Can Foster Care Interventions Diminish Justice System Inequality?

Autor/inn/en	Yi, Youngmin; Wildeman, Christopher
Titel	Can Foster Care Interventions Diminish Justice System Inequality?
Quelle	In: Future of Children, 28 (2018) 1, S.37-58 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1054-8289
Schlagwörter	Foster Care; Intervention; Juvenile Justice; Child Welfare; Social Services; Placement; At Risk Persons; Children; Racial Differences; Social Justice; Drug Rehabilitation; Mental Health Programs; Health Services; Access to Health Care; Legal Aid; Employment Services; Housing; Adolescents; Young Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pflegehilfe; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Kindeswohl; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Risikogruppe; Child; Kind; Kinder; Rassenunterschied; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Drogentherapie; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Employment service; Arbeitsvermittlung; Unterkunft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener
Abstract	Children who experience foster care, write Youngmin Yi and Christopher Wildeman, are considerably more likely than others to have contact with the criminal justice system, both during childhood and as adults. And because children of color disproportionately experience foster care, improvements to the foster care system could reduce racial/ethnic justice system inequality. Yet the link between foster care and justice system inequality hasn't received the attention it deserves. This article represents the most comprehensive review to date on how foster care placement can affect children's risk of criminal justice contact. Yi and Wildeman review how children come to the attention of Child Protective Services (CPS), how they come to be placed in foster care, and the risks that children in foster care face. They also examine how the child welfare and criminal justice systems intersect, with special attention to the large racial/ethnic disparities in both CPS contact and foster care placement and experiences. The authors then examine strategies that might reduce inequality in criminal justice outcomes at two stages--during foster care placement, and after children age out of the system (that is, after they reach the age when they're no longer eligible to stay in foster care or receive attendant services). They highlight promising interventions that target five critical objectives: the promotion of stability and permanency in foster care placements; expanded and improved access to substance use treatment and mental health care services; provision of legal support for foster youth; extension of employment and educational support for late adolescents and young adults; and supports for securing housing and health care for youth who age out of foster care. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. 267 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Tel: 609-258-6979; e-mail: FOC@princeton.edu; Web site: http://futureofchildren.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01