Feb 3, 2011
From page 38: “The longer a child has been cared for in a safe, nurturing relationship, the more compelling the reasons would have to be to remove him or her from a postive environment (whoever is the caregiver) to return to another caregiver; to do so would...
Feb 3, 2011
The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts. Part I...
Feb 3, 2011
Since the early 1980s, states child welfare agencies’ use of relatives as foster parents has grown rapidly, yet little information is available on this practice. This lack of information has made it difficult to evaluate how well kinship care ensures...
Feb 3, 2011
Jill Duerr Berrick, a professor at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, is a well-respected researcher in child welfare and a long-time advocate of kinship care. A colleague familiar with her work brought to her attention the DHS PowerPoint presentation designed to...
Feb 3, 2011
“David Miller — and, really, everyone in the field of resilience — emphasizes the importance of someone else’s presence. Parents, first and best of all, who believe in you, and, if that fails, neighbors, friends, teachers. The foremost element...
Feb 3, 2011
This Honolulu Advertiser article interviewed famed researcher Emmy Werner . The article states, in part, “Emmy Werner may not be a household name, but the discoveries she has made over 40 years of studying 698 children born on Kaua’i in 1955 have created a...
