FOSTER CARE RESOURCES
These are Foster Care Resources.
Please also see: Adoption Resources
ARTICLES/INFORMATION/RESEARCH
(click here for Organizations/Agencies)
Abused Foster Children Win $3.3 Million Settlement
The Associated Press, May 25, 2001
- Chicago Jury Awards $3.3 Million to Abused Foster Children
The National Law Journal, June 14, 2001
Advocates Criticize Medicating Foster Kids
The Miami Herald, April 12, 2001
- Foster Workers Can't OK Kids' Pills
The Miami Herald, May 1, 2001 - Advocates Alarmed By Drugs Used For Kids
The Miami Herald, May 7, 2001 - Report Decried Giving Drugs to Kids
The Miami Herald, May 11, 2001 - 'Cadillac' Plan New Foster Kid Approach
The Miami Herald, June 2, 2001
Attorney General: Child Abuse Reports Are Public Record
Sun-Sentinel, July 25, 2001
Boy May Eventually be Returned to His Family if Certain Conditions Met
The Standard-Examiner, November 27, 2001
Children Who Return Home From Foster Care: A 6-Year Prospective Study of Behavioral Health Outcomes in AdolescenceA report from PEDIATRICS, Volume 108, No. 1; July, 2001.
City Agency's Psych Drugs Imperil Foster Kids
New York Post, April 16, 2001
DCF Aide is Found Drunk, Cops Say
The Miami Herald, July 27, 2002
Developmental Issues for Young Children in Foster Care
Policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, November 2000
Feds: Woman Trafficked Vermont Girls to NYC
ABC News, December 14, 2001
Fla. Caseworker Charged in Abuse Case
The Associated Press, July 13, 2002
Foster Care Fast-Forwarded
Traverse City Record-Eagle, May 2000
Foster Care Independence Act of 1999
Final version of the Bill, as passed by both Houses, as well as links to prior versions, references in the Congressional Record, and Bill Summary.
Foster Kids May Fare Worse After Returning Home
Reuters Health, July 3, 2001
Foster Parent Adoption: What Parents Should Know
Fact sheet from the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse.
Foster Parent Adoption: What Professionals Should Know
Fact sheet from the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse.
Fostering Parenthood at Harvard
Harvard Crimson, December 2, 2002
I.N.S. Both Jailer and Parent to Children Without Nation
The New York Times, June 24, 2001
- Nigerian Girl, 8, Released After Year in INS Custody in Miami
The Associated Press, August 11, 2001 - Move Afoot to Change INS Handling of Children Who Are Illegal Immigrants
The Associated Press, February 15, 2002 - Judge Allows INS to Hold Teen
Sun-Sentinel, March 8, 2002 - Kids in Captivity
The Village Voice, February 27 - March 5, 2002
Identification and Care of HIV-Exposed and HIV-Infected Infants, Children, and Adolescents in Foster Care
Policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, July 2000.
Little Refugees: King County's Foster Care Crisis
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 1999
Lost Children
The Washington Post, September 2001
Lost in the System
Sacramento Bee, June 10, 2001
Permanency Planning: Sword or Shield?
by Andrew Vachss, Adoptalk, Spring 1984
Placement Decisions For Children in Long-term Foster Care: Innovative Practices and Literature Review
Report from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy, February 2001. [PDF]
Psychiatric Care of Children in the Foster Care System
Policy statement from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, September 20, 2001.
Safety Net Sought for Former Foster Kids as They Enter Adult World
Sun-Sentinel, May 24, 2001
Strained System Often Splits Up Siblings in Foster Care
The Associated Press, July 22, 2001
State Agency to Pay $5 Million to 6 Sexually Abused Children
Sun-Sentinel, May 17, 2002
Toddler's Death Ruled Homicide
The Washington Post, January 9, 2000
ORGANIZATIONS/AGENCIES
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Agencies by State
www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cb/publications/fostersp.htm
State-by-state listing of foster care agencies, from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90095-6939
Phone: (310) 794-2583
healthychild.ucla.edu
Connect for Kids
1625 K Street, NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
www.connectforkids.org
State-by-State listing of foster care organizations, foster parenting skills, special issues, resources, links.
Kinship Care
Child Welfare League of America
440 First Street, N.W., 3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20001-2085
Phone: (202) 638-2952
www.cwla.org/programs/kinship/
Leaving Care Working Party
Association of Child Welfare Agencies of Australia
Locked Bag 13, Haymarket
NSW 1240
Phone: (02) 9281 8822
www.acwa.asn.au/LCWP/
Agency set up to assist Australian foster children who are leaving care due to "age-out."
National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center
School of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley
1950 Addison Street, Suite 104
Berkeley, CA 94704-1182
Phone: (510) 643-8390
socrates.berkeley.edu/~aiarc/
Education and legislative information re "boarder babies," infants prenatally exposed to alcohol, drugs, or HIV, then abandoned in hospitals. State-by-state list of programs, statistics, publications.
National Foster Care Association
87 Blackfriars Road
London SE1 8HA
United Kingdom
Phone: 020 7620 6400
www.thefostering.net
U.K. charity working to ensure all children and young people who are fostered receive the highest standards of care.
National Foster Parent Association
7512 Stanich Ave. #6
Gig Harbor, WA 98335
Phone: (253) 853-4000
Toll-free: 1-800-557-5238
www.nfpainc.org
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning
Hunter College School of Social Work
129 E. 79th Street
New York, NY 10021
Phone: (212) 452-7053
guthrie.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/
