Child Welfare最新文献

{"title":"How Many Families in Child Welfare Services Are Affected by Parental Substance Use Disorders? A Common Question that Remains Unanswered.","authors":"Kristen Seay","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Associated with extensive negative outcomes for children, parental substance use disorders are a major concern within the child welfare system. Obtaining actual prevalence rate data has been difficult, however, and there are no recent published reports on this issue. Using a systematic search, this paper examines: (1) Prevalence estimates of parental substance use disorders in the child welfare population; (2) the types of child welfare involvement for reported prevalence estimates; and (3) how prevalence information is being collected. Prevalence rates were found to have a wide range, from 3.9% to 79%, with regional prevalence estimates being higher than national estimates. Prevalence rates of parental substance use disorders varied by type of child welfare involvement of the family and method of data collection. This study points out the need for improvements in prevalence estimates in the United States and national data collection procedures to ensure that child welfare and substance abuse treatment systems are adequately responding to children and families with substance use disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"94 4","pages":"19-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4894838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140206353","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":"Partnering to Leverage Multiple Data Sources: Preliminary Findings from a Supportive Housing Impact Study.","authors":"Jessica Raithel,&nbsp;Miranda Yates,&nbsp;Amy Dworsky,&nbsp;Maryanne Schretzman,&nbsp;Whitney Welshimer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article presents preliminary findings from an impact study that drew upon administrative data collected by city agencies and data collected by a supportive housing program for young adults who are aging out of foster care, homeless, or at risk of homelessness. Participation in the program was associated with a reduction in shelter use and jail stays during the two years after program entry. The study demonstrates the benefits of collaboration and the possibilities of using administrative data from multiple public agencies to evaluate program impacts on young adult outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"94 1","pages":"73-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35829871","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":"Economic Well-Being and Independent Living in FosterYouth: Paving the Road to Effective Transitioning out of Care.","authors":"Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo,&nbsp;Gayle Davis,&nbsp;Terri Hipps","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using a mixed-methods methodological approach, the proposed study examines the associations between economic well-being and independent living experiences in foster youth. Quantitative data were collected from N = 294 in-care foster youth using the Casey Life Skills assessment (α = .79 to α = .95). Qualitative data were collected via focus groups with aged-out foster youth (N =15). Results provide important insights on youth's economic well-being, financial literacy, individual experiences regarding aging out of foster care and independent living. This study provides new insights into the complex dynamics of successfully transitioning out of foster care and the need for supporting economic well-being in foster youth to better prepare them to live independently and develop coping skills for the challenges they might experience once they leave the system.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"94 1","pages":"53-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35829867","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":"Integrated Solutions for Intertwined Challenges: A Statewide Collaboration in Supportive Housing for Child Welfare-Involved Families.","authors":"Anne F Farrell,&nbsp;Kellie G Randall,&nbsp;Preston A Britner,&nbsp;Betsy Cronin,&nbsp;S Kim Somaroo-Rodriguez,&nbsp;Lisa Hansen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper describes Connecticut's Supportive Housing for Families (SHF) program, which is one of five national sites comprising a federally- funded demonstration of housing and child welfare. Evaluations of supportive housing (SH) interventions are complicated by contextual factors that make it difficult to isolate their effects. 'Ihese and other challenges complicate efforts to conduct rigorous research and establish external validity, and to date, few studies examine the impact of SH interventions for child- welfare involved families. We describe retrospectively the development of SHF using. six stages of imple- mentation articulated within an implementation science framework, noting both the core components of the program and its expansion from a small pilot exploration, to a statewide initiative, and now to the center of a systems change effort with potential to influence national policy and implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"94 1","pages":"141-165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35829874","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":"Using Qualitative Data Mining for Practice Research in Child Welfare","authors":"Colleen Henry, Sarah Carnochan, M. Austin","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197518335.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197518335.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"In their daily practice, social service professionals routinely collect and record large quantities of data about client characteristics, practice interventions, and client outcomes (Epstein, 2002, 2009). While documentation of service activities are not new to child welfare (CW), over the last 30 years, federal legislation, including the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act (P.L. 96-272) and the Adoption and Safe Families Act (P.L. 105-89), has promoted increased documentation in CW. Consequently, administrative CW data has proliferated and administrative data systems (ADS) have made these data more accessible to researchers.To date, the majority of studies using administrative CW data have focused on the quantitative categorical data stored in ADS (see Conn et al., 2013; Putnam-Hornstein & Needell, 2011). Quantitative data help researchers and CW administrators identify rates of reported and substantiated child maltreatment, detect corresponding risk factors, or categorize service responses. The mining of these data teaches us about the kinds of