Showing papers in "Children and Youth Services Review in 2004"

TL;DR: The authors investigated the association between parent involvement in elementary school and success in high school and found that greater reported parent involvement was associated with indicators of school success, including lower rates of high school dropout, increased on-time high school completion, and highest grade completed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of income, family structure, and public policies on several indicators of child maltreatment were explored using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSS).

TL;DR: In this article, a methodological and substantive synthesis of kinship care research has been presented, which can shape practice, policy, and research in kinship foster care, as well as foster families are less qualified to foster than non-kinship counterparts.

TL;DR: The background and basic concepts of evidence-based practice (EBP) are summarized, EBP with traditional approaches are contrasted, and how EBP fits within child welfare and child maltreatment related service systems are examined.

TL;DR: Analysis of placement patterns of a cohort of 430 children between the ages of 1–16 who entered out-of-home care in San Diego County between May 1990 and October 1991 identifies significant non-clinical and clinical predictors of these patterns.

TL;DR: This article evaluated the effects of school mobility on reading and math achievement in the elementary grades (kindergarten to sixth grade) using meta-analysis for studies dated between 1975 and 1994.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of neighborhood social disorganization and alcohol access on child abuse and neglect and found that neighborhoods with higher percentages of poverty, female-headed households, Hispanic residents, population loss, and greater densities of bars have higher rates of child maltreatment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use qualitative and quantitative data from a multi-year study of low-income families included in New Hope, an experimental anti-poverty intervention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to understand why lowincome families' use of program-based child care as well as subsidies offered to pay for such care is often low and/or episodic.

TL;DR: African American subjects are consistently observed in each outcome category at higher proportions than all other racial/ethnic groups, both mainstream and minority populations.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the current body of literature on children of color in the child welfare system is presented as well as emerging themes and areas for further inquiry, focusing on four areas: (1) parent and family-related risk factors and CWS involvement; (2) social factors related to poverty, neighborhood effects and other community-related predictors of children of colour entering and staying in the CWS; (3) race and class biases in initial reporting and subsequent processing of children in the CPS, and (4) the impact of recent child welfare policy initiatives

TL;DR: In this article, a hypothesized model for predicting post-traumatic stress distress in child welfare workers was proposed, where individual, incident and organizational factors combined to produce posttraumatic stress disorder.

TL;DR: This paper examined longitudinal relationships among childhood risk and protective factors and academic, social, and mental health outcomes in late adolescence using data from the Chicago Longitudinal study, a research project that has tracked a cohort of 1539 impoverished inner-city youth from birth to young adulthood.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the implementation status of these policies, potential areas of strength and weakness, and further steps in policy development to support youth transitioning from foster care, including the education and training Voucher Program specifically providing financial assistance to former foster youth attending post-secondary education.

TL;DR: Kinship care providers endorsed more problematic parental attitudes than traditional foster parents did, and they have fewer economic and social resources, and poorer health thantraditional foster parents reported, even when controlling for age.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the usefulness of actuarial risk assessment for high-stakes decision making in child welfare, mental health, criminal justice and juvenile justice, and identified insights from the Recognition Pressed Decision Making theory (RPD) that promise to strengthen the utility of risk assessment instruments.

TL;DR: The stresses and coping strategies of the ‘children of the street’ are similar to those of other street children who live with their families and work on the streets and agencies that work with street children may need to recognize these challenges and strengths to provide needed services to improve their condition.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors critique the national standards used in the relatively new Child and Family Service Reviews being conducted by the federal government to assess state child welfare programs, and point out the conceptual limitations of the current national standards and use empirical evidence to illustrate some of these limitations.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a state-wide survey of statutory child protection workers, adult mental health workers, and child mental health providers, and found that a great deal of collaboration occur-red across a wide range of government and community-based agencies; that collaborative processes were often positive and rewarding for workers; and that collaboration was most difficult when the nature of the parental mental illness or the need for child protection intervention was contested.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative method for understanding the accuracy of an instrument that is easier to understand intuitively and to apply in practice is presented. But the importance of knowing the levels of false positives and negatives is not discussed.

TL;DR: This paper examined the influence of income source within the context of persistent poverty (from ages 8 through 11) on academic failure by age 12, and whether associations were mediated by maternal educational aspirations for their children assessed at ages 10/11.

TL;DR: The results indicate that few services are related to changes in family functioning, however, several problem specific services were related to a decreased risk of child maltreatment and substitute care placement.

TL;DR: A higher percentage of neglect, specifically lack of supervision, and less child physical abuse in the more severe domestic violence compared to the child maltreatment only and less severe domestic Violence groups.

TL;DR: There is a need for more research on how young children with developmental and medical conditions are managed within the child welfare system, according to findings of the study using 1999 AFCARS data.

TL;DR: A conceptual framework for explaining the caregiving practices of child care providers, with particular attention to providers serving low-income families and communities is presented.

TL;DR: The relationship of African American children and families to the formal childelfare system and to the practice of kinship care as an integral part of foster care planning in the child welfare system is described and it encourages social workers to become more culturally competent practitioners.

TL;DR: This article examined court cases that successfully challenged policies of child welfare agencies resulting in children's placement into substitute care or in failure to reunite children with their families for "reasons of poverty".

TL;DR: This paper examined the psychosocial functioning of 161 family foster care applicants in terms of parenting, family functioning, marital quality, psychological problems, and social support, and found that the majority of men and women had one or more problems in psycho-social functioning.

TL;DR: Findings imply that child welfare successfully targets families at risk, although many private providers have similar problems and service needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how a broad range of health and social services for pregnant and parenting teens meets their needs, access, utilization and satisfaction, and found that the majority reported symptoms consistent with clinical depression, yet very few received mental health services.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a Cox proportional hazards model to predict foster care reunification rates and found that work at the time a child was placed increased the likelihood of reunification and losing welfare benefits following a placement decreased the likelihood.