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Innovative Approaches to Improving Outcomes for Children Involved with Child Welfare: Youth Mentoring

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recommendations! Published in 2019 at "Child Maltreatment"

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05858-6_19

Abstract: Research on the impact of mentoring for youth in foster care is emerging. Mentoring appears to be highly acceptable to youth in foster care, and mentors are reported to provide life-changing informational, instrumental, and emotional… read more here.

Keywords: health; child; care; foster care ... See more keywords
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Stakeholder perceptions of barriers and facilitators to sexual health discussions between foster and kinship caregivers and youth in foster care: A qualitative study

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Children and Youth Services Review"

DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.03.020

Abstract: Abstract Purpose Youth in foster care are more likely to contract a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and become pregnant than other youth, who have not been in foster care. This study explored stakeholder perceptions of… read more here.

Keywords: sexual health; health; foster care; youth foster ... See more keywords
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A longitudinal analysis of school discipline events among youth in foster care.

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recommendations! Published in 2018 at "Children and youth services review"

DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.07.017

Abstract: Youth in foster care experience major deficits on standardized measures of academic functioning, are at high risk of academic failure, and are more likely than their non-foster peers to be disciplined at school. School discipline-related… read more here.

Keywords: school discipline; discipline; school; foster care ... See more keywords
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A National Examination of Informed Consent Processes for Psychotropic Medication Use among Youth In Foster Care: A Typology of Approaches to Informed Consent and Implications for Policy and Practice

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recommendations! Published in 2019 at "Pediatrics"

DOI: 10.1542/peds.144.2_meetingabstract.73

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Medicaid-insured youth in foster care hold rates of psychotropic medication prescribing more than four-fold that of the Medicaid-insured children not in foster care. Given the charge of child welfare agencies to serve in loco… read more here.

Keywords: foster care; psychotropic medication; youth foster; informed consent ... See more keywords