Vol. 97, No. 4 From the Editor: Let’s Stop the Inhumane Practice of Separating Children From Their Families Hearing the Voices of Young Adult Adoptees: Perspectives on Adoption Agency Practice Training Strategies in Child Welfare and their Association with Certification Outcomes A Systems Approach to Child Death Review A Decade in Review of Trends in Social Work Literature: The Link between Poverty and Child Maltreatment in the United States 30 Days to Family®: Confirming Theoretical and Actual Outcomes Vol. 97, No. 3 From the Editor: The Career-Long Benefits of Supervisory Wisdom Culture and Emotional Well-Being in Adolescents who are American Indian/Alaska Native: A Review of Current Literature Relationships between the Working Alliance, Engagement in Services, and Barriers to Treatment for Female Caregivers with Depression An Integrative Model for Taming the Storm: Casework Supervision in Child Protection Services Retention of Child Welfare Caseworkers: The Wisdom of Supervisors Use of Technology to Facilitate Practice Improvement in Trauma-Informed Child Welfare Systems Social Inclusion Model: An Adolescent Parents Intervention Case Study for Measuring Social Vol. 97, No. 2 From the Editor: Promoting Well-Being: The Importance of Compassionate Siblings, Caring Foster Parents, Supportive Peers, and Loving Grandparents in the Lives of Children and Youth Victim Narratives of Sibling Emotional Abuse The State of Evaluations of Campus-Based Support Programs Serving Foster Care Alumni in Higher Education Foster Parent Skills and Dilemmas: A Qualitative Study Kinship Care for Children who are American Indian/Alaska Native: State of the Evidence School-aged Children Living in Grandfamilies: Grandparent Caregiver Confidence in Community Resources Matters Vol. 97, No. 1 From the Editor: The Perils of Research Misuse — and the Importance of IRBs Attachment Theory, Supervision, and Turnover in Child Welfare Formal and Informal Social Support and Academic Achievement among College Students with Unstable Childhood Experiences Psychological Maltreatment: The Response of Quebec Child Protection Services Family Earnings and Transfer Income among Families Involved with Child Welfare Evaluation in Multiple Sites of the Safe Babies Court Team Approach A Grounded Theory Study of Organizational Readiness for Change in Public Child Welfare: Developing a Theoretical Model An Exploratory Study of Prospective Foster Parents’ Experiences during the Licensing Process Vol. 96, No. 5 & No. 6 Special Foreword: The Intersection of Immigration and Child Welfare State Immigration Enforcement Policies and Material Hardship for Immigrant Families Detached and Afraid: U.S. Immigration Policy and the Practice of Forcibly Separating Parents and Young Children at the Border Unraveling Disparities in Child Neglect Risk between Hispanics who are Immigrants and those Born in the United States: A Social-Ecological Approach Using Structural Equation Modeling Parental Detention and Deportation in Child Welfare Cases Promising Practices and Policies to Support Grandfamilies that Include Immigrants Working across Borders: Effective Permanency Practices at the Intersection of Child Welfare and Immigration A Pathway to Permanency: Collaborating for the Futures of Children who are Immigrants in the Child Welfare System Exploring the Needs of Children and Families who are Immigrants and Involved in Child Welfare: Using a Title IV-E Learning Community Model Supporting Youth at the Intersection of Immigration and Child Welfare Systems Outcomes for Youth Served by the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor Foster Care Program: A Pilot Study Well-Being and Permanency: The Relevance of Child Welfare Principles for Children Who are Unaccompanied Immigrants Vol. 96, No. 4 From the Editor: Stepping Out and Stepping In—Learning to Negotiate the Role of Parenting an Adult with Disabilities Invisible Parents: Foster Home Licensing Transparency on State-Level Websites Fostering the Initiation of Discretionary Psychotropic Medication Reviews by Child Welfare Caseworkers Implications for Practice: Risks to Youth in Boomtowns Examination of the Influence of Court Disposition Status (Under Investigation, Founded) on