Ruling in Katie A.: Medicaid does cover wraparound, therapeutic foster...

Mental Health Law Report;  April 1, 2006 ;     741 words ......wraparound services and therapeutic foster care services under Medicaid...wraparound services and therapeutic foster care where medically necessary...argued that wraparound and therapeutic foster care were approaches or philosophies...

Attorney trades time in court to focus on kids: CEO of foster care venture...

Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK);  February 4, 2007 ;     787 words ......executive officer of a therapeutic foster care agency. It sounded...working in the foster care industry? A: It...understanding what role therapeutic foster care fits into...you might go to therapeutic foster care, which crosses...

THERAPEUTIC FOSTER CARE REDUCES CRIME

United Press International;  July 1, 2004 ;     196 words ......International 07-01-2004 Therapeutic foster care reduces crime ATLANTA...International via COMTEX) -- Therapeutic foster care programs reduced violent...Control and Prevention, found therapeutic foster care programs reduced violent...

MAY IS NATIONAL FOSTER CARE MONTH

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 2, 2006 ;     381 words ......youth live in traditional or therapeutic foster family homes. We must address the pressing needs of the foster care population now or face the...for generations to come. Foster care promotes the healing process...000 youth will age out of foster care this year - many ...

Foster care system in need of reform

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  May 23, 2004 ;   Bill Frenzel and Bill Gray Christian Science Monitor;   731 words ...WASHINGTON -- Listening to the stories of foster care changes you forever. A foster parent...love for the children she adopted from foster care. A mother cries, recounting how she...college student who spent six years in foster care speaks of its legacy of insecurity...

To fix foster care: reform courts, funding.(OPINION)

The Christian Science Monitor;  May 19, 2004 ;     743 words ......WASHINGTON -- Listening to the stories of foster care changes you forever. A foster parent...love for the children she adopted from foster care. A mother cries, recounting how she...college student who spent six years in foster care speaks of its legacy of insecurity...

In the system: one reader tells us what it's like to be in foster care....

CosmoGirl!;  June 1, 2002 ;     634 words ...Giselle 23, Broklyn, NY I went into foster care when I was 16. I came to the United States to escape...me things like What did you do to get put into foster care? or You're in foster care? You don't look like someone who's in foster care...

National Foster Care Month Campaign Launched For May; Hundreds of Ways to...

U.S. Newswire;  May 1, 2006 ;     787 words ......1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- May is National Foster Care Month ( http://www.fostercaremonth.org...518,000 children and youth living in foster care in the U.S. A partnership of 14 national...Casey Family Programs, launched National Foster Care Month and the "Change a Lifetime" campaign...

Foster Care Report Targets Courts, Financing for Improvements

Yakima Herald-Republic;  May 18, 2004 ;   Charlene Koski;   593 words ......the making, but today a national foster care advocacy group will release its...how to overhaul the country's foster care system. The report is the most...comprehensive analysis of the nation's foster care system ever done, said the commission...

Human Costs of Foster Care: Pew Commission Releases First Report

U.S. Newswire;  February 18, 2004 ;     787 words ......Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, Voices from the Inside, foster...system that is overly reliant on foster care. The structure of federal financing...contributes to prolonged stays in foster care by limiting states' ability to...

Foster care: casey program is a good model.(PREVENTION IN ACTION)

Clinical Psychiatry News;  July 1, 2008 ;   Mahoney Diana;   787 words ...The foster care system in the United States was designed...for many children and adolescents in foster care, the short-term solution becomes a...more than 800,000 children were in foster care in 2005, and about 500,000 were in...

Commission recommends foster care improvements

Charleston Gazette;  May 22, 2004 ;   Susan Williams, susanwilliams@wvgazette.com;   536 words ...A half million children find themselves in foster care on any given day in the United States, members of the Pew Commission on Foster Care report. The children can be in foster care for an average of three years. They are placed there...

Nonprofit switches gears to foster-care placement.(News)(Childhelp U.S.A.)

Crain's Detroit Business;  August 29, 2005 ;   Begin, Sherri;   775 words ......this fall plans to offer therapeutic foster-care placement for children...started in Michigan is with therapeutic foster care, but we're not giving up...plans to begin offering therapeutic foster-care placement and training...

Foster Care Adoption Rate Rises in Virginia

The Washington Post;  December 25, 2003 ;   William Branigin;   787 words ......reduce the time children spend in foster care and to boost adoptions, Virginia...raised its rate of adoptions from foster care by 66 percent, according to a...nearly tripled its adoptions from foster care, and Maryland, which more than...

Congress OK For-Profit Foster Care Funds

AP Online;  November 9, 2005 ;     216 words ......Online 11-09-2005 Dateline: WASHINGTON For-profit therapeutic foster care agencies will be able to receive federal assistance...his state five of the 15 agencies that provide therapeutic foster care services operate under a for-profit model. In...