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Data Management Plan for project "From Foster Care to Adoption"
Mariana Pinto ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This is a data management plan for a project on how children move from foster care to adoption. The project looks at how children, foster families and adoptive families experience these transitions under a practice model called Family-to-Family. The model aims to make the move a continuation of care rather than a break. The project plans to combine quantitative and qualitative methods in a participatory approach. The document gives no results.
Key points
- Foster care and adoption are described as alternative care measures that can give maltreated youth secure and protective family care.
- Abrupt transitions from foster families to adoptive ones may feel disruptive to children and families.
- The Family-to-Family program is a practice model developed to assure the quality of transitions, treating them as continuities of caregiving.
- The project will combine quantitative and qualitative methods within a participatory approach.
- The authors expect the findings to support the program's implementation and improve understanding of transition processes.
Limitations
The document is a short project description from a data management plan and reports no data, results or findings. It does not say how many people take part, which methods are used in detail, or how participation is carried out.
Abstract
Growing up in a nurturing environment is one of children's fundamental rights. For maltreated youth, both foster care and adoption are alternative care measures that may give them something they haven't had the chance to experience previously: secure and protective family care. However, as a temporary measure, abrupt transitions from foster care families to adoptive ones may feel disruptive to children and families alike. We propose to understand how transitions are perceived and experienced by everyone involved, under the Family-to-Family program, a practice model developed to assure the quality of the transitions, marking them as continuities instead of disruptions of caregiving. This project will integrate quantitative and qualitative methods within a participatory approach, and it is our expectation that findings will provide empirical support to the Family to Family program implementation and, more broadly to an evolved understanding of these transition processes, ensuring that every child’s journey into adoption is as supportive and seamless as possible.