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CoverÂ
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Title
Copyright
ContentsÂ
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: Describing the Problem
1: Foster Youth in Context
2: A Comparative Examination of Foster Youth Who Did and Did Not Achieve Permanency
3: Outcomes for Older Youth Exiting the Foster Care System in the United States
4: Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System: Extending What We Know and What Needs to Be Done with Selected Data
5: Permanence and Impermanence for Youth in Out-of-Home Care
6: Permanence Is a State of Security and Attachment
PART II: Policy Responses to the Permanency Needs of Youth
7: Permanence for Older Children and Youth: Law, Policy, and Research
8: Federal Law and Child Welfare Reform: The Research-Policy Interface in Promoting Permanence for Older Children and Youth
9: Guardianship and Youth Permanence
10: A Fine Balancing Act: Kinship Care, Subsidized Guardianship, and Outcomes
11: Dependency Court Reform Addressing the Permanency Needs of Youth in Foster Care: National Evaluation of the Court Improvement Program
12: Facilitation of Systems Reform: Learning from Model Court Jurisdictions
Part III: Practice Responses to the Permanency Needs of Youth
13: Permanent Families for Adolescents: Applying Lessons Learned from a Family Reunification Demonstration Program
14: Youth Permanence Through Adoption
15: Family-Involvement Meetings with Older Children in Foster Care: Promising Practices and the Challenge of Child Welfare Reform
16: Developmentally Appropriate Community-Based Responses to the Permanency Needs of Older Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System
17: Social and Life Skills Development: Preparing and Facilitating Youth for Transition into Young Adults
18: From Research to Practice: Improving Permanency Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care
Afterword: Making Families Permanent and Cases Closed—Concluding Thoughts and Recommendations
List of Contributors
Index
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