foster placement
Child's interim home
Foster placement is the arrangement of a child in the care of people other than their biological parents, typically coordinated by government agencies or courts.
The term covers both the process of finding a suitable home and the resulting living situation: The social worker arranged foster placement for the siblings together.
Foster placements may be temporary while families work toward reunification, or may lead to adoption.
- childPerson before puberty
- caseworkerAgency employee helping clients
- case managerProfessional coordinating client services
- guardianProtective caretaker of another
- temporaryLimited in duration
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- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, child services, protective services, child protective services
- juvenile detentionjuvenile hall, juvenile facility, juvie, reform school, detention center
- placingpositioning, putting, inserting, setting, locating
- family lawchild custody, child support, alimony, family court, divorce petitions
- placement types
foster placementbirth family
Relatives by blood origin
family reunification · family of origin · biological parents · reunification · kinship care
foster placementinstitutional care
Professional supervision in facilities
group home · residential facility · children's home · orphanage · residential treatment
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