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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Foster home"”.
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A Comparative Study on Rumah Kanak-Kanak (Children Residential Home) and Rumah Tunas Harapan (Foster Home) in Malaysia: A Child-Centric Perspective
… children who stay at state-run children?s homes and foster homes. Twenty-five foster children and 27 children in children?s homes, aged 10 to 15, were purposively selected for interview and compared on their experiences and views. Based on the children?s narratives, 14 themes were generated …
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NEFORMALUSIS MENINIS UGDYMAS VAIKŲ GLOBOS NAMUOSE KAIP PAAUGLIŲ SOCIALIZACIJOS EFEKTYVINIMO VEIKSNYS /
… Lithuania is the socialization of teenagers in foster homes. Informal artistic training helps to create public homes for local community, which perform cultural functions throught integration whole the community and stimulate them to develop themselves and to solve the problems. Informal …
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Participação social de adolescentes em situação de acolhimento institucional
… the social participation of adolescents in a Foster Home in the city of João Pessoa - PB. This is a descriptive study, with qualitative approach whose participants were adolescents between 12 and 18 who are in residential care situation in that Foster Home and agreed to participate voluntarily …
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Fostering Healthy Lifestyles: Assessing the Need and Potential Intervention Strategies for Foster Children
… 423,773 children in the United States are in foster care (US Department of Health and Human Services, 2011). While research has documented that childhood obesity is high in foster children, the relationship between nutrition, physical activity, weight status of foster children and the foster …
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Facilitators and Barriers in the Community Placement Process for Developmentally Disabled Individuals Facing Deinstitutionalization
… person was placed into a nursing, group, or foster home; (5) the way the placement process system was perceived as working by the "line worker," i.e., institution and county placement staff who had direct responsibility for cases.
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FOCES: An experimental expert system to select appropriate foster care homes for children
The FOster Care Expert System (FOCES) was developed to provide advice to social workers of the Roanoke City Department of Social Services who must select foster care homes for children who cannot remain with their own families. It was implemented using the General pUrpose Expert Shell System …
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Emotional availability: foster caregiving experiences
… is explanatory for successful adolescent foster care placement--from initial placement of an adolescent to age eighteen or emancipation from foster care, as mandated by the state of Colorado. Emotional availability of foster caregivers and the phenomenon's impact are critical when …
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Reducing Loss To Follow Up in Foster Children: Standardizing the Intake Protocol
… clinic whose patient population is primarily foster children. <strong> </strong>The end goal was to contribute to a decrease in patients who are lost to follow up due to a non-standardized process of admitting patients to the clinic. This was a pilot project establishing a standard protocol …
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Diagnostic factors and their use in differential foster placement of boys : Genesse County (Michigan) Juvenile Court
Research Project (M.S.W.)--Michigan State University. School of Social Work, 1966
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Attachment, Fostering Parenting and Placement Stability
<p>A significant number of children remain in foster care for long periods of time. Among this vulnerable population there is a high rate of placement disruption. Multiple placement changes are more likely to have a negative effect on children in out‑of‑home care than those who remain in the same …
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Exploring the Experiences of Foster Parents Caring for Children with Complex Medical Needs: A Phenomenological Study
When children first enter the foster care system, most are placed in a foster home. These foster parents are tasked with ensuring the child is safe in a supportive environment designed to meet their emotional, healthcare, and educational needs. While no two children are the same, foster parents …
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Alcohol addiction treatment in Cape Town: Exploratory investigation of the public-private mix
… justice system, emergency medical care centers, foster home placement centers, employee assistance programs and family violence centers. The clinical and economic benefits of addiction treatment are therefore clear. The aim of this study was to investigate Cape Town's alcohol addiction treatment …
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The Relationship Among Principal Preparation Programs, Professional Development, and Instructional Leadership Efficacy
… instructional leadership and one's know how to foster home-school relations; b) interviewed principals in one urban school division believe that the principal must act as an instructional leader to facilitate learning in the building; c) interviewed principals from one urban school division …
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Attachment phenomena in foster families: Exploring contributions from foster parents' early attachment experiences
… study was to discover the meanings of foster parents' early childhood attachment experiences with their parents and the influence of those meanings on foster parent's interactions with children in their care. Three research questions were the focus of this qualitative study: (a) How do …
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Experience of Undocumented Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare System
… status of undocumented children placed in out-of-home care. They are assessed using traditional models without consideration of their unique needs and are referred for the same general types of treatment and services. It is important to identify and address the needs and challenges faced by this …
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