scholarly journals Specialized foster care and group home care: Similarities and differences in the characteristics of children in care

1993 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 453-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Duerr Berrick ◽  
Mark Courtney ◽  
Richard P. Barth
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Group Home Care ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Specialized Foster Care ◽  
Children In Care

City Kids in the Wilderness: A Pilot-Test of Outward Bound for Foster Care Group Home Youth

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Fischer ◽  
E. B. Attah
Keyword(s):  
Foster Care ◽  
Foster Parents ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Outward Bound ◽  
Care Group ◽  
Pilot Test ◽  
Group Home Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Before And After

Children in urban foster care settings, rarely have the opportunity to participate in adventure-based wilderness experiences, such as Outward Bound. This paper describes the use of a seven-day Outward Bound experience with 23 youth from four foster care group homes in Atlanta, Georgia. The effort examines data collected before and after the program documenting the perspectives of the youth, their foster parents, and their foster care workers in regard to the impacts on the youth. The research highlights the difficulties of evaluating a field-based experience, and provides data that illustrates the potential effects of Outward Bound on youth in group-home care. Further research is needed to fully demonstrate the effects of such efforts and to identify how to best tailor the experience to the needs of youth in urban foster care settings.

Youth in Group Home Care: Youth Characteristics and Predictors of Later Functioning

2012 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-Ying Chow ◽  
Jennifer E. Mettrick ◽  
Sharon H. Stephan ◽  
Christina A. Von Waldner
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Group Home Care

Group Home Care: — an inside view

1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Oakley
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Family Group ◽  
Family Experience ◽  
Natural Family ◽  
Group Home Care ◽  
Inside View

Every child is entitled to share in, and be part of family life. Where the child’s natural family is unable to offer that family experience society is obligated to provide a substitute family. Family group home care should not be regarded as substitute family care. However, if agencies conducting family group home programmes are aware of the limitations of this model, the positive aspects of family group home care may be optimised.

The Changing Mental Health Needs of Youth Admitted to Residential Group Home Care

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 164-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Duppong Hurley ◽  
Alexandra Trout ◽  
M. Beth Chmelka ◽  
Barbara J. Burns ◽  
Michael H. Epstein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Mental Health Needs ◽  
Residential Group Home ◽  
Residential Group ◽  
Group Home Care

Youth in Group Home Care: An Investigation of Negative Peer Influence and Youth Antisocial Behavior

2021 ◽  
pp. 0044118X2110293
Author(s):  
Gershon K. Osei
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Peer Influence ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Group Homes ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Group Home Care ◽  
Negative Peer Influence

The risk of delinquent to antisocial behaviors among youth (teenagers) seem to be more prevalent in group homes than other foster homes. The aim of this study was to examine the association between negative peer influence and youth antisocial behaviors in group homes. Participants were 875 youth aged 10 to 17 at baseline (2010–2011). Logistic regression modeled antisocial behavior and tested the hypothesis that negative peer influence will predict youth antisocial behaviors cross sectionally at baseline and longitudinally after 3-year follow up, and negative peer influence will be moderated by group home size. The Ontario Looking after Children database was used for analysis. Findings indicate that negative peer influence predicts youths’ risk of antisocial behavior (at baseline). The risk increased almost five folds in 3 years. At baseline ( OR = 1.65) and ( OR = 4.90) after 3 years. Generally, findings suggest negative peer influence underscores youth antisocial behaviors in group homes.

Group home care for adults with intellectual disabilities and Alzheimer’s disease

Dementia ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 361-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew P. Janicki ◽  
Arthur J. Dalton ◽  
Philip McCallion ◽  
Diann Davies Baxley ◽  
Anna Zendell
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Intellectual Disabilities ◽  
Group Home ◽  
Group Home Care ◽  
Adults With Intellectual Disabilities
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