Foster Children and Youth in Congregate Care Settings: Overview, Issues, and Reduction Efforts

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Aubrey E. Watson (Editor)

Series: Children’s Issues, Laws and Programs
BISAC: FAM004000

About 14 percent of the more than 400,000 children in foster care nationwide lived in congregate care at the end of fiscal year 2013, according to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data. This book examines how selected states have reduced their use of congregate care; and some challenges with reducing congregate care placements, and efforts HHS has taken to help states reduce congregate care. (Imprint: Novinka)

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Foster Care: HHS Could Do More to Support States’ Efforts to Keep Children in Family-Based Care
United States Government Accountability Office

Chapter 2. A National Look at the Use of Congregate Care in Child Welfare
Children’s Bureau

Chapter 3. Statement of Senator Ron Wyden, Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee. Hearing on ”No Place to Grow Up: How to Safely Reduce Reliance on Foster Care Group Homes”

Chapter 4. Statement of Joo Yeun Chang, Associate Commissioner, Children’s Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Hearing on ”No Place to Grow Up: How to Safely Reduce Reliance on Foster Care Group Homes”

Chapter 5. Testimony of Dr. Jeremy Kohomban, President and CEO, The Children’s Village. Hearing on ”No Place to Grow Up: How to Safely Reduce Reliance on Foster Care Group Homes”

Chapter 6. Testimony of Alexandra “Lexie” Morgan Gruber, Former Foster Youth. Hearing on ”No Place to Grow Up: How to Safely Reduce Reliance on Foster Care Group Homes”

Chapter 7. Statement of Matthew J. Reynell, Adoptive Father, Member of Children Awaiting Parents Board of Directors. Hearing on ”No Place to Grow Up: How to Safely Reduce Reliance on Foster Care Group Homes”

Index

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