COVID-19 and resource families: An examination of ongoing impact and disparities.

By Matthew Ruderman, Kenyon Lee Whitman, Vanessa Perez, Jill Waterman, Todd Franke, Audra K. Langley
Published in Journal of Public Child Welfare.

ABSTRACT
Resource parents (n = 527) in Los Angeles County were surveyed about their experiences with COVID-19, comparing the beginning of “Safer-at-Home” to over a year later. The findings reveal increased infection rates, maintained or increased reports of adverse impact and coping challenges, decreased reports of positive impact, and increased access to resources across time points. Compared to White resource parents, Black and Latinx resource parents reported both more adverse and more positive impact and less access to resources. Further, single caregiver households reported more financial worries, and foster parents and kinship caregivers reported more coping challenges than foster-adoptive parents.

KEYWORDS
adoption, child welfare, COVID-19, resource parents, health disparities

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