Welcome to the Meeting the Health Care Needs of Children in the Foster Care System

The Georgetown University Child Development Center recently completed a three-year study to identify and describe promising approaches for meeting the health care needs of children in the foster care system. In this study, the term health care encompassed physical, mental, emotional, developmental and dental health. The study was funded by the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and supported in part by the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families.

In response to a national search for promising approaches, the study collected information on over 100 different approaches. Multiple products that represent the findings of the study are identified below. As each product is completed, it will be available on this Web site in PDF format.

A Note About PDF Format
The free-to-download Adobe Acrobat Reader software is required to be on your computer in order to view and print PDF files.

An online conversion tool for users with visually disabilities is available from Access.Adobe.com. The tool converts Adobe PDF documents into HTML or ASCII text to be read by assistive screen reading programs.

If/Once you have the Reader software, you may view the publications from links throughout these Web pages.

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To learn more about the project read the Project Description (PDF only)

Framework for a Comprehensive Approach: Critical Components (PDF only)

Summary of State and Community Efforts

Strategies for Implementation

Individual Site Visit Reports

• Arkansas Foster Care: Project for Adolescent and Child Evaluation
• HealthWorks of Cook County, Cook County, Illinois & Healthworks of Illinois, State of Illinois (PDF only)
• Foster Care Pediatrics, Monroe County, NY
• Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) Foster Care Program, San Diego County, CA
• Assessment and Consultation Team, Riverside County, CA
• In-Care Network, Billings, MT
• The Children's Aid Society, New York, NY
• Westchester Institute for Human Development Family Program, Westchester County, NY

Fact Sheets Describing Individual Approaches

• Arkansas Foster Care: Project for Adolescent and Child Evaluation
• Fostering Healthy Children, State of Utah
• In-Care Network, Billings, Montana
• New Alternatives for Children, Inc., New York, New York
• Partnership for Health, El Paso County, Colorado
• Services to Enhance Early Development (SEED), Alameda County, California

If you would like more information about this project, please contact:
Jan McCarthy
Project Director
202/687-5062
jrm33@georgetown.edu