RE: problems with kinship care

["Patricia Hall" <PLHall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Below are some cites for articles which relate to this issue: 

Altshuler, S. (1998). Child well-being in kinship foster care: similar to, or different from  non-related foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 20, 369-388. 

Ehrle, J. & Geen, R. (2002). Kin and non-kin foster care: findings from a national survey. Children and Youth Services Review, 24, 15-35.  

Gebel, T.J. (1996). Kinship care and non-relative family foster care: a comparison of caregiver attributes and attitudes. Child Welfare, 75, 5-18.
 
Geen, R. & Berrick (2002). Kinship care: an evolving service delivery option. Children and Youth Services Review, 24, 1-14. 

Geen, R. (2003). Finding permanent homes for children: issues raised by kinship care. Washington DC: The Urban Institute. 

Link, M.K. (1996). Permanency outcomes in kinship care: A study of children place in  kinship care in Erie County, New York. Child Welfare, 75, 509-528. 

Scannapieco, M. & Hegar, R. (2002).  Kinship care providers: designing an array of supportive services, Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 19, 315-327. 

Terling, T. (2001). Permanency in kinship care: An exploration of disruption rates and factors associated with placement disruption. Children and Youth Services Review, 23, 111-126.


>>> "Ron Kokish" <ron@delko.net> 07/30/03 01:12AM >>>
I'd like to see the material you referred to but a PsychInfo search yielding
7 hits on Heather Taussig did not include anything on that topic and a
search on the American Humane web site yielded no hits at all. Can you be
more specific as to where one might look? Is the name perhaps spelled
differently?

Thanks,
Ron Kokish

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu]On Behalf Of
William McGuigan
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 12:40 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Re: problems with kinship care


Some work done by Heather Taussig at the Kempe Center looked at this. They
found children in the foster care system had more positive outcomes if they
were place in non-kin foster homes. I think she published a couple articles
on this topic also.

At 06:27 PM 7/29/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>There is often discussion of the benefits of kinship care.  Is there any
>publications that discuss the potential problems with this type of
>placement?  My fellow caseworkers often comment that family members share
>similar problems (low income, poor housing, crime, bad
>neighborhood).  Where can we find out more on this topic?
>
>RN
>
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