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Lee BR, Thompson R. Comparing Outcomes for Youth in Treatment Foster Care and Family-style Group Care. Child Youth Serv Rev. 2008;30(7):746-757doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.002.
Lee, B. R., & Thompson, R. (2008). Comparing Outcomes for Youth in Treatment Foster Care and Family-style Group Care. Children and youth services review, 30(7), 746-757. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.002
Lee, Bethany R, and Thompson, Ron. "Comparing Outcomes for Youth in Treatment Foster Care and Family-style Group Care." Children and youth services review vol. 30,7 (2008): 746-757. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.002
Lee BR, Thompson R. Comparing Outcomes for Youth in Treatment Foster Care and Family-style Group Care. Child Youth Serv Rev. 2008;30(7):746-757. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.002. PMID: 19122763; PMCID: PMC2515489.
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Child Youth Serv Rev. 2008;30(7):746-757. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.002.

Comparing Outcomes for Youth in Treatment Foster Care and Family-style Group Care.

Children and youth services review

Bethany R Lee, Ron Thompson

Affiliations

  1. Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Maryland Baltimore, 525 W. Redwood St., Baltimore, MD 21201, [email protected] , 410/706-3809.

PMID: 19122763 PMCID: PMC2515489 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2007.12.002

Abstract

Group care programs are often criticized for producing poor outcomes, especially in light of community-based alternatives like treatment foster care that have a stronger evidence base. In this study, data from Girls and Boys Town were used to compare outcomes of youth in treatment foster care (n=112) and group care (n=716) using propensity score matching, a method that can minimize selection bias in nonrandomized designs. Eighteen background covariates were used to develop propensity scores for the likelihood of receiving treatment foster care rather than group care. Several matching methods generated balanced samples on which the outcomes were compared. Results found that group care youth were more likely to be favorably discharged, more likely to return home, and less likely to experience subsequent placement in the first six months after discharge. Legal involvement and residing in a home-like environment at follow-up did not differ. Positive outcomes for group care youth suggest that family-style group care programs may promote effectiveness.

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