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Foster care is a system in which children, youth, and young adults are temporarily placed outside of their birth family’s home. Placements may be with a family relative or a certified foster parent, in a group home setting or in a residential program. The state maintains oversight of this child-focused system through the involvement of the courts and child protection service agencies. Increasingly, most states have recognized that group care, in which young people are placed in group homes or in a residential setting, is not the best option for youth in need of out-of-home care. As such, other options, such as family care and foster parenting, have undergone extensive and robust development, utilized as often and whenever possible. The general types of foster care include family/kinship care where the youth is placed with someone related by biology or marriage, placement in emergency shelters, traditional county-level foster care (placement with a certified foster parent in...
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Napolitano, D., Smith, B., Cathy, J. (2018). Children with Autism in Foster Care. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102126-1
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