KEEP (Keeping Foster and Kinship Parents Supported and Trained)
Problems addressed
Externalizing behaviors/problems
Low parental skills
Family breakdown and/or dysfunctionality
Effectiveness

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Promising

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Life periods served
Children (4 to 13 years)
Adults (18 to 59 years)
Where the program was applied
Community (streets or community centers)
Country of application
United States
Description

A psychoeducation program for adoptive parents that provides effective strategies for dealing with their children’s behavioral and emotional problems.
Parents learn methods for creating a safe environment, encouraging children’s cooperation, establishing consequences for children’s behavior, and setting effective limits. There are also sessions on managing difficult problems, including covert behaviors, promoting school success, promoting positive peer relationships, and strategies for managing stress caused by institutional care.
Emphasis is placed on active learning methods whereby primary concepts are presented through dramatizations and videos.

Impact evaluations

Evaluation studies have revealed that the program had a positive impact on decreasing institutionalization, positive reinforcement, children’s emotional problems, and decreasing adoptive parents’ stress [1] [2] [3].

Bibliographic reference

[1] Chamberlain, P., Moreland, S. & Reid, K. (1992). Enhanced services and stipends for foster parents: Effects on retention rates and outcomes for children. Child Welfare, 71(5), 387–401. https://www.jstor.org/stable/45398921?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab2903ff3a38a…

(2] Chamberlain, P., Price, J., Leve, L. D., Laurent, H., Landsverk, J. A. & Reid, J. B. (2008). Prevention of behavior problems for children in foster care: Outcomes and mediation effects. Prevention Science: The Official Journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 9(1), 17–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-007-0080-7

[3] Price, J. M., Chamberlain, P., Landsverk, J., Reid, J. B., Leve, L. D. & Laurent, H. (2008). Effects of a foster parent training intervention on placement changes of children in foster care. Child Maltreatment, 13(1), 64–75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559507310612

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