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Foster care and African-American youth / Joanna Kaczmarek, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Children's issues, laws and programs series.
- Children's issues, laws and programs series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American children--Care.
- African American children.
- Foster home care--United States.
- Foster home care.
- Foster children--United States.
- Foster children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (155 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Pubishers, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text aims to resolve the difficult issues of establishing new guidelines for foster care in the unique cases of so many African American children. It consists of public domain documents which have been located, gathered, combined, reformatted.
- Contents:
- African American children in foster care : HHS and congressional actions could help reduce proportion in care / U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Foster care : state practices for assessing health needs, facilitating service delivery, and monitoring children's care / U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Child welfare : HHS actions would help states prepare youth in the foster care system for independent living / U.S. Government Accountability Office
- Hearing on racial disproportionality in foster care, United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support / Child Welfare League of America
- Statement of Daryle Conquering Bear, former foster youth, Colorado before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means : hearing on racial disproportionality in foster care
- Testimony of Casey Family Programs, hearing on racial disproportionality in foster care, before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, U.S. House of Representatives / Oronde Miller
- Trends in foster care and adoption : FY 2002-FY 2007 / Joanna Kaczmarek.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61324-390-1
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