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by Beam, Cris


  Child Welfare Administration, [>]. See also ACS (Administration for Children’s Services)

  Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  child welfare system

  costs of, [>], [>], [>]

  criteria for success of, [>]

  fee structure in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  “just staying” as goal in, [>]

  legal actions against, [>]–[>], [>]

  length of stay in foster care, [>]–[>], [>]

  negative outcomes and, [>]–[>]

  reform of, [>]

  social policy lines in, [>]–[>]

  training of staff in, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  tricking the system and, [>]–[>]

  types of placements in, [>]–[>], [>]

  working the system and, [>]–[>]

  Civil Rights Act (1964), [>]

  Clarence (Green foster son), [>]–[>]

  class disparities, [>], [>]–[>]. See also race discrimination

  Clinton, Bill (U.S. president), [>], [>]

  cocaine. See crack cocaine

  college, [>], [>]

  Casey group and, [>]

  Chafee programs and, [>], [>]

  foster kids’ hopes for, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  “concurrency planning,” [>]

  Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, [>]

  costs

  of foster care, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  for institutionalized placements, [>], [>]

  Cournos, Francine, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  CPS. See Child Protective Services (CPS)

  crack cocaine

  adoption of “addicted” newborns and, [>]–[>]

  drug testing of newborns and, [>], [>], [>]

  foster care roles and, [>]–[>]

  newborn removal and, [>]–[>]

  outcomes for babies and, [>]–[>], [>]

  criminality. See also incarcerated parents; juvenile justice and foster care, merging of

  attachment disorders and, [>]–[>]

  link between child welfare and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  mixed population at RTCs and, [>], [>]

  Cruz, Jonathan, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Cruz-Katz, Spencer, [>]–[>]

  Cuomo, Mario (New York governor), [>]

  CWOP. See Child Welfare Organizing Project (CWOP)

  David (Green foster son), [>], [>]–[>]

  Department of Child and Family Services, [>], [>]–[>]

  Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS, Texas), [>], [>]

  “diagnostic centers,” [>]–[>], [>]

  Dominique (Green foster daughter). See Welcome, Dominique

  Doyle, Joseph J., [>]

  Education and Training Voucher (ETV) program, [>]

  Edwin Gould (agency), [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also Smalls, Tolightha

  emergency licensing, [>]

  emotional effects on foster kids. See also anger of foster kids; attachment

  losses and, [>]–[>], [>]

  from multiple placements, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  emotional factors for foster parents, [>]–[>]

  Episcopal Social Services, in Manhattan, [>]

  Erikson, Erik, [>], [>]

  Estrada, Rudy, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  failed placements

  foster parents’ perspectives on, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  impacts on foster kids and, [>]–[>]

  proportion of, [>]

  YGB program and, [>]–[>]

  family court

  number of cases heard in, [>]

  substance abuse cases and, [>]–[>], [>]

  termination hearings and, [>]–[>]

  family members

  abandonment of foster kids by, [>]

  adoption of teens by, [>]–[>]

  reporting by, [>], [>]–[>]

  family preservation, as goal

  ASFA mandates and, [>]–[>]

  late-stage efforts and, [>]

  preventive social services and, [>], [>], [>]

  removal rate and, [>]

  “family team conferencing,” [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Family-to-Family program, [>], [>]

  Fannie (foster child), [>]–[>]

  Fatimah. See Green, Fatimah

  federal government

  Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, [>], [>]

  frequent changes in requirements and, [>]–[>]

  “positive tox” babies and, [>]

  fifteen-month ASFA cutoff, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Florida, [>]–[>], [>]

  “forever families,” [>]

  foster care “drift,” [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Foster Care Panic (late 1990s), [>]–[>]

  foster children. See also newborns; teenage foster kids; entries for specific persons

  author’s own story and, [>]–[>]

  perceptions of parental fitness by, [>]–[>]

  reconnection with birth parents, [>]–[>]

  statistics on number of, [>], [>]

  time in foster care and, [>]

  trauma of multiple placements and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  views of therapy and, [>]–[>]

  what they want from foster parents, [>]–[>]