Pre-Intervention Assessment Results in Child Protective Services Referrals Parental Supports for Parents with Disabilities: The Importance of Informal Supports Building Effective Child Welfare-Early Care & Education Inter-Agency Partnerships: Lessons from Research Vol. 96, No. 3 From the Editor: Thriving Rather than Tweeting The Relationship between State Supports and Post-Secondary Enrollment among Youth Aging Out of Foster Care: An Analysis of the National Youth in Transition Database Social Support among Parents of Children with ADHD in Vietnam: Psychometric Properties of the Family Support Scale The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act: Knowledge of Health Care and Legal Professionals Optimizing Knowledge of Maternal and Non-maternal Risk Factors in Child Maltreatment Investigations: The Utility of Administrative Data Effect of Mental Health Treatment, Juvenile Justice Involvement, and Child Welfare Effectiveness on Severity of Mental Health Problems The Impacts of Domestic Violence on Children: Perspectives from Women in Malaysia who Experience Abuse Vol. 96, Nos. 1 & 2 From the Editor: Gay and No Place to Go, Redux Special Foreword: It is Time to Start Counting Kids Who are LGBTQ in Child Welfare Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative: Experiences and Outcomes of Youth who are LGBTQ Creating Safer Spaces for Youth who are LGBTQ in Broward County, Florida: Collecting SOGIE Data for Life-Coaching Services Strengthening Family Connections and Support for Youth in Foster Care who Identify as LGBTQ: Findings from the PII-RISE Evaluation Gender Diversity and Child Welfare Research: Empirical Report and Implications of the Los Angeles County Foster Youth Study ‘Because We’re Fighting to Be Ourselves’: Voices from Former Foster Youth who are Transgender and Gender Expansive Queering the Question: Using Survey Marginalia to Capture Gender Fluidity in Housing and Child Welfare Reversing Erasure of Youth and Young Adults Who are LGBTQ and Access Homelessness Services: Asking about Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Pronouns Child Welfare Systems and LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: Gender Segregation, Instability, and Intersectionality Out of the System and onto the Streets: LGBTQ-Identified Youth Experiencing Homelessness with Past Child Welfare System Involvement Developing Relationship-Building Tools for Foster Families Caring for Teens who are LGBTQ2S Yes We Can Allegheny: Implementing SOGIE Inclusive System Improvements in Child Welfare Strengthening the Workforce to Support Youth in Foster Care who Identify as LGBTQ+ through Increasing LGBTQ+ Competency: Trainers’ Experience with Bias Vol. 95, No. 6 From the Editor: In the Caring Embrace of Parental Love Always Together? Predictors and Outcomes of Sibling Co-Placement in Foster Care Delinquency, Anger, and Parental Warmth: An Analysis of Youth who are Minorities and Living in Extreme Poverty The First Two Years out of Residential Care in South Africa: A Critical Period for Care-Leaving Services Longitudinal Evaluation of ‘Pathways to Safety’: A Child Maltreatment Prevention Program in The Atlas Project: Integrating Trauma-Informed Practice into Child Welfare and Mental Health Settings Vol. 95, No. 5 From the Editor: Connections and Relationships throughout Life Evaluating Prevention: Communities NOW: Connecting for Kids Improving Preparation for Foster Care: Developing a Child-Friendly Training Curriculum for Families who Foster Factors Affecting Perceptions of Self-Value among Employees of Child Welfare Agencies Partnership for Multimethod Evaluation in Child Welfare: Title IV-E Waiver Demonstration Program Prevalence of Chronic Illness among Youth with DSM-IV-TR Axis I Diagnoses at a Large Mental Health Agency in Northeast Ohio Vol 95, No. 4 From the Editor: The Apple Tree Has Many Healthy Apples: Kinship Caregiving Introduction: Kinship Care Policy and Practice Using Family Group Decision-Making to Assist Informal Kinship Families Using Kinship Navigation Services to Support the Family Resource Needs, Caregiver Self-Efficacy, and Placement Stability of Children in Informal and Formal Kinship Care Supporting Kinship Caregivers: