Parental and familial characteristics of family foster care applicants

Orme, John G.; Buehler, Cheryl; McSurdy, Michael; Rhodes, Kathryn W.; Cox, Mary Ellen; Patterson, David A.

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.01.003

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“…Although almost one-half of children in out-of-home foster care in the U.S. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010) and almost four-fifths in Norway reside with non-relative foster parents (Bunkholdt, 2010), remarkably little is known about foster parents in general, either in terms of the most effective recruitment strategies (Berrick, Shauffer, & Rodriguez, 2011;Pasztor & Wynne, 1995;Triseliotis et al, 1995), or the characteristics sought among effective caregivers (Buehler, Cox, & Cuddeback, 2003;Coakley & Orme, 2006;Orme et al, 2005). While child welfare agencies can learn what to avoid by studying the worst foster care tragedies, much more can be gained by examining exceptional care.…”

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“…The U.S. literature suggests that foster parents should have positive attributes in the areas of parenting, marital well-being, and a warm home environment. Foster parents themselves should have good mental health and should have social support readily available (Orme, Buehler, McSurdy, Rhodes, & Cox, 2003;Orme et al, 2005;, and they should be assessed for their cultural competence and ability to meet challenging circumstances .…”

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Dimensions of high quality foster care: Parenting Plus

Berrick

Skivenes

2012

Children and Youth Services Review

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Dimensions of high quality foster care: Parenting Plus

Berrick

Skivenes

2012

Children and Youth Services Review

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“…Foster homes with the highest relationship satisfaction (Orme et al 2004) lowest relationship stress (Lipscombe et al 2004) and highest ratings of parent-to-parent cooperation were the most successful (Linares et al 2006b).…”

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Foster Parents’ Perceptions of Factors Needed for Successful Foster Placements

Brown

2007

J Child Fam Stud

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The purpose of the study was to describe the needs of foster parents for placement success. Sixty-three foster parents from a central Canadian province were asked the following question: ''What do you need for a successful foster placement''? Foster parents grouped together all responses, which were analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis procedures. Foster parents indicated that they needed the right personality and skills, information about the foster child, a good relationship with the fostering agency, individualized services, community support, linkages to other foster families, supportive immediate and extended families, as well as self-care skills. There were some differences between the existing literature and the needs identified by study participants. Differences included the need for information about policies and procedures, their treatment by professionals, and the need for formal foster parent organizations.

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“…Consequently finding effective means to recruit and retain foster families is a central policy priority for ensuring the future of the child welfare system. Orme and colleagues sum up the urgency of the issue well when they describe foster families as, "…a critical, national resource that is in short supply" ( [7], p. 307).…”

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The Empirical Ties between Religious Motivation and Altruism in Foster Parents: Implications for Faith-Based Initiatives in Foster Care and Adoption

Howell‐Moroney

2014

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Amidst a crisis shortage of foster homes in the child welfare system, a number of innovative faith-based collaborations aimed at recruiting foster parents have recently emerged. It has been suggested that these collaborations offer a unique opportunity to recruit committed and altruistic parents as caregivers, providing much needed capacity to an overloaded child welfare system. This paper uses data from the National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents to examine the associations between religious motivations for fostering, altruism and various measures of foster home utilization and longevity. The empirical results demonstrate that religiously motivated foster parents are more likely to have altruistic reasons for fostering, and scored higher than the non-religiously motivated group on an index of altruism. A separate empirical analysis shows that the interaction of high levels of altruism and religious motivation is associated with higher foster home utilization. No association was found between religious altruism and the parent's expressed intent to continue providing foster care. The implications of these findings for current faith-based collaboration in the child welfare arena are discussed.

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Parental and familial characteristics of family foster care applicants

Cited by 30 publications

References 40 publications

Dimensions of high quality foster care: Parenting Plus

Dimensions of high quality foster care: Parenting Plus

Foster Parents’ Perceptions of Factors Needed for Successful Foster Placements

The Empirical Ties between Religious Motivation and Altruism in Foster Parents: Implications for Faith-Based Initiatives in Foster Care and Adoption

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