Educational Needs of Maltreated Children in Foster Care in the U.S. : Developing collaboration between educational and child welfare systems

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Maltreated children in the United States, especially those who are in foster care, are at risk of school failure. Difficult schooling experiences in turn are strong predictors of later difficulties in maltreated children's adolescence and adulthood. Despite the fact that most children living in foster care attend public schools, few mechanisms exist to support successful collaboration between public child welfare systems and public educational systems. Although the necessity of collaboration between multidisciplinary professionals in implementing social work practice has long been addressed, research has repeatedly revealed difficulties in collaboration between the educational and child welfare systems and between professionals in those two systems. This paper addresses the educational needs of maltreated children in foster care in the U.S. The author (1) reviews previous literature on the school performance of maltreated children who are placed in foster care as well as collaboration problems between educational and child welfare systems, (2) presents new data on recent governmental attempts to meet these children's educational needs, and (3) develops recommendations on how governments can better assist future cross-system collaboration efforts to improve the educational performance of maltreated children in foster care.
関西学院大学の論文
2005-03-15