Promising Practice Strategies for Family Foster Care and Current Policy Challenges
- ISBN-10
- 0731351819
- ISBN-13
- 9780731351817
- Category
- Foster home care
- Pages
- 50
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Author
- Peter J. Pecora
Description
The presentation, the 4th in the Macquarie Street Lecture series, reviews some lessons from child and family services research related to family foster care to highlight lessons learned for practice, research and administration.
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