Carnochan Sarah, Lee Chris, Austin Michael J
Bay Area Social Services Consortium, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720-7400, USA.
J Evid Based Soc Work. 2013;10(3):220-34. doi: 10.1080/15433714.2013.788952.
Despite the federal emphasis on achieving timely permanency for children who enter foster care, some children continue to remain in foster care for extended periods, with approximately 20,000 children a year "aging out" of foster care into adulthood without having achieved permanency in a family setting ( Dworsky, 2008 ). This literature review focuses on the federal Child and Family Services Review measure that measures agency performance related to achieving permanency for children in foster care for long periods of time. The review summarizes the factors associated with timely discharges from care; while each child and family involved with the child welfare system brings a set of unique challenges and characteristics, research points to common individual and system factors that may be associated with long stays in foster care. Broad strategies that may be linked to achieving permanency are described, followed by explicit models developed to increase the likelihood of timely permanency.
尽管联邦政府强调要让进入寄养机构的儿童及时实现永久性安置，但仍有一些儿童在寄养机构中长期滞留，每年约有2万名儿童“超龄”离开寄养机构进入成年期，却未能在家庭环境中实现永久性安置（德沃尔斯基，2008年）。本文献综述聚焦于联邦儿童与家庭服务审查措施，该措施衡量了机构在让寄养儿童长期实现永久性安置方面的表现。综述总结了与及时脱离照料相关的因素；虽然每个参与儿童福利系统的儿童和家庭都带来了一系列独特的挑战和特征，但研究指出了一些可能与长期寄养相关的常见个人和系统因素。文中描述了可能与实现永久性安置相关的广泛策略，随后介绍了为提高及时实现永久性安置的可能性而制定的明确模式。
