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Effects Of Residential And School Mobility On Foster Children's Academic Performance, Brigette Vanessa Miller, Mabel Salvatierra

Theses Digitization Project

When Child Protective Services (CPS) enters the picture assisting hard shipped families, the child may get placed in a foster home thus starting the cycle of mobility-the child is often moved from one home to another, one school to another resulting in a lack of residential and academic continuity for the child, which in turn results in negative effects in behavior, emotions and academia.