What Research Tells Us About the Intersecting Streams of Homelessness and Foster Care - FREE Access
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FREE Access to Full Text: This article was featured in the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness", guest edited by the Homelessness Resource Center and published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Vol 79, July 2009. It synthesizes the latest research about the multi-directional links between homelessness and foster care.
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This paper reviews mounting evidence linking foster care and homelessness and considers new approaches for intervention. Although there is no causal evidence that family homelessness leads to foster care or vice versa, the association no longer originates solely from samples of homeless people, but also from samples of people with childhood histories of foster care. Many programs work with families, children or youth based on their current living situations and limits imposed by funders. This results in discontinued services when the living situations change. Given the strong and consistent associations between homelessness and foster care, a better approach is to design programs that work with transient families regardless of their living situation. Parenting is key. Whether the parents are living with their children in homeless circumstances or are formerly homeless parents working to reunify with their children coordinated, comprehensive, trauma-informed and family focused programs are needed to support parenting and family stability. (Author)
The Homelessness Resource Center is providing open access to the "Special Section on Parenting and Homelessness" published in the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. Please take the time to read each of the articles within this special section (see "Related Items" to the right). You can earn 10 Continuing Education Credits by reading these articles and completing an examination. In addition to the article please find the Continuing Education Credits form attached.
Type of Resource:
Journal
Date Issued:
2009
Journal Name:
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Volume:
79
Issue:
3
Pages:
319 - 325
Location:
Washington, DC
Phone:
800-374-2721