The Social and Emotional Well-Being of Children in Foster Care

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The Behavioral and Mental Health Needs of Children in Foster Care Recent research from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being finds that children and youth in foster care have high levels of mental health needs and that those needs are not being met. Children and youth in foster care with mental health disorders stay in foster

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