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    • May 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    The 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...

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    • May 13, 2018
    • 2 min

    CASA Follows Best Practice for Mentoring Programs

    Research in 2013 on a foster youth mentoring program in Texas shows that these programs need careful design, training, and support to be ...

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    • May 6, 2018
    • 1 min

    Very Low Earnings for Young Parents Who Age Out of Foster Care

    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 wel...

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    • Apr 29, 2018
    • 1 min

    Extended Foster Care Results in More Educated Foster Youth

    A 2017 research study looked at educational outcomes for foster youth in extended foster care. Currently 22 states have some form of exte...

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    • Apr 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Employment Outcomes Dim for Former Foster Youth--Especially African Americans

    Former foster youth studied in California, Minnesota and North Carolina had low rates of employment at age 24 compared to other low-incom...

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    • Apr 15, 2018
    • 1 min

    Female Foster Youth Most Likely to Run Away & Black Youth Least Likely to Find a Permanent Home

    The Center for State Child Welfare Data at the University of Chicago Chapin Hall released “Understanding the Differences in How Adolescen...

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    • Apr 8, 2018
    • 2 min

    Older Foster Youth and Psychiatric Drug Usage

    It has been well documented that foster youth have high rates of prescribed psychotropic drug use. Most of this research has focused on c...

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    • Apr 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    Girls in Foster Care Need Gender-Responsive Trauma-Informed Care

    Trauma-informed care needs to look at the gendered needs of girls in foster care. An article first published in 2013 titled, “Responding ...

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    • Mar 25, 2018
    • 2 min

    Fighting Racial Bias and Black Male Mentors Essential to Closing the Black-White Wage Gap

    In a recently released study Harvard researchers determined that the black-white wage gap is the result of large differences in wages and...

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    • Mar 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Foster Youth Education Toolkit

    Foster youth in California have dismal school outcomes. Two thirds will move schools at least twice during the school year compared with ...

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    • Mar 11, 2018
    • 2 min

    Building Relational Skills for Foster Youth

    A study released in late 2017 examined four programs around the nation that instituted interventions to improve relational skills for fos...

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    • Mar 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Foster Youth Permanency Outcomes

    A 2015 study found that youth represented by a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer were significantly more likely to have a...

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    • Feb 26, 2018
    • 2 min

    Foster Youth Suspended at Five Times the Rate of Other Students

    According to a report released Last week schools suspend foster youth five times more frequently than the average, and black male foster ...

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    • Feb 19, 2018
    • 2 min

    Foster Youth Unfairly Criminalized

    The San Francisco Chronicle ran an article on the front page of the paper on Feb. 17, 2018 titled, “Girl’s undue jailing exemplifies plig...

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    • Feb 12, 2018
    • 1 min

    5 Step Rating for Child Welfare Practices

    The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) is a vital resource for child welfare professionals who want to ensu...

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    • Feb 5, 2018
    • 1 min

    Expert in Treating Adverse Childhood Experiences to Speak in San Francisco

    Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is a pediatrician and the CEO of The Center for Youth Wellness the in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunters Point. She ...

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    • Jan 31, 2018
    • 12 min

    Tribal v. Individual Rights in Adoption

    This paper is an examination of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). In particular, it looks at the legal and cultural conflict b...

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    • Jan 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Impact of Civic Engagement in Adolescence on Adult Outcomes

    Ballard, P.J., Hoyt, L.T. & Pachucki, M.C., Impacts of Adolescent and Young Adult Civic Engagement on Health and Socioeconomic Status in ...

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    • Jan 22, 2018
    • 1 min

    Are 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...

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    • Jan 16, 2018
    • 1 min

    Government Database For Mental Health Treatment Frozen

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has maintained a database of evidence-based treatments for mental ...

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