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Letter from G. W. Robertson, Marion, Mississippi, to W. S. Foster, April 1, 1862
No full textThis item is from the Robert Jemison, Jr. Papers. The collection spans the period from 1797 to 1960 and includes both the personal and business papers of Robert Jemison, Jr., along with papers of Robert Jemison (grandfather), William Jemison (father), Priscilla Jemison (wife), Cherokee Jemison Hargrove (daughter), and Andrew Coleman Hargrove (son-in-law), and Robert Jemison, Jr. (IV) of Birmingham (1878-1973). Included are the records of his grist and lumber mills, plantations, stage line, the Tuskaloosa Plank Road, toll bridges, ferries, postal contracts, and the North East and South West Railroad
Foster care in context: an evaluation of the foster care communication and recruitment strategy
No full textThis report makes important recommendations to ensure the ongoing efficiency and effectiveness of Victorian approaches to foster care publicity and recruitment. It also makes a significant contribution to the challenge of ensuring that foster care remains a sustainable option for the placement of children who cannot live at home.
Further it makes important recommendations to ensure that recruitment processes also meet the needs of potential foster carers. 
What's the Hurry? A Retrospective Study of Former Foster Youth Who Have Transitioned Out of Foster Care and Into Adulthood
No full textABSTRACT\ud
WHAT???S THE HURRY? A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF FORMER\ud
FOSTER YOUTH WHO HAVE TRANSITIONED OUT OF\ud
FOSTER CARE AND INTO ADULTHOOD\ud
by\ud
Sherry Anne Jones-Gore\ud
Master of Arts in Social Science\ud
California State University, Chico\ud
Summer 2009\ud
Numerous researchers have described the processes and transitions that former foster care youth experience. Typically, much of this policy-driven research is focused on negative outcomes (incarceration, homelessness, drug and alcohol abuse, and dependency on public assistance) that effect public institutions. The following study is unique in that it focuses not on the measurements of researchers, but on the memories and emotions of adult former foster children about the foster care system, much of which is funded by a variety of government institutions. This study develops retrospective qualitative data that gives insight into how former foster children viewed their lives growing up in the foster care system and how it affected them as adults. Because this study was conducted within a single family/household, there is an intimacy that is not typically found in previous studies. The author makes recommendations for\ud
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improvements to the system based on analysis of the interviews. These interviews emphasized the relationship of the foster children to what they called ???the system,??? and the pressure such foster children felt to ???hurry??? through childhood as they shifted between many institutions. These issues in turn have an impact on the effectiveness of program delivery while they are in ???the system.??? Such issues also limit the capacity of former foster care children to develop effective skills and plans needed to pursue post-secondary education.\ud
The most important of these recommendations resulting from this study is that any decision-making regarding the lives of these foster children include their own voices, opinions, and desires in the hopes that transiency will be reduced. Ultimately this implies that there needs to be increased government funding. Increasing government funding could provide a positive investment that is a significant aid in the recruitment, training and retention of effective foster parents. Finally one of the last recommendations that this study made was for more options to be provided for foster care youth to obtain higher education. This is needed because they do not have support networks to fall back on. One way these educational options might be provided would be through the establishment of mentoring services within their educational settings.CSU, Chic
The Experience of Being a Foster Parent in Non-Kinship Placements: Emotional and Psychological Impacts
No full textDue to previous life experiences, children who enter the foster care system have been significantly impacted in numerous ways; and the individuals who act as their caregivers may encounter behavioral challenges as they seek to address the result of what years of abuse and trauma have created. However, as placements progress over time, the foster child may also become an integrated member of the foster family and thus attachments are formed. As a result, foster parents may experience the significant impacts of managing severe and challenging behaviors as well as breaking strong attachments with the foster child who has largely become family. Therefore, the intent of this research study was to gauge how managing behavioral challenges and forming attachments with foster children may impact the families in non-kinship placements, emotionally as well as psychologically. Furthermore, it was important to determine if these impacts additionally served as deterrents for foster families to continue their placements. The process of data collection consisted of interviews conducted with foster parents individually as well as a couple when applicable, with a previously established interview protocol serving as a guiding framework. The interviews were then transcribed and assessed for emerging themes, commonalities as well as discrepancies. Lastly, the psychological and emotional impacts of managing behavioral challenges and forming attachments were identified and discussed. As the findings indicate, despite their intensity, these impacts did not serve to deter participants from continuing their role as foster parents. Overall, the findings of the present study were largely consistent with previously cited research and provided additional implications as well as recommendations for future policy and practice
Does emotional resilience enhance foster placement stability? A qualitative investigation.
No full textFrequent changes of foster placement are known to have a detrimental effect on the long-term well-being of cared for children. Foster carers who take on children with challenging behaviours have to draw on resources, both internal and external, to help them build and maintain a relationship with the child that will last. Not all foster carers are successful in this regard. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the role that the emotional resilience of foster carers plays in promoting placement stability.
Seven foster carers, who had a track-record of stable placements (according to national criteria) with children exhibiting challenging behaviours, were recruited from a Local Authority in the North East of England. They attended a focus group and one-to-one interview. Verbatim transcripts were subjected to an inductive grounded theory analysis.
