Promising Practices and Strategies for Using Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice to Improve Foster Care Placement Stability: A Breakthrough Series Collaborative.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Conradi, Lisa; Agosti, Jen; Tullberg, Erika; Richardson, Lisa; Langan, Heather; Ko, Susan; Wilson, Charles
- Source
- Child Welfare; Nov/Dec2011, Vol. 90 Issue 6, p207-225, 19p
- Subject
- Foster home care
Parenting education
Child welfare
Family services
Foster children
Interprofessional relations
Social workers
Family health
Medical referrals
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Early medical intervention
Psychology
- Language
- ISSN
- 00094021
This paper will provide information on a recent Breakthrough Series Collaborative (BSC) conducted by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network on Using Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Practice to Improve Foster Care Placement Stability. Information on this particular BSC will be provided, followed by initial findings gathered from an evaluation of the BSC and metrics gathered by each of the nine participating teams throughout the BSC process. Specific trauma-informed promising strategies adopted by teams are presented along with recommendations for next steps. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]