Parental Loss Due to HIV: Caring for Children as a Community Issue—The Rochester, New York Experience

The number of children in the United States who will lose a parent to AIDS is increasing. Permanency planning to help families affected by AIDS includes case management, mental health, medical care, child welfare, and legal services. These services are provided by a number of different professions,...

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Published in:Child welfare 1998-03, Vol.77 (2), p.137-160
Main Authors: Taylor-Brown, Susan, Teeter, Judith Ann, Blackburn, Evelyn, Oinen, Linda, Wedderburn, Lennard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
African Americans
Agency Cooperation
AIDS/HIV
Bereavement
Caregivers
Case Management
Caseworker Approach
Child
Child Custody
Child Welfare
Childhood Needs
Children
Children & youth
Cities
Community Health Planning
Community Relations
Community Services
Coordination
Cultural Sensitivity
Death
Dependents
Drug Use
Ethnicity
Family (Sociological Unit)
Foster Home Care
HIV Infections - psychology
Humans
Interdisciplinary Approach
Legal Aid
Medical Services
Mental Health Programs
Minority Groups
New York
New York (Rochester)
New York State
Parent Child Relations
Parents
Parents & parenting
Permanency Planning
Permanency Planning (Foster Care)
Program Descriptions
Public Health
Responses
Rochester
Service Delivery Assessment
Social Services
Social Support Groups
Social Work
Social Workers
Urban Health
USA
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Summary:The number of children in the United States who will lose a parent to AIDS is increasing. Permanency planning to help families affected by AIDS includes case management, mental health, medical care, child welfare, and legal services. These services are provided by a number of different professions, and have largely been reactive and noncoordinated. This article presents the efforts of one community in a midsize city to develop and implement a multidisciplinary coordinated plan for providing services to children affected by the illness or death of a parent from HIV/AIDS.
ISSN:0009-4021