The Professional Foster Care Program is a pilot program designed to provide care and support to female youth, 13-17 with serious emotional and mental health needs through matching them with a foster care parent who is a paid professional employed by the foster care agency. The foster care parent, through undergoing specialized training also becomes the care coordinator for the youth. The foster...

The goal of this three-wave longitudinal study was to analyze foster parent stress and foster children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors in a transactional framework. Participants in this study were 237 children in foster care in the Netherlands with, mostly, long placement durations (M = 56.86 months, SD = 49.10 months). We examined concurrent, prospective unidirectional and bidirect...

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To cite: Carey RN, Driscoll TR, Peters S, et al. Occup Environ Med 2014;71:55–62. ABSTRACT Background and objectives Although past studies of workplace exposures have contributed greatly to our understanding of carcinogens, significant knowledge gaps still exist with regard to the actual extent of exposure among current workers, with no routinely collected population-based data being available ...

Foster parent retention is an important, yet often overlooked, component to long term outcomes for children in the foster care system. A recent pilot study examining the perspectives of four Arkansas foster care caseworkers found that, much like the rest of the country, Arkansas experiences high foster parent attrition. This current study explores the perceived effectiveness among sixteen foste...