Examining the Impact of a Title IV-E Waiver Kinship Supports Intervention Protective Factors as Mediators and Moderators of Risk Effects on Perceptions of Child Well-Being in Kinship Care New Directions for Kinship Care Policy and Practice: A Position Paper from the Kinship Summit at Albany, New York, September 2016 Vol 95, No. 3 From the Editor: The Apple Tree Has Many Healthy Apples: Kinship Caregiving Introduction: Kinship Care Policy and Practice Health and Well-Being of Children in Kinship Care: Findings from the National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care The Relationship between Kinship Diversion and Child Behavior Problems Placement Stability of Children in Informal Kinship Care: Age, Poverty, and Involvement in the Child A Kinship Navigator Program: A Comprehensive Approach to Support Private and Voluntary Kinship Caregivers Vol. 95, No. 2 From the Editor: Connections and Relationships throughout Life Once Upon a Time: Lessons Learned from the Benefits of Parent-Child Mother Goose Theories on Child Protection Work with Parents: A Narrative Review of the Literature From Classroom to Caseload: Transition Experiences of Frontline Child Welfare Workers Sense of Community through Supportive Housing among Foster Care Alumni Training and Preparation for Caregiving of Older Foster Youth: Perspectives of Foster Parents Vol. 95, No. 1 From the Editor: Real Scholarship on Real-World Issues for America’s Children, Youth, and Families The Family Unification Program (FUP): A Housing Option for Former Foster Youth Adoption Policy and the Well-Being of Adopted Children in the United States Child Sexual Abuse and the Impact of Rurality on Foster Care Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis Psychological Maltreatment, the Under-Recognized Violence Against Children: A New Portrait from Quebec Vol. 94, No. 6 From the Editor: It’s Still All About Families Assessing the Needs of Reunified Families from Foster Care: A Parent Perspective Transition-Age Foster Youth and Caregiver Perceptions of Self-Sufficiency Family Finding Project: Results from a One-Year Program Evaluation Principled Quality Assurance in Child Welfare: A New Perspective Resources, Race, and Placement Frequency: An Analysis of Child Well-Being Vol. 94, No. 5 Promising Results for Cross-Systems Collaborative Efforts to Meet the Needs of Families Impacted by Substance Use Predictors of Substance Abuse Assessment and Treatment Completion for Parents Involved with Child Welfare: Child Welfare: One State’s Experience in Matching across Systems Examining the Relationships between Family Drug Court Program Compliance and Child Welfare Outcomes Changes in Adult, Child, and Family Functioning among Participants in a Family Treatment Drug Court Making It Work Without a Family Drug Court: Connecticut’s Approach to Parental Substance Abuse in the Child Welfare System Peer Mentoring in Child Welfare: A Motivational Framework Enhancing Family Protective Factors in Residential Treatment for Substance Use Disorders An Integrated Intervention to Address the Comorbid Needs of Families Referred to Child Welfare for Substance Use Disorders and Child Neglect: FAIR Pilot Outcomes Effects of Intensive Family Preservation Services in Rural Tennessee on Parental Hopefulness with Families Affected by Substance Use Vol. 94, No. 4 How Many Families in Child Welfare Services Are Affected by Parental Substance Use Disorders? A Common Question that Remains Unanswered Mental Health Disorders among Children within Child Welfare who have Prenatal Substance Exposure: Rural vs. Urban Populations Co-Occurrence of Parental Substance Abuse and Child Serious Emotional Disturbance: Understanding Multiple Pathways to Improve Child and Family Outcomes Practice-Informed Approaches to Addressing Substance Abuse and Trauma Exposure in Urban Native Families Involved with Child Welfare Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams in Rural Appalachia: Implementation and Outcomes Effects of a Rural Family Drug Treatment Court Collaborative on Child Welfare Outcomes: Comparison Using Propensity Score Analysis Family-Based Recovery: An Innovative In-Home Substance Abuse Treatment Model for Families with