Re: abuse in foster care

["Dineen Cicco" <dineencicco@xxxxxxxx>]

The link below is Florida's Family Safety Operating Procedures (OP) Manual.
They have an OP for investigatons that includes foster homes.  The licensing
staff also becomes involved in the process
http://www5.myflorida.com/cf_web/myflorida2/healthhuman/publications/fsdr.ht
ml
----- Original Message -----
From: Lourdes Diaz <LourdesLatorre@worldnet.att.net>
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 9:43 AM
Subject: abuse in foster care


> On November, 2001 Peter Lyons wrote about Georgia standards for
> substantiation of abuse in foster care. He mentioned a disparity on how
this
> problem is assessed in foster families as opposed to the general
population.
> I am trying to find how it is approach  in other sates, specifically New
> York.  Also, do  agencies policies/practice of investigation  to  reports
of
> abuse or neglect in foster care setting differs from the ones from  the
> general population.  Any knowledge of  recent (last  4 years) studies in
the
> area of child maltreatment in foster care? Thanks , Lourdes Diaz, New York
>