  The Fostering Connection (TFC, NYC therapist group), [>]–[>]

  foster parents. See also Glenn; Green, Allyson; Green, Bruce; Keane, Mary; Mindy; support for foster parents; training of foster parents; Wilson, Steve

  agency placement decisions and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  demographics of, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  difficulties with teens and, [>]–[>]

  emotional health of, [>]–[>]

  as interchangeable, [>]–[>]

  lack of agency support for, [>]–[>]

  letting go process and, [>]–[>], [>]

  licensure process for, [>], [>], [>]

  motivations of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  pay rates for, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  psychological training for, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  recruitment of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  rejection of kids by, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  relationships with birth parents, [>]–[>], [>]

  rights of biological parents and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  shortfall of, [>], [>]

  what kids want from, [>]–[>]

  “foster-to-adopt” parents, [>]–[>], [>]. See also Wilson, Shawn; Wilson, Steve; Wright, Bruce

  Frankie (probation officer), [>], [>]

  Freud, Anna, [>]

  Frisby, Noble, [>]–[>]

  gay foster parents, [>]–[>]. See also Wilson, Shawn

  gay teenagers. See queer kids

  Georgia, state of, [>]–[>]

  Gil, Eliana, [>]

  Giuliani, Rudy (New York mayor), [>]

  Glenn (foster parent), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Goldstein, Joseph, [>]

  Gould agency. See Edwin Gould

  Graham Windham at Hastings-on-Hudson (RTC), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Green, Allyson. See also Green family

  baby Allen’s birth father and, [>]–[>], [>]

  blame for failed placements and, [>]–[>]

  Dominique and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  dreams of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Fatimah and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  parenting style and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Russell and, [>]–[>]

  Green, Bruce. See also Green family

  Dominique and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  failed placements and, [>]–[>]

  fostering teens and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  payment for foster parenting and, [>], [>]

  Green, Bruce, Jr., [>]

  Green, Charles, [>]

  Green, Fatimah, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  adoption process for, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]


  after adoption, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  biological mother of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Chanel and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Dominique and, [>], [>], [>]

  hopes for adoption and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  planned memoir of, [>], [>]–[>]

  running away and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Green, Jaleel, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Green, Sekina, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Green family, [>]–[>]

  baby Allen and, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  battles and, [>]–[>]

  commitment of, [>], [>]–[>]

  Edwin Gould agency and, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  failed placements in, [>]–[>]

  foster teens in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  house rules and, [>], [>]–[>]

  group homes, [>], [>]

  adolescent sex offenders and, [>]

  child abuse in, [>]–[>]

  costs for care in, [>], [>]

  critiques of, [>], [>], [>]

  Kecia’s view of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  lack of love in, [>]–[>], [>]

  therapeutic services and, [>]–[>]

  guardian ad litem, [>], [>]

  guilt of leaving, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  “hard-to-place” kids, [>], [>]. See also teenage foster kids

  Holy Cross Campus of Pius XII (RTC), [>]–[>]

  homelessness, and foster care, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  You Gotta Believe! program and, [>]–[>]

  house rules, [>]

  identity crisis, [>]

  ILPs. See independent living programs (ILPs)

  “imminent risk,” [>]–[>], [>]

  “Improved Outcomes for Children” (I.O.C.), [>]–[>]

  incarcerated parents

  contacts with children and, [>], [>]

  drug treatment for, [>]

  outcomes for children and, [>]

  rights of, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  independent living programs (ILPs)

  agency services and, [>]–[>]

  effectiveness of, [>], [>]

  Keane’s home and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  state programs for, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  teen fantasies about, [>], [>]–[>]

  institutional interactions, and reporting, [>]–[>]

  institutionalization. See group homes; residential treatment centers

  “intensive family preservation services,” [>]

  Internet, and foster kids, [>]–[>]

  investigators, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]. See also caseworkers

  Izquierdo, Elisa, [>], [>]

  Jackson, Chester, [>]–[>]

  Jay Jay (Mary Keane’s adopted son). See Rosario-Keane, Jay Jay

  John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (“Chaffee laws”), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Jonathan (foster child). See Cruz, Jonathan

