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Download full textWestat, Inc., Rockville, MD. – 2002
This report presents an evaluation of family preservation programs in Kentucky, New Jersey, and Tennessee, and a county program in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Key goals of these programs were reducing foster care placement, maintaining child safety, and improving family functioning. The statewide programs employed the Homebuilders program…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Behavior, Child Welfare, Children
Peer reviewedScannapieco, Maria; Jackson, Sondra – Social Work, 1996
Discusses increased kinship care as a resilient response by the African American community. Strengths and resilience of the African American family can be attributed in part to a strong kinship network. In this manner, the African American community is preserving the family. Concludes this community needs support through imaginative social work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Family, Blacks, Children
