Stability in Foster Care Placements

Support to foster parents 2 The federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 has placed emphasis on the need for stability of foster children in out of home placements for social service agencies providing out of home care. This has led to the importance of determining the characteristics needed to support foster parents in providing stable placements for the children in their care. A significant correlation was not found in this study, between the face to face contacts social workers have with the child in placement and the stability of the child in placement. However, the lack of prior research focusing on the needs of the foster parents and the social worker role in providing stable placements for the children indicates a need for further exploration