Construction of "Future image of the foster care system" in Japan - Cooperation between foster parents, facilities and administration -

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380749
• 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: Osaka Prefecture University
• Principal Investigator: ITO Kayoko 大阪府立大学, 人間社会システム科学研究科, 教授 (10389702)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Fukuda Kiminori 関西大学, 健康福祉学部, 准教授 (20342264) ; ISHIDA Kanako 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 准教授 (50551850)
• Research Collaborator: NAGANO Saki 日本子ども家庭総合研究所, 非常勤研究員 ; Sashikata Naomi Douglas College, 事務スタッフ
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 社会的養護 / 里親 / 里親支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we conducted three large-scale surveys of (1) questionnaire survey targeting foster parents, (2) interview survey targeting foster parents, and (3) hearing survey on foster care support system in British Columbia, Canada . As a result, it is the key to support not only foster parents who are nurturing consigning foster parents but also unconditional foster parents, and it is the key to open foster care to the community, but it is the key to how to create foster care areas , The need to introduce foster-level systems, were clarified.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学