California Child Welfare Less Likely to Note Lack of Attachment as a Risk Factor for Children
A small 2015 study examined how child welfare workers in England, Norway, and California (USA) assessed emotional bonding as a risk...
A small 2015 study examined how child welfare workers in England, Norway, and California (USA) assessed emotional bonding as a risk...
In July 2018, The Journal of Public Child Welfare, published “Exploring trauma-informed practice in public child welfare through...
In 2017, researchers published a study that found more than 50% of 2,241 youth ages 17-24 accessing homeless services in San Francisco...
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...
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...
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...
A 2017 research study looked at educational outcomes for foster youth in extended foster care. Currently 22 states have some form of...
Former foster youth studied in California, Minnesota and North Carolina had low rates of employment at age 24 compared to other...
The Center for State Child Welfare Data at the University of Chicago Chapin Hall released “Understanding the Differences in How...
It has been well documented that foster youth have high rates of prescribed psychotropic drug use. Most of this research has focused on...
In a recently released study Harvard researchers determined that the black-white wage gap is the result of large differences in wages and...
A 2015 study found that youth represented by a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer were significantly more likely to have a...
According to a report released Last week schools suspend foster youth five times more frequently than the average, and black male foster...
The San Francisco Chronicle ran an article on the front page of the paper on Feb. 17, 2018 titled, “Girl’s undue jailing exemplifies...
Ballard, P.J., Hoyt, L.T. & Pachucki, M.C., Impacts of Adolescent and Young Adult Civic Engagement on Health and Socioeconomic Status in...
This power point explains why empirical research is as important in social science as it is for medical science. Although an intervention...