Improving permanency: Caseworker perspectives of older youth in Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement by Tao, K. W., Ward, K. J., O’Brien, K., DiLorenzo, P., & Kelly, S.Publication: Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Reports on a series of focus group sessions with child welfare professionals about their views on Another Permanent Planned Living
Arrangement (APPLA), a permanency option established by the U.S.'s Adoption and Safe Families Act and used only when other options such as reunification, relative placement, adoption, or legal guardianship have been exhausted.