Normalcy for children in foster care in the time of coronavirus
Journal of Children's Services
ISSN: 1746-6660
Article publication date: 27 November 2020
Issue publication date: 15 December 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to describe how a sense of normalcy for young people in foster care can be critical to their well-being.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper reports on policy and practice efforts in the USA to promote normalcy for youth in care. The authors review policy that promotes normalcy and report on one organization's efforts to support these goals.
Findings
COVID-19 has offered profound challenges to the goal of normalcy. Rise Above has adapted to meet the challenges.
Originality/value
The authors argue that COVID may also offer opportunities to build toward a more robust paradigm of normalcy within child welfare policy and practice.
Keywords
Citation
Collins, M.E. and Baldiga, S. (2020), "Normalcy for children in foster care in the time of coronavirus", Journal of Children's Services, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 215-219. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-06-2020-0023
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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