TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose This paper aims to describe how a sense of normalcy for young people in foster care can be critical to their well-being.Design/methodology/approach This paper reports on policy and practice efforts in the USA to promote normalcy for youth in care. The authors review policy that promotes normalcy and report on one organization's efforts to support these goals.Findings COVID-19 has offered profound challenges to the goal of normalcy. Rise Above has adapted to meet the challenges.Originality/value The authors argue that COVID may also offer opportunities to build toward a more robust paradigm of normalcy within child welfare policy and practice.
VL  - 15
IS  - 4
SN  - 1746-6660
DO  - 10.1108/JCS-06-2020-0023
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JCS-06-2020-0023
AU  - Collins Mary Elizabeth
AU  - Baldiga Sarah
PY  - 2020
Y1  - 2020/01/01
TI  - Normalcy for children in foster care in the time of coronavirus
T2  - Journal of Children's Services
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 215
EP  - 219
Y2  - 2024/05/10
ER  -