Bell & Romano (2017). Permanency and Safety Among Children in Foster Family and Kinship Care_ A Scoping Review - PubMed

Casey Family Programs_Strategies-to-improve-placement-stability-1

Child Welfare Information Gateway (2019). Reasonable efforts to preserve and reunify families and achieve permanency for children.

Children’s Bureau.ACYF.ACF.HHS (2022) Kinship Care

Children's Bureau, Placement Stability CFSR Data Indicator Infosheet (2019)

Clemens, et al (2018). Academic-Growth-Trajectories

ECAP - KU SoSW Research Summary

Edwards, L. (2020) reasonable-efforts-lets-raise-the-bar-NACC

Fisher (2009) Effects of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care for Preschoolers

Font and Kim (2022). Sibling Separation and Placement Instability for Chidlren in Foster Care

Hambrick et al. (2019). Timing of Early-Life Stress and the Development of Brain-Related Capacities

Konijn et al, 2019, Foster Care Placement Instability, A Meta Anlaytic Review

Lamb,Lee, Espinoza, McMorris (2022). The Power of Connectedness

Lee et al (2016). Parenting stress in grandparent placement

Lynch et al (2014) Multidementional Treatment Foster Care and Preschool Aged Children.

Neal (2017). Academic resilience and caring adults

Osborne et al. 2021 Placement stability among children in kinship and non-kinship foster placements across multiple placements

 Sattler et al. 2018, Age-Specific Risk Factors Associated with Placement Disruption in Foster Care

Search Institute (2005). 40 Developmental Assets (ages 3-5)

Search Institute (2005). 40 Developmental Assets (ages 8-12)

Search Institute (2006). 40 Developmental Assets (ages 12-18)

University of Minnesota  (2022). Check and Connect Research Poster.

Vreeland at al, 2022, Predictors of Placement Disruption in Foster Care

White, Scott & Munson (2018). Extracurricular Participation and Education.

Winokur (2014)- Kinship Care for the Safety  Permanency  and Well‐being of Children Removed

YFC Tools For success A Toolkit for Child Welfare Professionals to Achieve Permanency & Stability for Youth in Foster Care PermanencyToolkit