TOPIC: Foster Care

The following represents a sample of information to get you started and is not meant to be exhaustive.
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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Training

• Student & Family Assistance Programs & Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Introductory Packet

• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools

Technical Aid

• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

General
• Educating Children in Foster Care (from NCSL)
• Connected by 25: A plan for investing in successful futures for foster youth (from Foster Care Work Group)
• The Effects of Foster Care Placement on Young Children’s Mental Health (from University of Iowa)
• Foster Care: No Cure for Mental Illness (from Connect for Kids)
• Children, Families, and Foster Care (from The Future of Children)
• Improving educational outcomes for youth in foster care: An update (from VOICE Casey Family Services)
• It's my life: Summary of a framework for youth transitioning from foster care to successful adulthood (from Casey Family Programs)
• Maintaining Health Benefits for Children Transitioning from Foster Care (from APA Online)
• The Assessment Checklist for Children-ACC: A behavioral rating scale for children in foster,kinship, and residential care

Policy & Practice

• Best Practices Guidelines for Foster Care Youth Mentoring(NYC ACS)
• Educational Stability for Youth in Foster Care (from Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic)
• Foster Care Mental Health Collaborative (from AACAP/CWLA)
• Foster Care Mental Health Values Subcommittee-Policy Statement (from AACAP/CWLA)
• Involving Foster Parents in Permanency Planning for Adolescents in Treatment Foster Care: Evidence-Based Practices, 2009
• Legal Center for Foster Care and Education
• Mental Health Needs and Services for Youth in the Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Systems: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Resources (from California State Library Foundation)
• Policy Statement on Mental Health and Substance Use Screening and Assessment of Children in Foster Care (from AACAP/CWLA)
• Promoting educational success for young people in foster care national foster youth advisory counsil (from NFYAC)
• A Road Map for Learning: Improving Educational Outcomes in Foster Care

Foster Care System Services & Programs

• Emancipated Youth Connections Report: Final Report/Toolkit
• Foster Care and School Mental Health
• Foster youth mentorship training for programmanagers (from EMT)
• Mental Health Care for Foster Children and Youth (from CHSW)
• Foster Care and School Mobility
• Mental Health and Behavioral Problems of Youth in the Child Welfare System: Residential Treatment Centers Compared to Therapeutic Foster Care in the Odyssey Project Population
• Mental health needs of youth infoster care: Challenges and strategies (from CASA)
• Mental health services for children in foster care (from Children Today)
• Mental Health Services for Youths in Foster Care and Disabled Youths (from AJPH)
• Mentoring children in foster care (National and Community Service)
• Psychiatric Care of Children in the Foster Care System (from AACAP)
• School Support for Foster Families (From ERIC)
• Therapeutic Foster Care

• American Foster Care Resources, Inc (AFCR)
• ARCH National Respite Network and Resources Center
• Casey Family Programs
• Education Coordinating Council (ECC)
• Evidence-based programs to prevent children from entering and remaining in the child welfare system (2008) Washington State Institute for Public Policy
• Foster and Adoptive Parent Resource (USC)
• Foster Care - Family Care for Children & Youth, Inc.
• Foster Family-Based Treatment Association (FFTA)
• Foster Results
• Kinship care offers better outcomes for children than foster care (2008)
• National Foster Parent Association (NFPA)

• Advocating to resolve educational problems of children in foster care. Zetlin, A.G., Weinberg, L., & Tunick, R. (2002). American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) Advisor, 14, 11-14.
• Are the educational needs of children in foster care being addressed? Zetlin, A.G., Weinberg, L., & Kimm, C. (2003). Children and Schools, 25, 105-119.
• Education of foster group home children: Whose responsibility is it? Study of the educational placement of chldren residing in group homes. Parrish, T., Dubois, J., Delano, C., Dixon, D., Webster, D., Berrick, J.D., et al. (2001). Palo Alto, CA: American Institutes for Research.
• Improving Education Outcomes for Children in Foster Care: Intervention by and Education Liaison. Zetlin, A., Weinberg, L., & Kimm, C. (2004). Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 9(4), 421-429.
• Improving educational propects for foster youth. Weinberg, L.A., Zetlin, A.G., & Shea, N.M. (2003). Los Angeles: Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc.
• Problems and solutions to improving education services for children in foster care. Zetlin, A., Weinberg, L., & Luderer, J. (2004). Preventing School Failure, 45(1), 1-7.

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