Young Children Rethinking Child Welfare to Keep Families Safe and Together: Effective Housing-Based Supports to Reduce Child Trauma, Maltreatment Recidivism, and Re-Entry to Foster Care New Approaches for Working with Children and Families Involved in Family Treatment Drug Courts: Findings from the Children Affected by Methamphetamine Program Vol. 94, Nos. 2 & 3 Introduction Special Foreword: Making Research Work in Child Welfare: Overcoming Challenges Strategies to Improve the Use and Usefulness of Research in Child Welfare Innovation and the Use of Research Evidence in Youth-Serving Systems: A Mixed-Methods Study From a Provider’s Perspective: Integrating Evidence-Based Practice into the Culture of a Social Service Organization Selecting an Evidence-Based Practice in Child Welfare: Challenges and Steps to Identifying a Good Fit Co-Creating the Conditions to Sustain the Use of Research Evidence in Public Child Welfare Research Evidence Use in the Child Welfare System Exploring the Integration of Systems and Social Sciences to Study Evidence Use among Child Welfare Policy-makers Learning to Listen and Listening to Learn: Recursive Information Flow to Build Relationships and Improve Practice Tensions and Opportunities: Building Meaningful Partnerships Between Child Welfare Decision-makers and Evaluators Benefits of Embedding Research into Practice: An Agency-University Collaboration Strategies for Strengthening the Utility of Research in Supportive Housing-Child Welfare Partnerships From Novel to Empirical: Developing CommunityBased Programs into Research-Ready Programs Engaging the Child Welfare Community in Examining the Use of Research Evidence Vol. 94, No. 1 Introduction Special Foreword Factors Influencing Risk of Homelessness among Youth in Transition from Foster Care in Oklahoma: Implications for Reforming Independent Living Services and Opportunities Housing Trajectories for Youth Transitioning from Foster Care: Gender Differences from 2010–2014 Economic Well-Being and Independent Living in Foster Youth: Paving the Road to Effective Transitioning out of Care Partnering to Leverage Multiple Data Sources: Preliminary Findings from a Supportive Housing Impact Study Physically Hazardous Housing and Risk for Child Protective Services Involvement Poverty, Homelessness, and Family Break-Up Housing Matters for Families: Promising Practices from Child Welfare Agencies Integrated Solutions for Intertwined Challenges: A Statewide Collaboration in Supportive Housing for Child Welfare-Involved Families The Family Unification Program: A Randomized-Controlled Trial of Housing Stability Family Stability and Child Welfare Involvement among Families Served in Permanent Supportive Housing Vol. 93, No. 6 Using Qualitative Data-Mining for Practice Research in Child Welfare Implementing ASFA with Vulnerable African American Families: A Community Capacity Approach Efficacy of Blended Preservice Training for Resource Parents Parental Disability in Child Welfare Systems and Dependency Courts: Preliminary Research on the Prevalence of the Population Social Supports in the Lives of Child Welfare-Involved Families Understanding Correlates of Higher Educational Attainment among Foster Care Youths Exploring Cyberbullying among Primary Children in Relation to Social Support, Loneliness, Self-Efficacy, and Well-Being Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) for Adopted Children Receiving Therapy in an Outpatient Setting Marathon County Community Response: Voluntary Services for Families Screened out of Child Protective Services Building Learning Organizations within Public Child Welfare Agencies through Internal Research Capacity Evaluation of Smoke-free Foster Care Education for Foster and Adoptive Caregivers Vol. 93, No. 4 The Treehouse Community: An Innovative Intergenerational Model for Supporting Youth Who Have Experienced Foster Care Therapeutic Visiting in Treatment Foster Care Kinship Care and Undocumented Latino Children in the Texas Foster Care System: Navigating the Child Welfare-Immigration Crossroads Status Offenders and Delinquent Youth: Actual or Artificial Taxonomy Young Offender Sexual Abuse Cases Under Protection Investigation: Are Sibling Cases Any