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NEWS ALERT!

In a recent doctoral dissertation, Tia Whitaker from the Administrative Review Division in Colorado, presents that foster care review is a social work intervention and quantitative results of this study demonstrate that as an intervention, timely administrative case review is an effective social work intervention related to improving child welfare outcomes for the children and families served in Colorado.

See the Publications page for an abstract and to download the full study and/or an overview!

 

Mission Statement

 
The mission of the National Foster Care Review Coalition is to serve as a national coalition of independent foster care review programs to ensure, through individual case review and advocacy for systemic change, the safety, well-being and timely achievement of permanency for children in foster care by:

  • Informing and influencing individual state and national policy makers, as well as the public;
  • Promoting the establishment of an independent review system in each state to assess the status of these children; and
  • Supporting the work of active independent review systems

Strategies to Achieve Our Mission

 

  • Providing a mechanism to gather and distribute

              data from independent review systems in order

              to impact systemic reform

  • Identifying those areas in the Federal Child and

              Family Services Review (CFSR) process where

              independent foster care review programs may

              assist their state's assessment and systemic

              improvement efforts

  • Collaborating with groups, programs and

              organizations who have similar goals in order to

              effect positive system change

Why the Coalition's Work Matters

 

Foster Care Review helps individual children, families, and the systems that are designed to help abused and neglected children. This is done by individual case recommendations to the judge, caseworkers, their supervisors, and others involved in the case. Data is collected to track trends and to make relevant systemic recommendations to state legislatures and child welfare agencies.