This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

Calls for expanded use of tested child mental health interventions in child welfare practice
add new urgency to the longstanding question of how to enhance parent engagement in …

This study evaluated the intermediate and long-term effects of family foster care on adult
functioning using a sample of 659 young adults from two public and one private child …

Using both historical and contemporary contexts, The Child Welfare Challenge examines
major policy practice and research issues as they jointly shape child welfare practice and its …

Although foster care is intended to be temporary, and policy explicitly requires permanency
outcomes, many children experience lengthy stays and exit foster care without a permanent …

This study utilizes population-level birth data to describe those children who may be at
greatest risk of maltreatment during the first five years of life. Based on a unique dataset …

This study used data on 2,453 children aged 4–17 from the National Survey of Child and
Adolescent Well‐Being and 5 analytic methods that adjust for selection factors to estimate …

This paper presents data about the emotional, behavioural and substance abuse disorders
of youth in foster care and former recipients of foster care ('alumni') in the USA. The …

At a time when there is increasing attention being given to systematically integrating the well-
being of children with the goals of safety and permanence in child welfare, little is known …

Studies have found that certain racial groups, particularly the children of African American
families, are placed in foster care at a higher rate than children of other races. These families …