A Permanent Family

This interpretive study conducted in-depth interviews and created personal network maps with twenty-nine young adults participating in a program offering resources to help them make successful transitions to adulthood. The aim of this study was to explore their social support networks and examine how foster care might constrain or facilitate supportive relationships into adulthood.

This reference list was compiled by the Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice of Case Family Services. The references are organized by the following categories: permanency practice; kinship care; practice tools; trauma, brain development, and child well-being; and permanency and "aging out" of foster care. The list includes references to the literature as well as to web sites.