Different? Vol. 93, No. 3 Need for Trauma-Informed Care Within the Foster Care System: A Policy Issue Family Engagement in “Voluntary” Child Welfare Services: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Families under Differential Response Referrals in California Risk Management in Child Protective Services: A Balanced Scorecard Approach The Caregiver-Reported Value of Participation in a Kinship Support Center Measuring Social Support among Kinship Caregivers: Confirming the Factor Structure of the Family Support Scale When Rights Collide: A Critique of the Adoption and Safe Families Act from a Justice Perspective Vol. 93, No. 2 Homeless Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Youth in New York City: Insights from the Field Children and Youth with Disabilities in the Child Welfare System: An Overview Leveraging the Experiences of Foster Care Alumni: A Mixed-Method Model for Organizing Facilitating Ethical Decisions in Practice: The Professionalization Efforts of One Title IV-E Collaboration Collaborative Relationships and Improved Service Coordination among Child Welfare and Early Childhood Systems Vol. 93, No. 1 Mental Health Care of Families Affected by the Child Welfare System The Scottish Children’s Panels as a Catalyst for Civic Engagement and Child Well-Being Child Maltreatment Entrenched by Poverty: How Financial Need is Linked to Poorer Outcomes in Family Preservation Former Foster Youth’s Perspectives on Independent Living Preparation Six Months After Discharge Risk of Early Sexual Initiation and Pregnancy Among Youth Reported to the Child Welfare System Differential Effects of Single and Double Parental Death on Child Emotional Functioning and Daily Life in South Africa Vol. 92, No. 6 The Path from Process to Outcomes: A Cross-Site Evaluation of 24 Family Connection Grantee Projects Measuring the Impact of Enhanced Kinship Navigator Services for Informal Kinship Caregivers Using an Experimental Design Family Team Conferencing: Results and Implications from an Experimental Study in Florida All in the Family: Variations in the Use of Family Meetings in Child Welfare Using Multi-Informed Fidelity Data to Determine the Impact of a Neutral Child Welfare Facilitator for Permanency Decision Teams Residential Family Treatment for Parents with Substance Use Disorders who are Involved with Child Welfare: Two Perspectives on Program Design, Collaboration, and Sustainability Vol. 92, No. 5 Vol. 90, No. 5 Vol. 90, No. 3 Vol. 89, No. 5 – Special Issue: Convention on the Rights of the Child Vol. 89, No. 4 Vol. 89, No. 3 Vol. 89, No. 2 Vol. 89, No. 1 Vol. 88, No. 6 Vol. 88, No. 5 – Special Issue: Strengthening the Child Welfare Workforce: Promoting Recruitment and Retention: Vol. 88, No. 4: Vol. 88, No. 3: Vol. 88, No. 2: Vol. 88, No. 1 – Special Issue: Mental Health Practice Guidelines for Child Welfare: Context for Reform Vol. 87, No. 6 Vol. 87, No. 5 Vol. 87, No. 4 Vol. 87, No. 3 Vol. 87, No. 2 Special Issue: Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare PART II: PRACTICE METHODS TO REDUCE RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY AND DISPARTY OF OUTCOMES Vol. 87, No. 1 Vol. 86, No. 6 Vol. 86, No. 5 Special Issue: Effectively Addressing Mental Health Issues in Child Welfare Practice Vol. 86, No. 4 Vol. 86, No. 3 Vol. 86, No. 2 Special Issue: Adoption Vol. 86, No. 1 Vol. 85, No. 6 Vol. 85, No. 5 Vol. 85, No. 4
Krystal K. Cashen, Dominique K. Altamari, Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy
Mi Jin Choi, Carla S. Stover and Pamela E. Aeppel
Noel Hengelbrok, Scott Modell, Tom Cheetham and James M. Nyce
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Anne J. Atkinson
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Special Issue: The Intersection of Immigration and Child Welfare
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Benjamin J. Roth, Thomas M. Crea, Jayshree Jani, Dawnya Underwood, Robert G. Hasson III, Kerri Evans, Michael Zuch, and Emily Hornung
Michelle Johnson-Motoyama and Wei Wu
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Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen and Dawn Konrady
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Adam Avrushin and Maria Vidal de Haymes
