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Download full textClemens, Elysia V.; Sheesley, Alison P. – Online Submission, 2019
Fostering Opportunities is an innovative student engagement program for middle school and high school students who have experienced foster care. The goal of the program is to help youth who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential. Fostering Opportunities was developed because of the clear…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Foster Care, Graduation Rate
Thielman, Betse – 2001
This guide helps child welfare agencies and their partners craft more family-focused and neighborhood-based service systems. It suggests a framework that agencies can use to assess their current policies and practices and develop plans to integrate Family to Family values, principles, and strategies into existing initiatives and activities. Family…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Foster Care
Sipp, Patricia B., Ed. – 1983
This manual, which provides guidelines for effective adoption services for children in residential group child care who need new, permanent families, emphasizes interagency collaboration and communication as critical to effective adoptive plans. The manual is intended for public agency social workers responsible for placement and permanency…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Welfare
Bryant, Brad; Snodgrass, Robert – 1991
This document provides a guide to quality treatment foster care programming for children with special emotional, behavioral, medical or developmental needs. Treatment foster care meets the needs of such children and their families through implementation of home-treatment plans by foster parents who are trained, supervised, and supported by social…
Descriptors: Agencies, Children, Disabilities, Foster Care
Vandiviere, Patricia; And Others – 1985
The report presents evaluation data on the Cross-Program Training Project to train foster parents, teachers, and social workers who are jointly responsible for the care of special needs children, especially preschoolers. The project featured five major components: (1) site development, (2) training needs assessment on which to develop programing,…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Foster Care
Workforce Strategy Center, Brooklyn, NY. – 2000
Focus of this guide is a project to identify best practices and programs in preparing foster care youth for career opportunities and economic self-sufficiency. Foster care program context is described as an economy characterized by jobs clustering into two categories (high wage positions with a continuing career pathway and low wage entry-level…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Education, Career Counseling, Career Development
