Definition
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The US Department of Health and Human Services defines foster care as “24-hour substitute care for all children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the title IV-E agency has placement and care responsibility. This includes but is not limited to placements in foster family homes, foster homes of relatives, group homes, emergency shelters, residential facilities, child care institutions, and preadoptive homes” (Code 2018).
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Public administration, bureaucracy, public organizations, public policy implementation, public management.
The Foster Care Children
In FY2017, 691,000 children were served by the foster care system in the United States with 443,000 children in care on the last day of FY2017 (U.S. Dept., Trends, 1). The number of children served declined consistently from 750,000 in...
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Padot, R.H. (2019). US Foster Care Administration. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3781-1
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