Andrew I. Repp and Jennifer M. Geiger
Heather J. Walter and David R. DeMaso
Thomasine Heitkamp and Roni Mayzer
Brad Donohue, Christopher P. Plant, Kimberly A. Barchard, Jesse Scott and Marina Galante
Elizabeth Lightfoot, Traci LaLiberte and Minhae Cho
Sacha Klein and Susan M. Jekielek
Toni Terling Watt, Seoyoun Kim and Kaytlin Garrison
Nam-Phuong Hoang
Ira J. Chasnoff, Gail Barber, Jody Brook and Becci A. Akin
Sheridan Miyamoto, Patrick S. Romano, Emily Putnam-Hornstein, Holly Thurston, Madan Dharmar and Jill G. Joseph
Jeremiah W. Jaggers, Eprise Armstrong Richardson and James A. Hall
Mariny Abdul Ghani
Special Issue: Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/ Expression, and Child Welfare
Tracey Feild
Jeffrey M. Poirier, Sandy Wilkie, Kristin Sepulveda and Tania Uruchima
Marissa L. Greif-Hackett and Sue Gallagher
Jaymie Lorthridge, Marneena Evans, Leanne Heaton, Andrea Stevens and Lisa Phillips
Soon Kyu Choi and Bianca D. M. Wilson
Sarah Mountz, Moshoula Capous-Desyllas and Elizabeth Pourciau
Amy Castro Baker, Kel Kroehle, Henisha Patel and Carrie Jacobs
Jama Shelton, Jeffrey M. Poirier, Coco Wheeler and Alex Abramovich
Brandon Andrew Robinson
Nicholas Forge, Robin Hartinger-Saunders, Eric Wright and Erin Ruel
Amy M. Salazar, Kristin J. McCowan, Martie L. Skinner, Bailey R. Noell, Jessica M. Colito, Kevin P. Haggerty and Susan E. Barkan
Micki Washburn, Megan Good, Shauna Lucadamo, Kristen Weber, Bill Bettencourt and Alan J. Dettlaff
Angela Weeks, Danielle Altman, Andrea Stevens, Jaymie Lorthridge and Leanne Heaton
Carolyn E. Seale and Gissele Damiani-Taraba
Jeremiah W. Jaggers, Sara Tomek, Lisa M. Hooper, Missy T. Malone and Wesley T. Church, II
Adrian Van Breda
Monterey County, California
Ignacio Navarro, Zuleima L. Arevalo and Martha J. Tweed
Erika Tullberg, Bonnie Kerker, Nawal Muradwij and Glenn Saxe
Lara Bruce, Megan Lane and Elizabeth Ann Deaton Wacker
Bethany Strauss and Leah Wasburn-Moses
Floyd Quinn
James A. Hall, Teresa M. Imburgia, Kori R. Bloomquist, Jangmin Kim, Barbara J. Pierce, Jeremiah W. Jaggers, Eprise Armstrong-Richardson, Marie Danh and Devon J. Hensel
Julie M. Merker, Jacqueline Dolata, Earl Pike, Elizabeth Newman, Debra Rex and Ashwini R. Sehgal
Special Issue: Kinship Care and Child Welfare: New Directions for Policy and Practice (Second of Two Issues)
Mark F. Testa
Leonard H. Feldman
Michele Cranwell Schmidt and Julie Treinen
Cailin Wheeler and Justin Vollet
Ramona W. Denby, Mark F. Testa, Keith A. Alford, Chad L. Cross and Jesse A. Brinson
Special Issue: Kinship Care and Child Welfare: New Directions for Policy and Practice (First of Two Issues)
Mark F. Testa
Matthew D. Bramlett, Laura F. Radel and Kirby Chow
Qi Wu
Welfare System
Eunju Lee, Mi Jin Choi, Yeonggeul Lee and Catherine Kramer
Berenice R. Rushovich, Kantahyanee W. Murray, Kristen Woodruff and Pamela Clarkson Freeman
Daphne S. Ling, Gillian Tibbetts and Elaine Scharfe
George Karpetis
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Bradley Forenza and David T. Lardier
Elizabeth J. Greeno, Mathew C. Uretsky, Bethany R. Lee, Haksoon Ahn and Deborah S. Harburger
Amy Dworsky, M. Robin Dion, Rebecca Kleinman and Jackie Kauff
Ashley J. Provencher, Nicholas E. Kahn and Mary Eschelbach Hansen
Austin Griffiths, April L. Murphy and Whitney Harper
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Marina Lalayants, Laura Montero, Laura S. Abrams and Susanna R. Curry
Liat Shklarski, Vincent P. Madera, Katricia Bennett and Kimberley Marcial
Andrew Koster and Gissele Damiani-Taraba
Jeremiah W. Jaggers, Eprise Armstrong Richardson, Matthew C. Aalsma and James A. Hall
Kimberly Dennis, Michael S. Rodi, Gregory Robinson, Kenneth DeCerchio, Nancy K. Young, Sidney L. Gardner, Elaine Stedt and Marianna Corona
Dorian E. Traube, Amy S. He, Limei Zhu, Christine Scalise and Tyrone Richardson
Holly Child and Dara McIntyre
Merith Cosden and Lauren M. Koch
Jane Ungemack, Marilou Giovannucci, Samuel Moy, Karen Ohrenberger, Thomas DeMatteo and Staceyann Smith
Anna Rockhill, Carrie J. Furrer and Thuan M. Duong
Joan E. Zweben, Yael Moses, Judith B. Cohen, Genny Price, William Chapman and Joanna Lamb
Lisa Saldana
Edwina Chappell, Kathryn Sielbeck-Mathes, Randall Reiserer, Hannah Wohltjen, Wendy Shuran and Elizabeth McInerney
