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Article: Foster care: casey program is a good model.(PREVENTION IN ACTION)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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The foster care system in the United States was designed to provide a short-term safe haven for abused or neglected children--a temporary way station of sorts for kids in crisis en route to a more stable, supportive living situation. But for many children and adolescents in foster care, the short-term solution becomes a long-term saga--with consequences that extend far beyond childhood.
According to the most recent statistics released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Child Welfare Information Gateway, more than 800,000 children were in foster care in 2005, and about 500,000 were in foster care on any given day of the year. Of the estimated ...