This article was published in, and the following abstract taken from, Social Service Review.

We discuss placement stability and movement patterns among children placed in family and group foster care. Although placement stability has been a focus of child welfare policy and practice, little research explores the actual patterns of movement while a child is in out-of-home care. We apply event count and movement trajectory models to unravel these patterns. The models were tested with a group of children placed out of home in New York City. We provide the results of these analyses, with a description of the latent movement trajectories that characterize the movement histories of the children in the study.