Looking After Children in Yukon.
Children raised in government care by "corporate parents" have a right to the same level of care as is expected by "good parents" in community. Looking After Children (LAC) is a research initiative that began in England for the purpose of assessing the developmental growth of chi...
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ftunbcolumbiadc:oai:unbc.arcabc.ca:unbc_15749 2024-05-19T07:49:54+00:00 Looking After Children in Yukon. Dion, Brenda (Author) Bellefeuille, Gerard (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 2005 electronic Number of pages in document: 132 https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc:15749/datastream/PDF/download https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A15749 https://doi.org/10.24124/2005/bpgub337 English eng University of Northern British Columbia Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Child development -- Yukon Child welfare -- Yukon Children -- Services for -- Yukon -- Evaluation HQ792.C2 D56 2004 Text thesis 2005 ftunbcolumbiadc https://doi.org/10.24124/2005/bpgub337 2024-04-19T00:29:37Z Children raised in government care by "corporate parents" have a right to the same level of care as is expected by "good parents" in community. Looking After Children (LAC) is a research initiative that began in England for the purpose of assessing the developmental growth of children raised in care across seven developmental dimensions. In this Yukon study, all Whitehorse resident children in permanent government care from age 1-9 years were assessed using the LAC Assessment and Action Records. In addition to establishing a baseline data base of the developmental needs of children in care, the study also examined the experience of social worker and foster parent participants in using the LAC materials to help inform the ongoing development of the assessment strategy. The study also resulted in the formulation of thirty policy and practice recommendations. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1282432 Thesis Whitehorse Yukon UNBC's Digital Institutional Repository (University of Northern British Columbia) |
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Children raised in government care by "corporate parents" have a right to the same level of care as is expected by "good parents" in community. Looking After Children (LAC) is a research initiative that began in England for the purpose of assessing the developmental growth of children raised in care across seven developmental dimensions. In this Yukon study, all Whitehorse resident children in permanent government care from age 1-9 years were assessed using the LAC Assessment and Action Records. In addition to establishing a baseline data base of the developmental needs of children in care, the study also examined the experience of social worker and foster parent participants in using the LAC materials to help inform the ongoing development of the assessment strategy. The study also resulted in the formulation of thirty policy and practice recommendations. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1282432 |
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