  “just staying” with foster kids. See also attachment; Keane, Mary; love

  Dominique and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  as goal in child welfare system, [>]

  the Greens and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Kecia’s thesis about, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]

  as policy goal, [>]

  Juvenile and Family Court Journal, [>]

  juvenile hall, [>]

  juvenile justice and foster care, merging of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Kansas, [>]–[>]

  Keane, Mary, [>]–[>]

  Rosario kids and, [>]

  work with older teens and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  You Gotta Believe! program and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Kecia (former foster child). See Pittman, Kecia

  Kemp, C. Henry, [>], [>]

  “kinship care,” [>], [>]. See also family members

  Laurenceau, Doris, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  law guardian, [>]

  Lei (former foster child), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  as child welfare worker, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan, [>]

  lesbian teens. See Keane, Mary; queer kids

  Lester, Barry M., [>]–[>]

  listening, [>]–[>], [>]

  Los Angeles County, [>]–[>]

  love. See also attachment; “just staying” with foster kids

  as benefit to foster parents, [>]–[>]

  foster kids’ inability to, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  foster kids’ testing of, [>], [>]–[>]

  from foster parents, [>], [>]

  group homes and, [>]–[>], [>]

  Lowry, Marcia Robinson, [>]–[>], [>]

  mandated reporting, [>], [>]

  Martin (foster parent). See Wilson, Shawn

  Mattingly, John B., [>], [>]

  maximum capacity, [>]–[>]

  mental disabilities in foster kids, [>], [>]–[>]. See also Russell

  methamphetamine, and babies, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Mindy (foster parent), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Miracle Makers (foster agency), [>]–[>]

  Missouri Model, [>]

  “moral adoption,” [>]–[>], [>]

  Mothers’ Pension Programs, [>]

  multiple placements. See also attachment; failed placements

  attachment disorders and, [>]

  “family team conferencing” period and, [>]–[>]

  kids’ emotional walls and, [>]–[>]

  maltreatment of foster kids and, [>], [>]

  reduction of, as goal, [>]

  rejection by foster parents and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR), [>]

  National Incidence Study (NIS) for Child Abuse and Neglect, [>]

  National Institute on Drug Abuse, [>]

  National Youth in Transition Database, by AFC, [>]

  NCCPR. See National Coalition for Child Protection Reform (NCCPR)

  neglect, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  newborns, [>]–[>]

  adoption process for, [>]–[>]

  drug-exposed, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  racism in drug testing and, [>]–[>]

  New York City. See also ACS

  average duration of foster care in, [>]–[>]

  family court cases in, [>]

  IOC rules in, [>]–[>]

  privatization of foster care in, [>]

  Shirley Wilder case in, [>]

  SILP program in, [>]

  teen prostitutes in, [>]–[>]

  New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, [>]–[>]

  New York State

  Education and Training Voucher program in, [>]

  legislation in, [>], [>]

  rights of prisoners in, [>]–[>]

  NIS study. See National Incidence Study (NIS) for Child Abuse and Neglect

  Noble (adopted baby). See Wilson, Noble

  Obama, Barack (U.S. president), [>], [>]

  O’Brien, Pat, [>], [>]–[>]

  ODD. See Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD)

  Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), in New York, [>]

  Oliver (Steve Wilson’s adopted baby), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Oneida (foster child), [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD), [>]

  Oregon, [>]–[>]

  outcomes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]. See also aging out; attachment; homelessness, and foster care; independent living programs (ILPs)

  with birth vs. foster parents, [>], [>]

  Chaffee programs and, [>]–[>]

  crack babies and, [>]–[>]

  Dominique and, [>]–[>]

  “outdoor relief,” [>]

  oversight, lack of, [>]. See also accountability

  parens patriae, [>]

  parent advocate, [>], [>]

  parental rights

  federal
law and, [>]–[>]

  foster parents and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  prison and, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  removal of children and, [>]

  support for, [>]–[>]

  parental termination

  ASFA and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  contact with children and, [>

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