Kristen Usher, Ashley Brizzo, Christine Leicht, Sharon Newburg-Rinn, Megan R Reynolds, Heather McCann, Jacquelyn Bertrand
{"title":"Child Welfare Policies and Practices Regarding Children with Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol and Other Drugs: An Exploratory Study.","authors":"Kristen Usher, Ashley Brizzo, Christine Leicht, Sharon Newburg-Rinn, Megan R Reynolds, Heather McCann, Jacquelyn Bertrand","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research indicates that there are more children with prenatal alcohol and other drug exposures in child welfare than in the general population. Using multiple forms of data from staff and caregivers from one urban agency, this exploratory study demonstrated opportunities to inform polices, practice, and data elements regarding this vulnerable group. Findings are discussed within the context of ensuring family preservation, equity and avoiding disproportional race/ethnicity within child welfare when identifying and caring for children with prenatal exposures.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"99 6","pages":"65-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10259365/pdf/nihms-1901952.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9629249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing delinquent youths: a reintegrative model for rehabilitation and a new role for the juvenile justice system.","authors":"G Bazemore, W C Terry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents logical, theoretical, and empirical arguments for a new rehabilitative agenda for juvenile justice, based on positive principles of youth development. It offers a critical examination of the dominant intervention paradigms within the juvenile justice system, compares the underlying theoretical and philosophical assumptions of a competency-based rehabilitative model with the deficit-based individual treatment approach, and highlights the practices and programs that will most fully support the positive development of young people in the juvenile justice system.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 5","pages":"665-716"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20248291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual activity and contraceptive use among children entering out-of-home care.","authors":"C Risley-Curtiss","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explored the prevalence of reported sexual activity of a cohort of children entering out-of-home care and the ability of selected factors to explain reported sexual activity and use or nonuse of contraceptives. It found that children as young as age 8 reported sexual activity, and that more than one-third of the children age 8 to 18 reported being sexually active. Of those who were sexually active, more than one-third were not using contraceptives. Using logistic regression, five variables are identified as having importance in explaining sexual activity. Two variables had some limited ability to explain contraceptive use. Implications of these findings are discussed and suggestions for policy and practice are made.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 4","pages":"475-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20163550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Outcomes for infants exposed in utero to illicit drugs.","authors":"P K Jaudes, E E Ekwo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The study reported here sought to determine whether substance-exposed infants who are maltreated have a higher risk of out-of-home placement than substance-exposed children who are not abused and rejected, as well as a higher risk of death than children in the general population. In a sample of 513 infants born at a Chicago medical center from 1985 through 1990, 480 (93.6%) had complete sociodemographic data available for analysis. Identifying data were used to search the Illinois death registry and a computerized central registry of child abuse reports. Both out-of-home placement and death were distinctly more likely if children had been exposed to drugs and maltreated. Such children should be closely followed.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 4","pages":"521-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20163552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shelters for runaway and homeless youths: capacity and occupancy.","authors":"J M Greene, C L Ringwalt, R Iachan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Data from a nationally representative sample of shelters for runaway and homeless youths (N = 160) were analyzed to determine shelter capacity, occupancy, and occupancy ratios. Analysis focused in particular on occupancy ratios by funding status, shelter size, metropolitan statistical area (MSA), season, and day of the week.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 4","pages":"549-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20161602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family empowerment: one outcome of cooperative preschool education.","authors":"K M Dunlap","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although longitudinal evaluations of academic preschools have consistently demonstrated significant and substantial long-term benefits for children, the effect of the preschool experience on parents who are required to participate has not been examined. This article reviews a qualitative investigation that explored family empowerment as one outcome of cooperative preschool education. The article highlights the personal growth and acquisition of skills that occurred during the midphase of the empowerment process.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 4","pages":"501-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20163548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing investigative decisions in child welfare: an exploratory use of intensive family preservation services.","authors":"E Walton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Investigative decisions in a child welfare agency were enhanced by the use of brief, intensive, family preservation services. Almost from the moment of referral, personnel worked with child protection investigators to assess the needs and resources of families in crisis and to effectuate viable management plans. Six months after the investigations, 69 randomly assigned families who received the experimental services were compared to the 65 families in the control group. Differences were noted in the number of cases opened, length of time the case was open, length of time the child was at home, and the families' satisfaction with the agency.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 3","pages":"447-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20078777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development and description of two new instruments for measuring the impact of coordinated social services for children.","authors":"R H Beinecke, J Leavey, P Mosley, M A Matava","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Boston Family Reunification Network provides two innovative services designed to help children return to their families as soon as possible. A team developed two new instruments to measure process and clinical outcomes of the initiatives. This article describes the instruments, the two-year development process, and the points considered during the instruments' development. Suggestions for other social welfare groups planning to create and implement outcome tools are included.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 3","pages":"379-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20078867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Troubles in Smurftown: youth gangs and moral visions on Guam.","authors":"S Schmitz, J C Christopher","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An explosive youth gang problem in U.S. Guam may derive from the changes in island traditionalism wrought by modern society. Island youths sense the erosion of the traditional culture's moral visions, but find modern Western individualism unpalatable as an alternative. Gang membership offers a third option, bestowing on youths a sense of honor, bravery, and solidarity lost from traditional society. Gang members must be viewed not as social deviants but as members of a culture that proposes moral visions and prescribes group behaviors for its membership.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 3","pages":"411-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20078870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Concrete strategies for sensitizing youth-serving agencies to the needs of gay, lesbian, and other sexual minority youths.","authors":"S Phillips, C McMillen, J Sparks, M Ueberle","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past few years, several authors have detailed the needs of gay and lesbian youths and the obstacles youth-serving agencies face in addressing their needs. How administrators and practitioners can make changes in agencies that are not adequately serving sexual minority youths has been unclear. This article uses the experiences of two youth-serving agencies to offer recommendations on agency philosophies concerning the social realities of sexual minority youths and on several ways of creating a safe, welcoming, and productive environment.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"76 3","pages":"393-409"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"1997-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20078868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}