Professional foster care: a future worth pursuing?
This article reports on a study comparing the performance of a professional foster care program and two specialized programs in Cook County, Illinois, with random samples of kinship and nonrelative family foster homes. Professional and kinship foster care consistently outperformed the specialized p...
| Publicado en: | Child Welfare Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 108 - 125 |
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Child Welfare League of America
January/February 1999
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