Children in care lag behind their peers on a number of outcome measures, including
education. Interventions have been developed to help them close the gap with their peers …

Objective: Children in out-of-home placements typically display more educational,
behavioral, and psychological problems than do their peers. This systematic review …

Although a broad range of programmes for prevention of child maltreatment exist, the
effectiveness of most of the programmes is unknown. Two specific home-visiting …

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines
major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its …

This literature review examined the status of the published research on the academic and
school functioning behaviors of students in out-of-home care. Twenty-nine studies were …

Background Every year a large number of children around the world are removed from their
homes because they are maltreated. Child welfare agencies are responsible for placing …

Over the last decade or longer, the number of children in kinship care has increased
dramatically. There is evidence that kinship foster families have fewer resources and receive …

We describe the level of behavior problems, academic skill delays, and school failure
among school-aged children in foster care. We also examine how behavior problems are …

In this chapter, we discuss young children in foster care, as well as those adopted both
nationally and internationally. Although children in these groups experience different …

Objective. Although prior population-based studies have found that children in foster care
use more mental health services than their Medicaid peers, less is known about how …