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AUTHOR(S) Johanna K. P. Greeson; Sarah E. Gzesh; Sarah Wasch (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Sarah J. Beal; Katie Nause; Mary V. Greiner
AUTHOR(S) Claudia Sellmaier; JaeRan Kim
AUTHOR(S) Ryan Hanlon; JaeRan Kim; Cossette Woo (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Lucía González-Pasarín; Antonio Urbano-Contreras; Isabel M. Bernedo (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Adrienne Whitt-Woosley; Ginny Sprang; Jessica Eslinger
Research is needed to facilitate better understanding of how different groups have been impacted by COVID-19, especially those in already strained service systems such as foster care. These inquiries will support further response, recovery and preparedness efforts. This qualitative study addressed how professionals and caregivers in foster care described being affected by COVID-19 in order to support future research and planning for foster care systems in this pandemic context. A sample of foster parents and foster care professionals (N = 357) from a mostly rural, southeastern state in the U.S. participated in the study.
AUTHOR(S) Rachel Rosenberg; Sunny Sun; Alaina Flannigan (et al.)
COVID-19 continues to have devastating impacts across the United States, causing high levels of unemployment and disconnection from work and school. Furthermore, some communities are at higher risk for adverse outcomes due to the pandemic, including transition age foster youth. Transition age foster youth report negative impacts on their employment, educational attainment, ability to meet basic needs, and their connection to work and school. The current study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on key young adult outcomes including education, employment, financial well-being, and disconnection from work and school.
AUTHOR(S) Abbie E. Goldberg; David Brodzinsky; Jacqueline Singer (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Jeffrey Waid; Cynthia Dantas
AUTHOR(S) Hilda Loria; Jill McLeigh; Kristin Wolfe (et al.)
AUTHOR(S) Joyce Y. Lee; Olivia D. Chang; Tawfiq Ammari
COVID-19 is likely to have negatively impacted foster families but few data sources are available to confirm this. The current study used Reddit social media data to examine how foster families are faring in the pandemic. Discussion topics were identified and examined for changes before and after COVID-19. Comments were collected from three Reddit online discussion boards dedicated to foster families (N = 11,830).
AUTHOR(S) Erica D. Musser; Cameron Riopelle; Robert Latham
Media outlets have suggested that rates of child maltreatment may increase during the global COVID-19 pandemic. The few empirical studies that have examined pandemic related changes in rates of child maltreatment have relied predominantly on reports of suspected maltreatment. This study examines rates of documented, substantiated child maltreatment resulting in foster care placement, as well as demographic correlates of child maltreatment within the foster care system, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AUTHOR(S) Saralyn C. Ruff; Deanna Linville
AUTHOR(S) Ratna Verma; Rinku Verma
AUTHOR(S) Sudeshna Roy
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has rattled the world and has severely compromised not only the public health system but has decelerated the global economy. In this backdrop, the article explores the dynamics of the institutional care of the out-of-home care (OHC) children, adolescents and children who are residing in alternative care homes, childcare institutes (CCIs), foster homes and who are in conflict with law like refugees or in juvenile correctional centres. The article attempts to highlight the risk factors and systematic barriers that CCIs and associated functionaries have been confronting in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. It would also catalogue the remedial, preventive and protective initiatives undertaken as best practices.
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