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Placement Stability Measure and Diverse Out-of-Home Care Populations


  Author: Child Welfare League of America
Publisher: Child Welfare League of America
Publication: National Working Group to Improve Child Welfare Data Highlights
Document Date:                  April 2002
Category: Children > Institutional Care
Related Categories:
Children > Adopted Children
Children > Child Welfare
Children > Foster Home Care
Children > Mental Health
Children > Orphanages
Crime And Violence > Youth Crime
Public Policy > Adoption
Public Policy > Family
 

This report discusses a child's placement stability as a way of assessing the child's well-being in the out-of-home care. The authors suggest that placement stability does not necessarily provide an accurate picture of child well-being, due to the diversity of the foster child population, and the many possible reasons for changing placements.

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