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Group homes

Here are entered works on planned, single housekeeping units in residential dwellings that provide care for small groups of unrelated residents living together as families, but requiring supervision.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Institutional care
• Rehabilitation centers

• Group homes -- Law and legislation
• Foster home care

• Community residences (Group homes)
• Community-based residences

• A Practical Guide to the Indian Child Welfare Act (online edition, 2011), by Native American Rights Fund (HTML and PDF with commentary at narf.org)

• The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing Legislation (1999), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• Convention on Protection of Children and Co-Operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (aka the Hague Convention; 1993) (HTML and PDF with commentary at hddh.net)
• The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption: Treaty Doc. 105-51 and its Implementing Legislation (1999), by United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (PDF at fdlp.gov)

• State Children in Australia: A History of Boarding Out and its Developments (Adelaide: Vardon and Sons, 1907), by Catherine Helen Spence (multiple formats at Google; US access only)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• The Market in Babies: Stories of Australian Adoption (Clayton, Victoria: Monash University Publishing, c2013), by Marian Quartly, Shurlee Swain, and Denise Cuthbert (PDF and Epub with commentary at monash.edu)

• Falkner: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • all volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Falkner: A Novel (New York: Harper and Bros., 1837), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Triangle's End: A Novelette (New York: Exposition Press, c1954), by William H. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life Blood (c2000), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)

• The Selection of Foster Homes for Children: Principles and Methods Followed by the Boston Children's Aid Society, With Illustrative Cases (Studies in Social Work monographs in child welfare #1; New York: New York School of Social Work, 1919), by Mary S. Doran and Bertha Capen Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selection of Foster Homes for Children: Principles and Methods Followed by the Boston Children's Aid Society, With Illustrative Cases (Studies in Social Work monographs in child welfare #1; New York: New York School of Social Work, 1919), by Mary S. Doran and Bertha Capen Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kinship With Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Judith Schachter (HTML at UC Press)

• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children (Chicago: Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, 1930), by Elias L. Trotzkey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting an Heir: Adoption and the Construction of Kinship in Late Imperial China (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1990), by Ann Beth Waltner (PDF and EPub at Hawaii)

• Transactions in Kinship: Adoption and Fosterage in Oceania (ASAO Monograph #4; Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1976), ed. by Ivan A. Brady (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Almshouse Women: A Study of Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight Women in the City and County Almshouse of San Francisco (Palo Alto: Stanford University, 1896), by Mary Roberts Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• Quicksilver: or, The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Frank Dadd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Under the Old Roof, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Warden, by Anthony Trollope (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• The Book of the Bastiles: or, The History of the Working of the New Poor Law (London: J. Stephens, 1841), by G. R. Wythen Baxter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts (1843), by Dorothea Lynde Dix (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Bulletin on the Condition of the County Almshouses of Missouri (1904), by Charles A. Ellwood (page images at Missouri)

• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Hospital (partial serial archives)

• Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes: Is It Adequate? (1996), ed. by Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Frank A. Sloan, and Carolyne K. Davis (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program: Implications for Medical Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Medicare Hospital Subsidies: Money in Search of a Purpose (Washington: AEI Press, 2002), by Sean Nicholson (PDF with commentary at AEI)

• Medicare's Prospective Payment System: Strategies for Evaluating Cost, Quality, and Medical Technology (OTA-H-262; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files with commentary at Princeton)

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• Neonatal Intensive Care for Low Birthweight Infants: Costs and Effectiveness (OTA-HCS-38; 1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • PDF at unt.edu
  • PDF at ed.gov

• The Incubator Baby (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1906), by Ellis Parker Butler (page images at neonatology.org)

• Thing Street Asylum (revised from Troping the Asylum; 2007), by Jon Thomas Rowland (PDF with commentary at litvision.org)
• Troping the Asylum: Authors and Authorities at the Toronto Asylum, 1850-1920, by Jon Thomas Rowland (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hip Fracture Outcomes in People Age 50 and Over (1994), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Investigation Into the Office of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency's Use of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" on Suspected Terrorists (redacted for public release, 2009), by United States Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, 2015), by Laura Pitter and Leslie Haskell (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency's Detention and Interrogation Program, Together With Foreword by Chairman Feinstein, and Additional and Minority Views (redacted declassified summary version released 2014), by United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, contrib. by Dianne Feinstein, John D. Rockefeller, Ron Wyden, Mark Udall, Martin Heinrich, Angus King, Susan Collins, Saxby Chambliss, Richard M. Burr, James E. Risch, Daniel R. Coats, Marco Rubio, and Tom A. Coburn (PDF at senate.gov)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Best at Home: Assuring Quality Long-Term Care in Home and Community-Based Settings, ed. by Jill C. Feasley (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families (1997), by Australia. Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HTML and PDF in Australia)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.