Recently added articles from Child Welfare:
Social Networks, Informal Child Care, and Inadequate Supervision by Mothers
Nov 01, 2007; ... The purpose of this study is to determine whether less informal child care support from family and friends is related to supervisory neglect and, if there is a relationship, to test several explanations for why some mothers receive less child care. Thirty-two low-income mothers who did not ...
Child Welfare Workplace: The State of the Workforce and Strategies to Improve Retention
Nov 01, 2007; ... Child welfare systems throughout the United States are being closely scrutinized as sensational cases appear in the media in nearly every state. At the federal level, with the Child and Family Service Review process, the government is documenting that states across the country are not conforming ...
The Training Process of the Maryland Guardianship Assistance Project: A Collaborative Model for Kinship Foster Care
Nov 01, 2007; ... Understanding models of multidisciplinary collaborations in child welfare has become essential for policy development, program success, and improving outcomes for children in foster care. The authors present the state of Maryland's Guardianship Assistance Project (GAP) as a model of ...
Youth Characteristics Associated with Behavioral and Mental Health Problems During the Transition to Residential Treatment Centers: The Odyssey Project Population
Nov 01, 2007; ... This study aimed to determine what youth characteristics were associated with emotional and behavioral problems exhibited within the first three months of placement in residential treatment centers (RTCs) in a sample of youth from 20 agencies in 13 states. Two primary research questions were ...
Outcomes of a Randomized Trial of Continuum of Care Services for Children in a Child Welfare System
Nov 01, 2007; ... The Connecticut Department of Children and Families Title IV-E waiver demonstration evaluated whether the well-being of children approved for residential mental health services could be improved, and lengths of stay in restrictive placements reduced, by providing case rate payments to community ...
Shaping Child Welfare Policy Via Performance Measurement
Nov 01, 2007; ... Performance measurement is generally depicted as a neutral, technical exercise providing objective data for decision-making. But it also has a normative role in framing policy problems and solutions. This article explores the role of indicators in shaping child welfare, comparing stated policy ...
Introduction
Sep 01, 2007; ... This volume is dedicated to advances in policies, programs, and practices for effectively addressing the mental health issues in child welfare practice, and it reflects CWLA's and the Mental Health Advisory Board's commitment to ensuring children and their families receive effective mental ...
Mental Health Assessment of Infants in Foster Care
Sep 01, 2007; ... Infants placed in foster care are at high risk for emotional and behavioral problems. Assessment of their mental health must account for their often-adverse life experiences prior to placement and the involvement of multiple systems that shape their lives in lieu of parents' authority. This ...
Effectively Addressing Mental Health Issues in Child Welfare Practice: The Family Connection
Sep 01, 2007; ... Nonprofit family-run organizations, such as Tennessee Voices for Children (TVC), are providing leadership in advocating for and delivering services to children and families in need. Utilizing a family-driven approach and a staff partially comprised of parent-professionals, TVC's Nashville ...
The Influence of Family Environment on Mental Health Need and Service Use Among Vulnerable Children
Sep 01, 2007; ... Children in child welfare are especially likely to have unmet mental health needs. The role of family factors in children's use of mental health services was examined in a longitudinal sample of 1,075 maltreated or at-risk children. Vulnerable family environment (poor family functioning, low ...
Fostering Healthy Futures: An Innovative Preventive Intervention for Preadolescent Youth in Out-of-Home Care
Sep 01, 2007; ... Fostering Healthy Futures (FHF) is a randomized, controlled trial of an innovative preventive intervention for preadolescent youth (ages 9-11) placed in out-of-home care. The program is designed to promote child well-being by identifying and addressing mental health issues, preventing adolescent ...
Effectively Addressing Mental Health Issues in Permanency-Focused Child Welfare Practice
Sep 01, 2007; ... Children and families built by adoption or relative caregiving have specialized needs. This paper proposes a rubric for the central elements of permanency-focused mental health services in child welfare practice. Kinship Center provides an innovative mental health service delivery system, ...
Creating More Trauma-Informed Services for Children Using Assessment-Focused Tools
Sep 01, 2007; ... This article promotes integrating assessment and evidence-based practice in the treatment of traumatized children through a review of two newly developed trauma assessment tools: (1) the Child Welfare Trauma Referral Tool (CWT), and (2) Assessment-Based Treatment for Traumatized Children: A ...
Psychotropic Medication Management for Youth in State Care: Consent, Oversight, and Policy Considerations
Sep 01, 2007; ... The use of psychotropic medications in youth with emotional disturbances in state custody is increasing and presents unique challenges concerning consent and oversight. We examine various means that state child welfare agencies use to provide consent for and oversight of psychotropic medications ...
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: Using Strength-Based Approaches to Enhance the Culture of Care in Residential and Day Treatment Education Environments
Sep 01, 2007; ... Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports model, first introduced into public schools, has been extended to alternative settings. This article highlights applying PBIS to day treatment and residential treatment education programs increasingly challenged to serve seriously emotionally ...
Reducing Transfers of Children in Family Foster Care Through Onsite Mental Health Interventions
Sep 01, 2007; ... This article describes a successful pilot project in New York City that effectively reduced the number of transfers or replacements of children in family foster care through the placement of mental health clinicians onsite at two foster care agencies. One of the more confounding ...
Racial Disparity in Minnesota's Child Protection System
Jul 01, 2007; ... Minnesota has been recognized by several studies as a state with a significant amount of racial disparity in its child protection system. This study, using 2001 data from Minnesota's Social Services Information Service, was conducted to determine at which of the six decision points in ...
Addressing the Impact of Foster Care on Biological Children and Their Families
Jul 01, 2007; ... This study explores from a dual perspective the impact of the fostering process on biological children in the home. Ten foster parents and their biological children were interviewed separately. The impact of foster care on the psychological, educational, and social well-being of biological ...
What Criteria Do Child Protective Services Investigators Use to Substantiate Exposure to Domestic Violence?
Jul 01, 2007; ... The primary purpose of this study is to determine whether child protective services investigators apply a recognizable set of criteria to substantiate batterers and victims of battering for exposing their children to domestic violence. Although domestic violence occurred in 35% of the 1,248 ...
Mothers' Strategies for Protecting Children from Batterers: The Perspectives of Battered Women Involved in Child Protective Services
Jul 01, 2007; ... During in-depth, individual interviews, seventeen battered women involved in the public child welfare system discussed the effects of domestic violence on their children, and their strategies for protecting and supporting them. Most mothers articulated the detrimental effects of domestic ...