Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act: Improving Lives and Opportunities for Children in Foster Care
This document explains how the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act benefits young people in care.
Quality of care
Child Protective Services Reintegration Project: Permanency Outcomes for Youth with Complex Mental Health Needs
The CPS Reintegration Project provides an extensive network of services to caregivers of youth in foster care who have at least one DSM-IV diagnosis.
Mental Health, Ethnicity, Sexuality and Spirituality Among Youth in Foster Care
Interviewers surveyed 188 adolescents in care, including questions on mental health, spirituality, ethnic identity, gender identity and sexual orientation.
Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study
This report examines how more than 600 youth formerly in care have fared as adults and what changes in foster care services could improve their lives.