Some Foster Youth Need More Mental Health Services
A study published in 2018 identified certain foster care characteristics that are associated with later psychological problems. The...
A study published in 2018 identified certain foster care characteristics that are associated with later psychological problems. The...
A pair of longitudinal studies published in 2017 demonstrate both the complexity of implementing trauma systems therapy (TST) in child...
A study published in 2018, “Characteristics of Foster Care History as Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders Among Youth in Care” by...
A small 2015 study examined how child welfare workers in England, Norway, and California (USA) assessed emotional bonding as a risk...
In Spring 2017, Advances in Social Work published an article titled, “Identifying Trauma-Related and Mental Health Needs: The...
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago recently released its 3rd Wave report on California’s extended foster youth program, called...
In July 2018, The Journal of Public Child Welfare, published “Exploring trauma-informed practice in public child welfare through...
Three studies on permanency outcomes for children adopted or placed in guardianship from the foster care system all found that multiple...
In 2017, researchers published a study that found more than 50% of 2,241 youth ages 17-24 accessing homeless services in San Francisco...
An article published in 2014 looked at a three-year program to recruit, train and support MSW students as Court Appointed Special...
A study published in 2015 looked at how poly-victimization impacted girls in the criminal justice system. This information is...
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) recently released “Trauma-Informed Care in Short-Term Residential...
A 2016 study looked at the relationship between abuse and youth outcomes in relation to whether the abuse was self-reported or reported...
It has been well established that foster youth have dismal educational outcomes. Less than half graduate from high school. Only 11.8% of...
Recently the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse (CEBC) issued “A Guide for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs)” CEBC is one of...
A study published in 2017 showed that the highest teen birth rates for foster youth in California were for young women who entered the...
Although much of the research on child welfare refers to the Kaiser-Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Study on Adverse Childhood...
Research in 2013 on a foster youth mentoring program in Texas shows that these programs need careful design, training, and support to be...
Both male and female parents who age out of the foster care system have a 50% unemployment rate in the first year they exit the child...
Former foster youth studied in California, Minnesota and North Carolina had low rates of employment at age 24 compared to other...