Kristen Seay
Ira J. Chasnoff, Erin Telford, Anne M.Wells and Lauren King
Becci A. Akin, Jody Brook and Margaret H. Lloyd
Nancy M. Lucero and Marian Bussey
Martin T. Hall, Ruth A. Huebner, Jeanelle S. Sears, Lynn Posze, Tina Willauer and Janell Oliver
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Special Issue: Improving the Use and Usefulness of Research Evidence
Joe Bock
Kimberly DuMont and Christine James-Brown
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Lawrence A. Palinkas, Qiaobing Wu, Dahlia Fuentes, Megan Finno-Velasquez, Ian W. Holloway, Antonio Garcia and Patricia Chamberlain
Miranda Yates, Jennifer Nix, Jennifer Schurer Coldiron and Laurie Williams
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Allison Metz and Leah Bartley
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Thomas I. Mackie, R. Christopher Sheldrick, Justeen Hyde and Laurel K. Leslie
Anita M. Larson and Sara E. Langworthy
Emily Fisher, Jacquelyn Spangler and Ruth Huebner
Michael A. Nunno, Elliott G. Smith, William R. Martin and Sharon Butcher
Miriam J. Landsman and Mitchell Rosenwald
Rebecca J. Macy, Dania M. Ermentrout, Phillip H. Redmond, Jr., Cindy Fraga Rizo and McLean D. Pollock
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Special Issue: Housing, Homelessness, and Economic Security
Nan Roman
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Robert G. Hasson III, Andrew D. Reynolds and Thomas M. Crea
Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Gayle Davis and Terri Hipps
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Bomi Kim Hirsch, MiYoun Yang, Sarah Font and Kristen S. Slack
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Anne F. Farrell, Kellie G. Randall, Preston A. Britner, Betsy Cronin, S. Kim Somaroo-Rodriguez and Lisa Hansen
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Dana R. Hunter, Pamela A. Monroe and James C. Garand
Dorit Olenik-Shemesh and Tali Heiman
Amanda R. Howard, Sheri R. Parris, Lauren E. Nielsen, Rob Lusk, Kathleen Bush, Karyn B. Purvis and David R. Cross
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Ruth A. Huebner, Peter Watson, Laura Dyer, Christeen Borsheim and Colleen M. Caron
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Delphine Collin-Vézina, Elizabeth Fast, Sonia Hélie, Mireille Cyr, Stéphanie Pelletier and Barbara Fallon
Brittany A. Beyerlein and Ellin Bloch
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David Kondrat, Jayme R. Swanke, Kerry Littlewood, and Anne Strozier
Adrienne Whitt-Woosley and Ginny Sprang
Geoffrey L. Ream and Nicholas R. Forge
Elizabeth Lightfoot
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[USGAO], 2007). Building upon research relating faith (religiosity) to positive health and mental health, this study utilized cognitive and religious coping theories to examine the influence of faith on choosing to adopt, achieving positive adoption outcomes, and reducing disproportionality. From Louisiana and Texas, 113 families who adopted 226 children, 48% African American, participated in a survey measuring children’s behavior and parent distress (PSI-SF Difficult Child and Parent Distress Subscales) and religiosity (Hoge Intrinsic Religiosity Index). Of the respondents, 93% of the respondents belonged to a religious congregation, 86% attended church weekly. Controlling for child’s behavior, religiosity predicted lower stress in adoptive parenting; church attendance was related to improvement in parental health since adopting. Faith was rated most frequently as essential in parents’ decisions to adopt. The study concludes that faith may be an asset in increasing adoptions and improving adoption outcomes resulting in increased numbers of African American children adopted. The Racial Geography of Child Welfare: Toward a New Research Paradigm Dorothy E. Roberts
