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Relationship Between Discharge Outcomes For Treatment Foster-Care Clients And Program Characteristics

BURT GALAWAY is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work, the University of Manitoba. He received his PhD in social work from the University of Minnesota. His current professional work and interests include specialized foster care services, victim-offender mediation, and problem-solving models of social work practice.

Richard W. Nutter

RICHARD W. NUTTER is an associate professor in the Edmonton Division of the Faculty of Social Work, the University of Calgary, and a registered social worker and a chartered psychologist in the province of Alberta. He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Alberta. His current professional work and interests include child welfare, mental health, care for older adults, and the functioning of social work as a profession in emerging organizational structures.

Joe Hudson

JOE HUDSON is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work, the University of Calgary and a certified social worker in the state of Minnesota, and the province of Alberta. He received his PhD from the University of Minnesota. His current professional work and interests include evaluation research in child welfare and juvenile and criminal justice.

Data collected from a survey of treatment foster-care programs permitted an exploratory study of relationships among type of discharge (planned or unplanned), restrictiveness of postdischarge living arrangements, and the program characteristics (per client annual cost, basis of payments and amount paid to family care providers, preservice and inservice training requirements for family care providers, maximum caseload permitted for social workers, program treatment theory, program size, maximum number of placements permitted per family care provider, and the average number of clients per home). Data were available for 1,521 youth discharged from 210 treatment foster-care programs in the United States and Canada. Of the total discharges, 60% were planned, and 63% of the youth were discharged to settings less restrictive than treatment foster care. No meaningful associations were found between program characteristics and type of discharge or restrictiveness of discharge setting. Additional research is necessary to establish the relationship, if any, between program characteristics and program success before moving to impose standards that may increase the cost of delivering treatment foster care but not increase program success.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 3, No. 1, 46-54 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669500300106


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