10. When the Child Is Sent to Residential Placement

Using data drawn from the Children in Custody (CIC) statistical series, this article presents 20-year trends (1) in the number and characteristics of juvenile correctional facilities, (2) in the number and characteristics of youth held in juvenile correctional facilities, and (3) in the costs of confinement of youth held in juvenile correctional facilities. A brief history and some of the limitations of the CIC data are presented. The new Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement that replaced CIC in 1997 is briefly described. The article concludes that, even after controlling for the size of the at-risk juvenile population and inflation, there were more juveniles, more males, more minorities, and more violent offenders in more crowded, secure, and costly juvenile correctional facilities in 1995 than there were in the preceding years.

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Youth perspectives on parents’ involvement in residential care in Israel

Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1177/1468017318793619 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 64-82

Author(s):

Yafit Sulimani-Aidan ◽

Yuval Paldi

Keyword(s):

Parental Involvement ◽

Military Service ◽

Educational Achievement ◽

Risky Behaviors ◽

Point Of View ◽

Potential Contribution ◽

Residential Placement ◽

Chi Square ◽

Biological Parents ◽

Parents Involvement

Summary This exploratory study deals with biological parents’ involvement in residential placement in Israel from the point of view of 79 youth who left care. It presents youth’s retrospectives on their parents’ involvement in care and the degree to which the placement staff involved parents in reality. The youth functioning while in care and after leaving were also examined according to their parents’ involvement. Findings Results show that only a quarter of the youth reported that staff involved their parents on a regular basis. T-tests and chi square tests showed significant differences in functioning between young adults with high and low parental involvement. Youth whose parents were more involved had better educational achievement in care and after and reported significantly lower involvement in risky behaviors than those with lower parental involvement. However, no group differences were found regarding outcomes in adjustment to military service and financial status. Applications The findings emphasize the gaps in parental involvement in care by staff and the potential contribution of engaging biological parents in the lives of their children while in care and toward emancipation.

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The End of Responsible Relative Liability

Council review ◽

10.1177/001440298705400211 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 171-175 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mark C. Weber

Keyword(s):

Life Skills ◽

Developmentally Disabled ◽

Cost Of Care ◽

The State ◽

Recent Case ◽

Disabled Children ◽

Residential Placement ◽

Handicapped Children ◽

The Cost

Responsible relative liability laws exist to shift some of the cost of care of residentially placed handicapped children from the state to the children's parents. Because residential placement of handicapped children, particularly developmentally disabled children, would not be undertaken but for the need to teach these children life skills, the Education for the Handicapped Act would dictate that these placements be free of cost to parents. Recently, the courts have resolved the tension between the preexisting state-responsible relative laws and the Education for the Handicapped Act. Ruling in favor of the parents, they have invalidated the responsible relative charges. This article describes the conflict, its resolution in the recent case Parks v. Pavkovic, and some of the implications of that decision.

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