Children and youth in out-of-home care: What can predict an initial change in placement?

Jedwab, Merav; Xu, Yanfeng; Keyser, Daniel; Shaw, Terry V.

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.04.009

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“…We must point out that kinship children who stay in the same type of care for 36 months are a very small proportion of children in care. Jedwab and associates (2019) identified that the average length for kinship children staying in the same placement was 22 months, and children’s behavioral problems were the primary reason for placement changes. Thus, children who live with relatives for 3 years might have fewer behavioral problems than kinship children overall; however, they might have a higher likelihood of experiencing persistent hardships and economic pressure as more than half of kin families live below the federal poverty line in this study.…”

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Poverty and Economic Pressure, Financial Assistance, and Children’s Behavioral Health in Kinship Care

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Barth

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Child Maltreat

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About half of kinship families live in poverty, and one third of them receive financial assistance such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and foster care payments. This study selected children who remained in kinship care ( N = 267) for three waves from nationally representative data and examined the longitudinal associations among poverty, economic pressure, financial assistance, and children’s behavioral health outcomes in kinship care. Results from multilevel mixed-effects generalized linear models indicated that having economic pressure and receiving TANF were associated with increases in kinship children’s internalizing and externalizing problems. Receiving TANF exacerbated the effects of poverty on children’s externalizing problems, while receiving TANF buffered the negative effects of economic pressure on children’s internalizing problems. However, internalizing and externalizing problems were in the normal range, on average. The results imply that child welfare workers should assess kinship families’ subjective economic pressure in addition to objective poverty. Furthermore, policy makers should reconsider who receives TANF, how TANF is distributed to kinship families, and whether TANF meets kinship families’ needs.

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Poverty and Economic Pressure, Financial Assistance, and Children’s Behavioral Health in Kinship Care

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Barth

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Child Maltreat

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“…This study highlights that school climate, which is located in the microsystem [ 1 ], is indirectly influenced by values in personal, social, and individualistic dimensions through attitudes towards authority. It is relevant to note that these values are primarily obtained in the family microsystem [ 53 ], but are also influenced by more distant subsystems, such as the macrosystem [ 54 ], impacting individual and group behaviors such as school climate [ 7 ]. In this sense, it is relevant to point out that the promotion of adolescent values, which can be learned in the family, educational institutions, or society, will indirectly and positively impact school relationships, which at the same time will be influenced by attitudes towards authority referents.…”

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“…At the exosystemic level, values are indirectly influenced by the neighborhood [ 37 ]. As for the macrosystem, studies highlight the indirect influences of culture, beliefs, and ideas of society [ 54 ].…”

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Relationships between School Climate and Values: The Mediating Role of Attitudes towards Authority in Adolescents

Gálvez-Nieto

Polanco-Levicán

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School climate is related to a wide variety of positive results at the school level; however, its relationship with the construct of values has received little attention, despite being a key variable in the development of personality. This study aimed to examine the direct and indirect relationships between school climate, attitudes towards authority, and values. The participants in this study were 2683 students (51.2% men and 48.8% women) from 32 schools aged between 12 and 20 years (M = 15.78 years, SD = 1.35). Two models of structural equations were estimated, and the model that best fit the data confirmed that school climate was indirectly related to values through attitudes towards authority. The reciprocal and interactive relationships between school climate, attitudes towards authority, and values are also discussed.

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“…However, kin caregivers face different challenges and limitations in terms of their family situation, culture, education and economic status. Children also tend to stay in kinship care for longer periods than those in non-kinship care (Jedwab et al, 2019 ). Training kin caregivers will play a mediating role in the process of improving child outcomes.…”

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Black Kin Caregivers: Acceptability and Cultural Adaptation of the Family Check-Up/Everyday Parenting Program

Krysik

Thornton

2022

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Black children join kinship care disproportionately and black kin caregivers often face financial, housing, mental health, and parenting challenges when caring for relative children. Few interventions have been developed specifically for kin caregivers, let alone Black kin caregivers. This study evaluated the initial acceptability of an evidence based parenting intervention and worked to culturally adapt it for Black kin caregivers. The intervention was delivered in a family camp format. Feedback from participant interviews were analyzed for this study. Participants felt that overall the intervention was culturally appropriate. However, they also proposed changes to the curriculum, as well as to the process and format of the intervention. This study experienced challenges in terms of participant recruitment and sample size, which was exacerbated by COVID-19-related safety concerns. Future steps regarding recruitment, content, and format are discussed. Implications for child welfare practice, policy, and research are also provided.

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Children and youth in out-of-home care: What can predict an initial change in placement?

Cited by 28 publications

References 45 publications

Poverty and Economic Pressure, Financial Assistance, and Children’s Behavioral Health in Kinship Care

Poverty and Economic Pressure, Financial Assistance, and Children’s Behavioral Health in Kinship Care

Relationships between School Climate and Values: The Mediating Role of Attitudes towards Authority in Adolescents

Black Kin Caregivers: Acceptability and Cultural Adaptation of the Family Check-Up/Everyday Parenting Program

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