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Item Biological Parents in the Foster Care System: The Role of Intergenerational Trauma(2023) Tomfohrde, OliviaOver 400,000 children and their families are part of the United States foster care system. This system has been designed to provide a temporary place for children to live when it has been determined that it is not safe to live with their biological families. There is a large body of literature on the foster care system. Little of this research, however, has focused on the experiences of biological parents. Perceptions of biological parents as choosing to be intentionally abusive and/or neglectful has created stigma that potentially has influenced their experiences and could contribute to the paucity of literature on their experiences. Research has documented generational links in the foster care system, current parents of children in foster care were often once children in foster care themselves, thus indicating that maltreatment can be generationally transmitted from parents to children. Parents have acknowledged generational parental maltreatment and a desire to break cycles of maltreatment. This qualitative dissertation, guided by family systems theory, aims to explore biological parents’ experiences, and uncover how intergenerational trauma experiences have impacted them, their relationships, their experience with the foster care system, and their need for support. In study one, I examine parents’ experiences with intergenerational trauma, their relationships with their parents, and what they are doing to break the cycle of intergenerational trauma for their children. In study two, I explore biological parents’ relationships with foster caregivers and child welfare system caseworkers, their experiences with relative foster caregivers, and their perceptions of support. These two studies provide an understanding of how family systems theory can be used to understand the experience of biological parents, and advocate for a child welfare system that operates on a trauma informed and empathetic approach to supporting biological parents.Item Kinship Foster Care in Minnesota: A Study of Three Counties(University of Minnesota: Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, 1996-09) Beeman, Sandra; Wattenberg, Esther; Boisen, Laura; Bullerdick, SusanFinal Report to The Minnesota Department of Human Services.Item Out of Home Placement Study.(2001) Connor, JenniferItem Prevalence of Children with Disabilities in the Child Welfare System: An Examination of Administrative Records(Children and Youth Services Review, 2011-11) Lightfoot, Elizabeth; Hill, Katharine M.; LaLiberte, TraciThis article explores the prevalence and characteristics of children with disabilities within the child welfare system using administrative data from the State of Minnesota. This study finds that more than a fifth (22%) of children with substantiated maltreatment are labeled in administrative records as having a disability, and more than one quarter of children (27.9%) over age five. The most common type of disability among children with substantiated maltreatment was emotional disturbance, while other common disabilities included intellectual and developmental disabilities and learning disabilities. Using logistic regression, this study finds that children with substantiated maltreatment with disabilities were about two times more likely to be in out of home placement than children with substantiated maltreatment without disabilities.Item Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality in Foster Care Appendix Tables(2017-07) Myers, Samuel L. Jr.; Sabol, WilliamThere is the common contention that whenever there is a racial disproportionality or racial disparity, there must also be racial discrimination. This chapter argues that one must be cautious in drawing conclusions about discrimination from evidence on disparities and disproportionalities since conventional measures of disparities and disproportionalities do not control for relevant factors that might explain why there are disparities or disproportionalities. We measure disparities, disproportionality and discrimination to differentiate between causes of disparities and observed outcomes in the child welfare system using national data on child maltreatment cases, substantiations and foster care placements. Further, we provide implications for professionals working in the child welfare system when measuring disproportionalities and disparities to avoid false conclusions that all these measures capture the same qualitative concepts.Item Study of Young Children Who are Wards of the State of Minnesota as of October 14, 1996.(Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare, School of Social Work, University of Minnesota., 1997) Wattenberg, Esther; Kim, Hyungmo