TOPIC: Foster Care

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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
• The Assessment Checklist for Children: A Behavioral Rating Scale for Children in Foster, Kinship and Residential Care
• Child welfare: More information and collaboration could promote ties between foster care children and their incarcerated parents
• Children, Families, and Foster Care
• Connected by 25: A Plan for Investing in Succesful Futures for Foster Youth
• Educating Children in Foster Care
• The Effects of Foster Care Placement on Young Children’s Mental Health
• Evidence-Based Programs to Prevent Children From Entering and Remaining in the Child Welfare System: Interim Report
• Foster Care: No Cure for Mental Illness
• Impact of Kinship Care on Behavorial Well-Being for Children in Out-Of-Home Care
• The Transition to Adulthood: How States Can Support Older Youth in Foster Care

Policy & Practice
• Best Practices Guidelines for Foster Care Youth Mentoring
• Educational Stability for Youth in Foster Care
• Foster Care Mental Health Collaborative
• Foster Care Mental Health Values Subcommittee
• Involving Foster Parents in Permanency Planning for Adolescents in Treatment Foster Care: Evidence-Based Practices
• 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
• Policy Statement on Mental Health and Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs, Screening and Assessment of Children in Foster Care
• Promoting Educational Success for Young People in Foster Care
• A Road Map for Learning: Improving Educational Outcomes in Foster Care
• Support Youth Transitioning From Foster Care

Foster Care System Services & Programs
• Foster Care and School Mental Health
• Foster Care and School Mobility
• Foster Youth Mentorship Training for Program Managers
• 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 Care for Foster Children and Youth
• Mental Health Services for Youths in Foster Care and Disabled Youths
• Mentoring Children in Foster Care
• Psychiatric Care of Children in the Foster Care System
• School Support for Foster Families

• American Foster Care Resources, Inc
• ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center
• Casey Family Programs
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Children's Bureau Express
• Education Coordinating Council
• Family Care for Children & Youth, Inc.
• Foster Family-Based Treatment Association
• Foster Results
• The National Voice of Foster Parents

• 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.
• Child-Centred Foster Care: A Rights-based Model for Practice. Annabel Goodyear. (2011). Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
• 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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