Facilitating the Transition from Residential Care into the Foster Care; Families and into Community-Based Social Services. Changing Role of Families and Social Care Staff
Facilitating the Transition from Residential Care into the Foster Care; Families and into Community-Based Social Services. Changing Role of Families and Social Care Staff

Summary/Abstract: The children and the care staff are central agents of change in residential care institutions. They have major contributions to helping children and adolescents negotiate the transition back into their families of origin, into a foster care family and the integration in some other specific community based social services. This article presents: (1) some results of the actual researches and studies concerning the transition from the centralized residential care to a decentralized, multifaceted community based social care system; (2) changes in attitude and orientation of the social care staff and decisional staff that can facilitate the transition process; (3) expansion of the functions of child care workers to enable family issues to be addressed on the residential unit; (4) ways of helping adolescents engage in community activities while still in residential care; and (5) strategies for increasing the involvement of child care staff in discharge planning and implementing.

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