Removing Barriers to Service Delivery: An Outcome Evaluation of a ‘Remodelled’ Foster Care Programme1

Adoption and Fostering

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 20-30

  Unrau, Yvonne A ^a   Wells, Michael A ^b   Hartnett, Mary Ann ^c  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Peoria ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

foster care; outcome evaluation; permanency outcomes; stability outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248605791     PISSN: 03085759     EISSN: 1740469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030857590402800204     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. S.BadeauS.Gesiriech, A Child's Journey through the Child Welfare System, The Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, 2003; available online at http://pewfostercare.org/docs/index.php?DocID=24. Retrieved 2 January 2004.
2. Children and Family Research Centre, Outcomes Report 1999, School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Children and Family Research Centre, 1999.
3. I.DavisJ.LandsverkR.Newton, ‘Duration of foster care for children reunified within the first year of care’, in (eds), Child Welfare Research Review (Vol. 2), New York: Columbia Press, 1997.
4. R.Goerge, ‘The reunification process in substitute care’, Social Service Review64, pp 422–57, 1990.
5. J.HudsonB.NutterB.Galaway, ‘A survey of North American specialist foster family care programmes’, Social Service Review66: 1, pp 50–64, 1992.
6. C.LewandowskiL.Pierce, ‘Assessing the effect of family-centered out-of-home care on reunification outcomes’, Research on Social Work Practice12: 2, pp 205–21, 2002.
7. D.MoxleyR.Manela, ‘Expanding the conceptual basis of outcomes and their use in the human services’, Families in Society82, pp 569–77, 2001.
8. P.PecoraA.Maluccio, ‘What works in family foster care’, in (eds), What Works in Child Welfare, Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America, 2000.
9. Y.UnrauM.A.Hartnett, Catholic Social Service Foster Care Reform Initiative: The Promise Programme, final report, Urbana, IL: Children and Family Research Centre at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June 2001.
10. K.WehrmannY.UnrauJ.Martin, ‘Family foster care in the United States’, in (eds), Global Perspectives on Foster Care: A comparative international analysis of foster family care systems, Lyme Regis: Russell House Publishing, in press.
11. Westat, Chapin Hall Centre for Children and James Bell Associates, Evaluation of the New York City Home Rebuilders Demonstration, Submitted to DHHS, ASPE, contract No HHS-100-94-0020, 1998.
12. Westat, Evaluation of the Illinois Subsidised Guardianship Waiver Demonstration: Preliminary findings, Rockville, MD: Westat, 1999.
13. F.Wulczyn, ‘Closing the gap: are changing exit patterns reducing the time African-American children spend in foster care relative to Caucasian children?’, Unpublished manuscript, Chicago, IL: Chapin Hall Centre for Children at the University of Chicago, 2002.
14. F.WulczynD.ZeidmanA.Svirsky, ‘Home rebuilders: A family reunification demonstration programme’, in (eds), Child Welfare Research Review, New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.