May 21, 20181 minThe Famous Kaiser/CDC Study on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES)Although much of the research on child welfare refers to the Kaiser-Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Study on Adverse Childhood Experien...
May 13, 20182 minCASA Follows Best Practice for Mentoring ProgramsResearch in 2013 on a foster youth mentoring program in Texas shows that these programs need careful design, training, and support to be ...
May 6, 20181 minVery Low Earnings for Young Parents Who Age Out of Foster CareBoth 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 wel...
Apr 29, 20181 minExtended Foster Care Results in More Educated Foster YouthA 2017 research study looked at educational outcomes for foster youth in extended foster care. Currently 22 states have some form of exte...
Apr 22, 20181 minEmployment Outcomes Dim for Former Foster Youth--Especially African AmericansFormer foster youth studied in California, Minnesota and North Carolina had low rates of employment at age 24 compared to other low-incom...
Apr 15, 20181 minFemale Foster Youth Most Likely to Run Away & Black Youth Least Likely to Find a Permanent HomeThe Center for State Child Welfare Data at the University of Chicago Chapin Hall released “Understanding the Differences in How Adolescen...
Apr 8, 20182 minOlder Foster Youth and Psychiatric Drug UsageIt has been well documented that foster youth have high rates of prescribed psychotropic drug use. Most of this research has focused on c...
Apr 1, 20182 minGirls in Foster Care Need Gender-Responsive Trauma-Informed CareTrauma-informed care needs to look at the gendered needs of girls in foster care. An article first published in 2013 titled, “Responding ...
Mar 25, 20182 minFighting Racial Bias and Black Male Mentors Essential to Closing the Black-White Wage GapIn a recently released study Harvard researchers determined that the black-white wage gap is the result of large differences in wages and...
Mar 16, 20181 minFoster Youth Education ToolkitFoster youth in California have dismal school outcomes. Two thirds will move schools at least twice during the school year compared with ...
Mar 11, 20182 minBuilding Relational Skills for Foster YouthA study released in late 2017 examined four programs around the nation that instituted interventions to improve relational skills for fos...
Mar 4, 20182 minCourt Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Foster Youth Permanency OutcomesA 2015 study found that youth represented by a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer were significantly more likely to have a...
Feb 26, 20182 minFoster Youth Suspended at Five Times the Rate of Other StudentsAccording to a report released Last week schools suspend foster youth five times more frequently than the average, and black male foster ...
Feb 19, 20182 minFoster Youth Unfairly CriminalizedThe San Francisco Chronicle ran an article on the front page of the paper on Feb. 17, 2018 titled, “Girl’s undue jailing exemplifies plig...
Feb 12, 20181 min5 Step Rating for Child Welfare PracticesThe California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) is a vital resource for child welfare professionals who want to ensu...
Feb 5, 20181 minExpert in Treating Adverse Childhood Experiences to Speak in San FranciscoDr. Nadine Burke Harris is a pediatrician and the CEO of The Center for Youth Wellness the in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunters Point. She ...
Jan 31, 201812 minTribal v. Individual Rights in AdoptionThis paper is an examination of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). In particular, it looks at the legal and cultural conflict b...
Jan 28, 20182 minThe Impact of Civic Engagement in Adolescence on Adult OutcomesBallard, P.J., Hoyt, L.T. & Pachucki, M.C., Impacts of Adolescent and Young Adult Civic Engagement on Health and Socioeconomic Status in ...
Jan 22, 20181 minAre We Really Doing Good?This power point explains why empirical research is as important in social science as it is for medical science. Although an intervention...
Jan 16, 20181 minGovernment Database For Mental Health Treatment FrozenThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has maintained a database of evidence-based treatments for mental ...
