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- Title
EDUCATION WELL-BEING: COURT OUTCOME MEASURES FOR CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE.
- Authors
Sydow, Nora E.; Flango, Victor E.
- Abstract
Courts, child welfare agencies, and schools are all important to the achievement of safety, permanency, and well-being for children in foster care. Although safety and permanency performance measures have been established, tested, and implemented, the development of court-related well-being measures have not. This article describes the initial effort to establish a set of educational well-being measures to track success in improving educational outcomes for children in foster care. Key Points for the Family Court Community: This article provides insights to assist children in care achieve successful educational outcomes-a key to becoming self-sufficient, productive adults., These newly developed education performance measures provide courts with a tool to measure the educational outcomes for children and youth under its jurisdiction.
- Subjects
FOSTER children; CHILD care; CHILD welfare; FAMILY law courts; EDUCATIONAL outcomes
- Publication
Family Court Review, 2012, Vol 50, Issue 3, p455
- ISSN
1531-2445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1744-1617.2012.01460.x