ACS develops 5 year plans to address barriers to permanency for children in foster care.

T he ACS Foster Care Strategic Blueprint outlines its key priorities and strategies to strengthen case practice and improve safety, permanency and well-being outcomes for children and families involved in the foster care system. Each year, ACS issues a report on its progress.

The Task Force issues recommendations to improve services and outcomes for youth in and aging out of foster care

The New York City Health Department publishes data and statistics on diabetes, including prevalence rates, hospitalization rates, and mortality rates. The data is used to monitor trends in diabetes and to inform public health interventions.

Next steps to improve educational outcomes for students in foster care. Youth in the foster system have some of the most complex educational needs and bleakest academic outcomes of any student group.

The case for a DOE office for students in foster care.  School has the potential to be an important stabilizing force in the lives of students in foster care; it can be a safe haven where they receive consistent support from teachers, social workers, friends, and other members of the school community during the traumatizing separation from home and family.

This study reports the high school graduation rates of New York City youth who experience foster care. Using administrative data and rigorous research methods, CIDI calculated graduation rates and identified the factors that help and hinder youth with foster care experience in graduating from high school.

As part of an ongoing collaboration to improve education support for children in foster care, Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) and SCO Family of Services (SCO) partnered in early 2017 to enhance parent involvement in education for families with children in foster care

ACS surveyed all families in contracted prevention programs about their experiences in prevention services. The purpose of the survey is to better understand the lived experiences of families while participating in prevention services. This survey is administered annually.

Nuria Molano, Esperanza León, Jesús M. Jiménez-Morago & Carlos Camacho. Journal of Child and Family Studies. Foster children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties are often a challenge for foster caregivers, who may experience reduced feelings of competence in their parental role, as well as increased levels of parental stress. In turn, these difficulties can negatively affect the quality of the interactions between them.

Cheryl Buehler, Mary Ellen Cox, and Gary Cuddeback. Foster parents’ perceptions of familial and parental factors that promote or inhibit successful fostering were examined using semi-structured interviews. Characteristics that facilitate successful fostering include faith or support from church, a deep concern for children, tolerance, a strong cooperative marriage in married foster families, and a daily life that is characterized as organized and routinized but flexible in terms of responding to children’s needs and external demands.

Quest, A. Del Fullerton, Ann Geenen, Sarah Powers, Laurie. Very little in-depth information is available on the educational and transition experiences, perceptions, and actions of youth in foster care who are receiving special education services. This paper describes a qualitative study that followed seven youth in foster care receiving special education services, ages 15 to 18, for six to nine months.

Armeda Stevenson Wojciak , Bryan P. Range , Dumayi Gutierrez , Nathan A. Hough, Casey Michael Gamboni. The sibling relationships of youth in foster care has garnered increased attention over the past few years indicating the potential protective role these relationships can have. Despite this growth, very little is known about how foster parents perceive the sibling relationships of youth in foster care and ways to promote these relationships.

Foster family care is associated with adverse short- and long-term consequences for the child. A systematic review was conducted on interventions for foster children and foster careers. Method: A comprehensive search process was used to find eligible interventions evaluated in randomized controlled trials or quasi-experimental studies.