maltreatment, placements, and services children referred to CW systems experience; identifies the frequency of these experiences; and can be used to make predictions about which children will return home and which will remain in care. However, these quantitative data tell us little about how CW workers define maltreatment, why children referred to CW systems are placed in specific settings, or how children and families engage in services. These latter questions are better answered through the mining and analysis of qualitative data stored in ADS.Qualitative Data-Mining (QDM), the mining of the narrative text contained in documents stored in ADS (e.g., risk assessments, investigative narratives, court reports, and contact notes), provides CW researchers with a unique opportunity to use existing data to examine CW practice (Epstein, 2002, 2009). Use of QDM to improve CW has received limited attention (Epstein, 2002; Tice, 1998), as few CW studies have focused on the qualitative data stored in CW ADS or described how qualitative data is used by CW researchers (for exceptions see Coohey, 2007; Cordero, 2004; Cross, Koh, Rolock, & Eblen-Manning, 2013; Henry, 2014). This paper seeks to fill this gap by describing how researchers can use QDM techniques to create rich databases for qualitative CW research and answer unique questions about CW clients and practice. In a seven-step guide, the paper summarizes QDM strategies and methods, and reports on the work of the Child Welfare Qualitative Data-Mining (CWQDM) Project to illustrate these methods and strategies. The paper concludes with a discussion of how QDM can be used to enhance CW practice, research, and education.Project BackgroundThe CWQDM Project developed in the context of a longstanding practice- research partnership between a university-based research center and a regional social services consortium involving the directors of 11 county social serv","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"93 1","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61546911","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":"Efficacy of Blended Preservice Training for Resource Parents.","authors":"Lee White,&nbsp;Richard Delaney,&nbsp;Caesar Pacifici,&nbsp;Carol Nelson,&nbsp;Josh Whitkin,&nbsp;Maureen Lovejoy,&nbsp;Betsy Keefer Smalley","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To evaluate a new way of meeting the growing demand for training prospective resource parents, our study compared the efficacy of a blended online and in-person approach with a traditional classroom-only approach. Findings based on a sample of 111 resource parent prospects showed significantly greater gains in knowledge from pre- to posttest for the blended approach over the classroom-only approach. The blended approach also produced dramatically lower dropout rates during preservice training. Both groups made significant gains in parenting awareness from pre to post, but those gains were greater for the classroom-only approach. Post hoc analyses examined this finding more closely. Satisfaction with training was comparably high for both groups. Gains in knowledge and awareness were sustained at a 3-month follow-up assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"93 6","pages":"45-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5471628/pdf/nihms862968.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35098794","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":"Risk of early sexual initiation and pregnancy among youth reported to the child welfare system.","authors":"Ellen Wilson,&nbsp;Cecilia Casanueva,&nbsp;Keith R Smith,&nbsp;Helen Koo,&nbsp;Stephen J Tueller,&nbsp;Mary Bruce Webb","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study found that youth involved with the child welfare system have high rates of sexual risk behaviors and outcomes, including forced sex, early age at first sex, low contraceptive use, and pregnancy, which are more than double those of adolescents from the general population. Caseworkers may need training in how to address sexual risk factors and may need to support caregivers in addressing these issues with their children. Findings highlight the importance for case-workers, caregivers, and others to address the sexual and reproductive health needs of maltreated youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"93 1","pages":"127-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33351167","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":"What is child andadolescent well-being?: you are the sum total of everything.","authors":"Gerald P Mallon","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"93 1","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33351241","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":"Evaluation of Smoke-free Foster Care Education for Foster and Adoptive Caregivers.","authors":"Cam Escoffery,&nbsp;Michelle C Kegler,&nbsp;Lucja Bundy,&nbsp;Debbie Yembra,&nbsp;Shadé Owolabi,&nbsp;Dianne Kelley,&nbsp;Dorothy Mabry","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Only half of the states in the U.S. mandate that foster homes have a smoking ban. It is beneficial to promote training about the impacts of exposure to secondhand smoke to foster caregivers. This article presents the evaluation of a training delivered to foster and adoptive parents in Georgia. The topics with highest values learned were: 5 steps to creating a smoke-free home, benefits of a smoke-free home, dangers of secondhand smoke, and thirdhand smoke.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"93 5","pages":"105-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727377/pdf/nihms924250.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"35664305","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":"Child maltreatment entrenched by poverty: how financial need is linked to poorer outcomes in family preservation.","authors":"Jody Hearn Escaravage","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This cross-sectional secondary data analysis examined the ecological factors influencing the outcomes of families receiving services from a local department of social services to address child maltreatment risk and incidence. The results indicated that families that experienced repeated maltreatment also experienced greater poverty and material need than families with more successful outcomes. This study highlights the responsibility of the child welfare system to address deep-seated poverty issues of families experiencing child maltreatment risk and incidence.</p>","PeriodicalId":9796,"journal":{"name":"Child Welfare","volume":"93 1","pages":"79-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33351165","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}