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Past Projects List
Original Research
- State Child Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP)
- To increase awareness of accessibility, quality, continuity, and coordination of health care services for children in the child welfare system through national and local efforts in support of the Federal SCHIP program.
Goals of the project: (1) To understand and document the general state, county/tribal, and local SCHIP policies and practices; the state, county/tribal, and local SCHIP policies and practices focused on children in the child welfare system; and the state, county/tribal, and local child welfare policies and practices focused on health care coverage outreach. (2) To inform others (i.e., raise awareness of) what the current child welfare / health insurance outreach policies and practices of the five chosen states (California, Georgia, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Missouri), in order to model methods which other states may use to assess their state, county/tribal, and local policies and practices regarding the overlap of SCHIP and the child welfare population.
- Contact: Darren Fulmore, Ph.D., Research Associate, dfulmore@cwla.org
Organizational Support
- Juvenile Justice
- The Juvenile Justice Program, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, works to improve communication and cooperation between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and to improve the quality of programs in both systems that serve youth and their families. The evaluation of CWLA's Juvenile Justice Program will examine the degree to which the three-year program has facilitated the integration of public and private services directed to juvenile offenders who are also known to the child welfare system.
- Contact: Michele Livojevic-Davis, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation, mdavis@cwla.org
- Workforce Survey
- To analyze and address emerging challenges in the child welfare workforce, in partnership with the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) and the Alliance for Children and Families, CWLA conducted a workforce survey of its member agencies in 2000. The survey gathered data about the scope and nature of the problem, identified best practices in agencies that are addressing the problem successfully, prepared findings and recommendations for the field, and will provide a basis for future studies.
- Contact: Alicia Drais-Parrillo, PhD., Research Associate, adrais@cwla.org
- Workforce Survey results
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