Child Welfare

A Strategy for Outcome-based Accountability for School-based and School-linked Prevention and Early Intervention Programs

Choice, P.
Doyle, S.
Nikolakopoulos, E
Austin, M.J.
2000

No abstract is available for this publication.

A Review of Managed Care as a Tool for Child Welfare Reform

Embry, R.
Buddenhagen, P.
Goldberg, S.
DuBrow, A.
Bolles, S.
Kramer, K.
1998

No abstract is available for this publication.

Inter-agency Collaboration in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health Systems

Prince, J.
Austin, M.J.
2008

While most children living in foster care experience emotional disturbance as a result of their maltreatment or out-of-home placement, most do not receive needed mental health assistance that can prevent a variety of negative outcomes. Child welfare services related to placement prevention, treatment foster care, and group care provide unique opportunities for promoting inter-agency collaboration with mental health services. In order to address more effectively the needs of families utilizing both service systems, this analysis focuses on the factors that enhance or impede child welfare...

The Challenges to Promoting Collaboration between Child Protection Services Workers and Court Professionals: An Exploratory Study of Case Records

Han, M.
Carnochan, S.
Austin, M.J.
2008

In juvenile dependency proceedings, the protection of children depends upon the collaboration between professionals in the child welfare and court systems. Since there is little empirical research on such collaborations, this exploratory study sought to identify factors associated with the difficulties encountered in these professional relationships through an analysis of case records. The data were extracted from 111 cases in seven Northern California counties. Using a logistic regression it was found that the short tenure of court professionals is significantly associated with the...

Re-entering foster care: Trends, evidence, and implications

Kimberlin, S.E.
Anthony, E.K.
Austin, M.J.
2009

The child welfare system strives to balance protecting the safety and well-being of abused and neglected children with preserving families whenever possible. When children must be removed from their homes and placed in foster care, family reunification is the preferred child welfare strategy. Unfortunately, not all reunifications are successful, and a significant number of children re-enter foster care each year. Foster care re-entry represents a failure of permanency that has potentially serious negative effects on children. Thus the child welfare system must work to reduce and...

Reducing child poverty by promoting child well-being: Identifying best practices in a time of great need

Anthony, E.K.
King, B.
Austin, M.J.
2011

Child poverty in the United States persists despite a range of social services designed to reduce poverty rates and improve the economic self-sufficiency of families. The economic downturns resulting in job losses and the housing crisis have converged to create a new group of families who were managing to remain out of poverty prior to the recession but are now slipping into poverty, putting additional strain on services. In light of these pressing issues, this article synthesizes the literature examining child poverty to take a long-range view of the relationship between economic strain,...

Managed care and child welfare: Challenges to implementation

Embry, R.
Buddenhagen, P.
Bolles, S.
2000

There is increasing interest in the application of managed care principles to the management of child welfare services. Interest to date has focused on application of these management tools to child welfare populations in the most costly segments of out-of-home care. This article is based on a review of the managed care evaluation literature and information gathered from child welfare administrators in California. The authors argue that there is limited empirical support for the wholesale adoption of managed care principles to child welfare and numerous reasons for concern including a lack...

Early detection of prenatal substance exposure and the role of child welfare

Anthony, E.K.
Austin, M.J.
Cormier, D.R.
2010

Substance use during pregnancy is a public health concern that has potential short- and long-term effects for infants and young children. Ongoing parental substance abuse and the home environment have significant consequences for infant and child development. Pregnancy may be an ideal time to address maternal substance abuse; however, early detection of prenatal substance use is complicated by a number of political/legal, economic, and social/attitudinal barriers. Addressing the needs of substance-exposed infants requires coordination of prevention (education and screening) and early...

Educational Services for Children in Foster Care: Challenges and Opportunities.

Stone, S.
D'andrade, A.
Austin, M.J.
2008

Most literature on the education of foster youth focuses on their individual outcomes and characteristics. A small body of literature documents a lack of collaboration between the child welfare and education systems. This study explores commonalities and differences in perspectives between child welfare and education system stakeholders. It draws on findings from a multi-county exploratory study on educational services for foster youth. The findings in this study identify several systemic barriers including placement instability within the child welfare system, limited financial resources...

Assessing the potential for qualitative data mining in practice-based child welfare research

Carnochan, S.
Jacobs, L.
Austin, M.J.
2015

The multifaceted, dynamic nature of child welfare interventions and the demand for evidence-informed practice calls for an array of practice-based research tools. This analysis examines the use of qualitative data mining related to narrative case record data to conduct practice-based research in child welfare. It includes a structured literature review, and case study results examining 1) qualitative data mining experiences in child welfare agencies and 2) the utility of case records as data sources. It concludes with a discussion of challenges posed by qualitative data mining and the...