This article examines the community-level impact of concentrated child welfare agency involvement in African American neighborhoods. Based on interviews of 25 African American women in a Chicago neighborhood, the study found that residents were aware of intense agency involvement in their neighborhood and identified profound effects on social relationships including interference with parental authority, damage to children’s ability to form social relationships, and distrust among neighbors. The study also discovered a tension between respondents’ identification of adverse consequences of concentrated state supervision for family and community relationships and neighborhood reliance on agency involvement for needed financial support. The author discusses the implications of these findings for a new research paradigm aimed at understanding the community-level effects of racial disproportionality.
The Intersection of Race, Poverty, and Risk: Understanding the Decision to Provide Services to Clients and to Remove Children Stephanie L. Rivaux, Joyce James, Kim Wittenstrom, Donald Baumann, Janess Sheets, Judith Henry, and Victoria Jeffries
Studies have found that certain racial groups, particularly the children of African American families, are placed in foster care at a higher rate than children of other races. These families are also sometimes found to be afforded fewer services that might prevent these removals, relative to families of other races. It is unclear why this is so. Poverty has been suspected, and sometimes found, to be the primary cause of the disparity. Lacking in some of these analyses, however, was how risk of future abuse/neglect to the child entered into the decisions and particularly, how assumptions about race, poverty, and risk are factored into the decision-making process. It is important to understand this process if we are to find a way to correct it. The current study addresses this process.Findings indicate that even when controlling for risk and poverty (as well as other relevant factors), race affects the decision to provide services and to remove. We find that poverty is associated with higher risk scores. We also find that the risk scores of African American families in cases that are closed, those receiving Family Based Safety Services, and those resulting in children being removed are lower than the risk scores for Anglo families in the same groups. This suggests that rather than racial bias in the assigning of the risk score itself, disproportionality may be better explained by racial/ethnic differences in the risk threshold workers use to decision to take action on a case. In particular, the risk threshold for providing services or removing a child is higher for Anglo Americans than for African Americans.
Children Ever in Care: An Examination of Cumulative Disproportionality Joseph Magruder and Terry V. Shaw
Most studies of ethnic disproportionality in child welfare examine data in one of two ways: a point in time approach or an entry cohort approach. While each provides insight into disproportionality, neither gives a full picture of the differences among ethnic groups in the experience of the child welfare system over time. This study uses longitudinal administrative child welfare data to examine ethnic disproportionality in involvement with the child welfare system during the first seven years of life at three levels of contact: (1) initial referrals, (2) substantiated referrals, and (3) first entries. Findings suggest the experience of African American families, and probably Native America families, with the child welfare system is much different from other families.
The Benefits of Life Table Analysis for Describing Disproportionality David Crampton and Claudia J. Coulton
This article reviews how life table analysis can improve on cross-sectional analysis of disproportionality by comparing African American and Caucasian children’s risk of being investigated for child maltreatment or being placed in foster care before their 10th birthday. We then highlight the application of life table results in advocacy. Newspaper commentaries and presentations for community groups using these results raised awareness with policymakers and in turn helped to increase funding and programming that addresses disproportionality. Life table results point to the role of age and geography in understanding why disproportionality occurs. We conclude by describing how one community is using these results to develop interventions and reform strategies based on addressing these age and geography factors.