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Mental Health Issues and Services in Out-of-Home Care
Resources and information about assessing and treating mental health issues of children in out-of-home care, including State and local examples.
Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit
National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2008)
Teach basic knowledge, skills, and values about working with children who have experienced traumatic stress, including how to use this knowledge to support children and their families through case management and tailored interventions.
Children Placed in Long-Term Foster Care: An Intake Profile Using the Child Behavior Checklist
Armsden, Pecora, Payne, & Szatkiewicz
Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 8(1), 2000
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Findings on intake CBCL scores for a group of children 4 to 18 years old served in long-term family foster care by the Casey Family Program.
Consent and Participation: Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Children in Out-of-Home Care
Molin & Palmer
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 75(1), 2005
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Addresses concerns surrounding informed consent, the right to be informed, and the rights of parents or foster carers to participate in a child's treatment.
Endangered Youth: A Report on Suicide Among Adolescents Involved With the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems (PDF - 2312 KB)
Connecticut Center for Effective Practice (2006)
Familiarizes professionals representing a broad range of agencies with an interdisciplinary framework that adequately addresses the spectrum of risk factors for suicide that children, youth, and their families involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems experience.
Estimates of Supplemental Security Income Eligibility for Children in Out-of-Home Placements
Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families (2008)
Examines Supplemental Security Income (SSI) eligibility among children living in out-of-home care in the child welfare system, using data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. Indicates that a large number of children living in foster care may be eligible for SSI. (PDF - 520 KB)
Foster Care and the Special Needs of Minority Children
Urquiza, Wu, & Borrego (1999)
In The Foster Care Crisis: Translating Research Into Policy and Practice
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Provides an overview of some common mental health problems noted in foster care and describes institutional biases affecting ethnic minority children in out-of-home care.
Mental Health and Developmental Training Requirements in the CWS (PDF - 100 KB)
Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (2004)
Study found a gap between training programs about the mental health and developmental needs of children and responses to problems such as medication and behavior management.
Mental Health Issues for Children and Youth in Foster Care (PDF - 263 KB)
National Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Association (2006)
Highlights the importance of identifying mental health issues facing the children, teens, and parents who are involved in the dependency system to ensure that appropriate services are available to the family.
Service Utilization by Young Children in Out-of-Home Placement (PDF - 345 KB)
Kempe Children's Center (1998)
Compared mental health and developmental service use by young children under the age of 6 in foster and kinship care.
Unlocking Mental Health Services for Youth in Care
Austin
Children's Voice, 14(3), 2005
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Describes common mental health problems among foster children and reviews several program models designed to facilitate treatment, including A Home Within, therapeutic foster homes, and systems of care that promote cooperation among community-based services.
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State and local examples
Behavior Problems and Educational Disruptions Among Children in Out-of-Home Care in Chicago
Chapin Hall Center for Children (2005)
Compares demographics, placements, and educational experiences of students in foster care who are classified with an emotional disturbance (ED) to students in care who have other special education classifications and Chicago Public School students with ED who are not in care.
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