Three potential underlying constructs, namely emotional resilience, interpersonal characteristics and external factors, were found to emerge from the data and identified as likely to influence foster placement outcomes. These data provide a springboard for further quantitative investigation with the potential to screen prospective carers to identify those best suited to ‘difficult’ placements in order to maximise success for the benefit of all concerned
Eulogy for Marie Foster, 2003
No full textRemarks made in eulogy for Marie Foster (possibly delivered by Evelyn G. Lowery). 1 page.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care
No full textCreating adoptions for children waiting in foster care is a good investment, but the number of adoptions created each year meets only a fraction of the need. This paper explores how the organization of the delivery of social services to waiting children and prospective adoptive families influences adoption creation. Cross-section time-series estimates are supplemented with a new augmented fixed effects procedure to demonstrate that the use of contracts with private agencies bolsters adoption creation. Contracts for recruitment and orientation of prospective adoptive parents are particularly effective.adoption, child welfare, fixed effects vector decomposition, foster care, privatization
Chronic lead exposure effects in the cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) testis
No full textAlthough reproductive consequences of high circulating blood lead levels (greater than or equal to 60 mu g/dL) have been reported, potential adverse effects of chronic lead exposure in males that result in low to moderate blood lead levels (10-25 and 26-60 mu g/dL, respectively) are unknown. Effects of chronic lead exposure to testis ultrastructure were determined in the cynomolgus monkey after oral administration of lead acetate (1500 mu g/kg BW/day) in a vehicle in the following groups: from birth to 10 years (lifetime), postnatal day 300 to 10 years (postinfancy), and postnatal day 0-400 (infancy); monkeys in the control group received only the vehicle (95% glycerol and 5% distilled water). At age 10 years, circulating lead concentrations in lifetime and postinfancy-dosed monkeys were approximately 35 mu g/dL, and in control and infancy animals the concentrations were <1.0 mu g/dL. Sertoli and spermatogenic cells of dosed monkeys from the infancy and lifetime groups revealed injuries. Chronic exposure to lead that results in moderate blood lead concentrations induced persistent ultrastructural alterations in the cynomolgus monkey testis. Results of this study on the primate, following extrapolation to humans, could influence further refining of the impact of environmental lead contamination concentrations vis-a-vis the health of children, adults, and aged human beings.PT: J; CR: *ATSDR, 1988, NAT EXT LEAD EXP CHI ASSENNATO G, 1987, ARCH ENVIRON HEALTH, V42, P124 BABINEAU KA, 1991, J SUBMICR CYTOL PATH, V23, P457 BOSCOLO P, 1988, TOXICOL LETT, V41, P129 BRAUNSTEIN GD, 1978, INFERTILITY, V1, P33 BRODY DJ, 1994, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V272, P277 CHOWDHURY AR, 1984, BIOMED BIOCHIM ACTA, V43, P95 CHOWDHURY AR, 1986, FOLIA HISTOCHEM CYTO, V24, P233 CHOWDHURY AR, 1986, IND HLTH, V25, P55 CULLEN MR, 1984, ARCH ENVIRON HEALTH, V39, P431 FOSTER WG, 1993, REPROD TOXICOL, V7, P203 GENNART JP, 1992, AM J EPIDEMIOL, V135, P1208 GHELBERG NW, 1981, J APPL TOXICOL, V1, P284 HAMILTON A, 1974, IND TOXICOLOGY, P119 HERMESLIMA M, 1991, BIOCHIM BIOPHYS ACTA, V1056, P57 HILDERBRAND DC, 1973, AM J OBSTET GYNECOL, V115, P1058 JIUN YS, 1994, ARCH ENVIRON HEALTH, V49, P256 LANCRANJAN I, 1975, ARCH ENVIRON HEALTH, V30, P396 MAIZLISH N, 1990, AM J PUBLIC HEALTH, V80, P931 MALKIN R, 1992, ENVIRON RES, V59, P265 MCGREGOR AJ, 1990, HUM EXP TOXICOL, V9, P371 MURTHY RC, 1991, EXP PATHOL-JENA, V42, P95 MURTHY RC, 1995, REPROD TOXICOL, V9, P483 NORDSTROM S, 1978, HEREDITAS, V88, P51 PANIAGUA R, 1991, J ELECTRON MICR TECH, V19, P241 PIRKLE JL, 1994, JAMA-J AM MED ASSOC, V272, P284 QUINLAN GJ, 1988, BIOCHIM BIOPHYS ACTA, V962, P196 RICE DC, 1990, TOXICOL APPL PHARM, V102, P101 RICE DC, 1990, TOXICOL APPL PHARM, V106, P327 SAXENA DK, 1989, FOLIA HISTOCHEM CYTO, V1, P57 SKINNER MK, 1990, REPROD FERT DEVELOP, V2, P237 SOKOL RZ, 1990, J ANDROL, V11, P521 SUNDARAM K, 1995, REPROD TOXICOL, P99 TEPPER A, 1992, AM J PUBLIC HEALTH, V82, P275 VALERIO DA, 1969, LAB ANIM CARE, V19, P250 VALERIO DA, 1970, LAB ANIM CARE, V20, P734 WALLER K, 1992, AM J PUBLIC HEALTH, V82, P1669 YASSI A, 1991, AM J PUBLIC HEALTH, V81, P736; NR: 38; TC: 3; J9: ULTRASTRUCT PATHOL; PG: 9; GA: YR370Source type: Electronic(1
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