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Toward a global perspective of family continuity: The effects of international exchange on child welfare practice programs and policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Emily Jean McFadden  and
Jill Worrall
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The International Foster Care Organisation (IFCO) has been a significant vehicle of change within the steadily evolving field of foster care. In two decades of international transfer of knowledge, the organization has examined critical and controversial issues such as the colonization of indigenous people, the insensitivity of ‘Westernized’ systems of care to the kinship networks of children of color, and the needs of families stricken by poverty, dysfunction or oppression. Concurrently, the exchange of knowledge and skill on case planning, dynamics of change, legal issues, foster parent training; and systems of administration led to greater understanding between people working in foster care systems of different countries. IFCO became a moving and reconstituting global village of committed individuals, families, groups and organizations that transcended national boundaries.

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Section Five: Looking forward – International and cross-cultural perspectives
Information
Children Australia , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1999 , pp. 89 - 92
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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