Mark F. Testa

TL;DR: The authors identified selected factors related to child maltreatment and delinquency and disentangled the timing of delinquency petitions relative to movements within the child welfare system, finding that substantiated victims of maltreatment average 47% higher delinquency rates relative to children not indicated for abuse or neglect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on families in the child welfare system with co-occurring problems and examine whether it is necessary to go beyond assessment and service access to insure families make progress in each cooccurring problem area to achieve reunification.

TL;DR: Lau et al. as mentioned in this paper studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and rates of self-reported maltreatment among high-risk youth in public Sectors of Care and foster care history across four racial/ethnic groups in a public system of care.

TL;DR: This study provides an initial examination of the effectiveness of one service integration model that emphasizes the provision of intensive case management to link substance abuse and child welfare services and indicates that the families assigned to the experimental group used substance abuse services at a significantly higher rate and were more likely to achieve family reunion than were families in the control group.

TL;DR: Children whose parents were reported as regularly visiting and working toward regaining custody and grew-up in the American South and attended church regularly were more likely to be reunified and lesslikely to be replaced than children whose parents was reported as non-cooperative with visitation and service plans.