The subject of the new foster care support program at the time soon after foundation - Research on some components and typification of support program

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23530801
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Aoyama Gakuin Women's Junior College
• Principal Investigator: YOKOBORI Masako 青山学院女子短期大学, 子ども学科, 教授 (10289879)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 里親支援機関事業 / 里親養育 / 家庭養護 / 里親家庭支援 / 社会的養護施設 / 児童相談所

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project of facilitating support for foster families enabled local governments to consign the assistance of foster parents, which used to be the operation exclusively assigned to Child Guidance Offices, to the private sector. In many cases, however, the governments still partly cosign the operation, or Child Guidance Offices directly operate the project. The project is authorized to local governments, including and limited to prefectures and cities designated by government ordinance. And, although the governments started to cosign the operation to nurseries, children’s care facilities, Child/Family Support Center, NPOs and association of foster parents. Therefore, in this research, I first constructed the types of models by operator, such as the child guidance office type, the facility type, the foster parent type and the local organization type. Then, following to and based on the results from interview surveys, I examined the characteristics and problems of respective model.

Free Research Field

子ども家庭福祉、社会的養護