Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Foster Youth in Context 9
5. 2. A Comparative Examination of Foster Youth Who Did and Did Not Achieve Permanency 32
6. 3. Outcomes for Older Youth Exiting the Foster Care System in the United States 40
7. 4. Outcomes for Youth Exiting the Foster Care System 75
8. 5. Permanence and Impermanence for Youth in Out-of-Home Care 88
9. 6. Permanence Is a State of Security and Attachment 109
10. 7. Permanence for Older Children and Youth 123
11. 8. Federal Law and Child Welfare Reform 147
12. 9. Guardianship and Youth Permanence 156
13. 10. A Fine Balancing Act: Kinship Care, Subsidized Guardianship, and Outcomes 176
14. 11. Dependency Court Reform Addressing the Permanency Needs of Youth in Foster Care 187
15. 12. Facilitation of Systems Reform 210
16. 13. Permanent Families for Adolescents 219
17. 14. Youth Permanence Through Adoption 244
18. 15. Family-Involvement Meetings with Older Children in Foster Care 266
19. 16. Developmentally Appropriate Community-Based Responses to the Permanency Needs of Older Youth Involved in the Child Welfare System 291
20. 17. Social and Life Skills Development 313
21. 18. From Research to Practice 337
22. Afterword 357
23. Contributors 369
24. Index 375
25. Introduction 1