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According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Jeffrey McCabe, Hannah Hagan
This qualitative study collected the first-known responses from former child welfare-involved youth detailing their experiences of participating in child welfare interviews at school. Ten participa...
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“They want to hear my voice”: facilitators of interprofessional collaboration among professionals supporting the education of children and youth in foster care Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Kalah M. Villagrana
An achievement gap in K-12 education exists between children in foster care and their peers. Professionals have a shared responsibility to support the education of these children, but often face ba...
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CaseAIM: child welfare workers’ experiences using information and communication technology for case management services Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Lauren H. K. Stanley, Melissa Radey, Sophia Lutz, Dina J. Wilke
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance child welfare services provides innovative tools and support for child welfare workers to manage caseloads effectively. This s...
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Do intensive specialized services prevent family separation in parents with intellectual disabilities? A treatment effects analysis Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Wendy Zeitlin, Astraea Augsberger, Trupti Rao
The current study explores the effectiveness of Project IMPACT, an intensive, in-home, skills-based positive parenting program designed to prevent out-of-home placement for parents with intellectua...
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Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-22 Susan Flynn
Abuse of children with disabilities occurs at significantly higher rates than for their majority population peers. Compounding this are complex barriers to effective professional safeguarding. Rath...
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Facilitators and barriers of using mental health services among children in foster care: insights from foster parents in a Southeastern state Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Yanfeng Xu, Nelís Soto-Ramírez, Oluranti Babalola
This study explored facilitators of and barriers to mental health services for children in foster care in a Southeastern state. We thematically analyzed 10 interviews with foster parents. Throughou...
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How to protect those who protect: psychosocial risks in child welfare workers during the pandemic Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-07 L. Sanchis-Giménez, M. Viera-Abelleira, C. Pérez-Campos, V. Prado-Gascó, A. Tamarit
Child welfare professionals face elevated psychosocial risks, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, yet they are often overlooked in specialized literature, especially for Spanish workers. Most ...
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The Cuyahoga youth count: one county’s prevalence of and experience data from LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home placements Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Marlene Matarese, Elizabeth Greeno, Angela Weeks, Paige Hammond, Lyndsay K. Smith, Bianca D.M. Wilson
This study aimed to better understand the experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in foster care in the Midwest. Of the youth who participated in the study, 32.2% indicated they were LGBTQ+. LGBTQ+ youth were ...
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Retrospective narratives of challenges experienced during adolescence and young adulthood after child welfare-involvement Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Janet U. Schneiderman, Ferol E. Mennen, Abigail C. Palmer Molina, Julie A. Cederbaum
This qualitative, narrative, retrospective study of adults (N = 21; mean age 27.8 years) with child welfare involvement in young adolescence explored the participants’ challenges in childhood and y...
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Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Maria Lotty, Noreen Kearns, Margarita Frederico
This study explored the experiences of child welfare professionals who participated in a graduate level Trauma-informed Care program in Ireland. Through three focus groups, thematic analysis reveal...
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Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Ryan Hanlon, Abigail Lindner, Katherine V. Garcia-Rosales
This study compared the child welfare outcomes for families who participated in a private foster care support program, Promise686, compared to all other families in Georgia’s foster care system. Us...
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Examining the role of the parent-caseworker relationship in child maltreatment decision-making Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Erika Tullberg, Wendy Vaughon
Child welfare (CW) professionals are charged with investigating reports of alleged child maltreatment and determining whether and what type of maltreatment has occurred. Multiple factors contribute...
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Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment: a mediating role of parenting aggravation Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Jinyung Kim, Haksoon Ahn
To examine the role of subjective and objective poverty in relation to child maltreatment through parenting aggravation, the current study selected the biological mothers in wave 5 of the Future of...
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Foster caregivers in crisis: a comparison study of the perceptions of foster caregivers and child welfare workers Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-05 Bonni Goodwin, Angela Pharris
This qualitative study explored the perceptions of child welfare workers and foster caregivers regarding stress and crises in foster homes. Interviews of foster caregivers (n = 14) and child welfar...
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Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Melissa M. Ptacek, Lauren D. Smith, Robyn M. Powell, Monika Mitra
This qualitative study explored the perceptions and experiences of 16 mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) regarding their interactions with the child welfare system durin...
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Everyone benefits when there is another MSW in child welfare: exploring ways to support Title IV-E MSW student-employees Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Liza A. Castañeda, Meekyung Han
The Title IV-E program is crucial for the public child welfare (PCW) system as it supports the training and retention of skilled workers. However, there is a lack of information about how PCW agenc...
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The problems of social preparedness of orphanage graduates in Kazakhstan Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Azat Meshelova, Aizhan Shabdenova, Gulnara Kenzhakimova
The key objective of the article was to analyze the current model of social preparedness of young people who were left without parental care in childhood and brought up in orphanages in Kazakhstan....
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“Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Irene Salvo Agoglia, Catherine A. LaBrenz, Marian Bilbao
The inseparability of siblings is a key child rights principle, however, many children adopted from care are separated from siblings. Through a self-administered survey, we examined Chilean adoptiv...
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Interprofessional collaborations in child welfare: providers’ experiences Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Karen Zilberstein, Jeff Gau, Adam Brown, J Burton, Ally Jordan Hatcher
This study investigated the experiences of providers collaborating with child welfare workers using the Quality of Collaboration with Child Welfare (Q-CCW) survey. The findings reveal a significant...
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Effectiveness of parent–infant psychotherapy for infant development, parenting, parental mental health, and the attachment relationship: a review of the literature Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-05 Charlotte Cucciniello, Yvonne Melia
Parent–child psychotherapy (PIP) is recommended for maltreated children. This review provides a synthesis of PIP outcomes for parents, children, and their relationship. Eight databases were searche...
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Exploring child welfare worker wellbeing, organizational social context, and staff recommendations for change: a mixed method case study Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Kristen Lwin, Xiaohong Shi, Rachel Jewell, Stacey Lock, Holly Stack-Cutler, Derrick Drouillard
Unpacking evidence-based practice in social work education: a scoping review Child welfare workers are the link between families and the system and are tasked with assessing and mitigating child ma...
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A fight to work with families, rather than against them: exploring social workers’ experiences of working within the family safeguarding model; an IPA analysis Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Charlotte Cucciniello, Yvonne Melia
This qualitative study explores social workers’ experiences of working within the Family Safeguarding Model and its implications for relationships with families and professionals. Semi-structured i...
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Adoptive parents’ perspectives on adoption adjustment and post-adoption support Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Bonni Goodwin, Elissa Madden, Payton Harrison
This study investigated adoption adjustment and the honeymoon period through the perspective of adoptive parents. Parents who had adopted a child from a public child welfare system participated in ...
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Supervision in child welfare: Its importance to investigators and case managers Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Julie A. Steen, Chris Stewart
This study provides an examination of the relationship between supervision and turnover intention in child welfare. Using a cross-sectional survey design, responses were received from 179 protectiv...
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Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Sunggeun (Ethan) Park, Melanie Nadon, Nathanael J. Okpych, Justin S. Harty, Mark Courtney
Transition-age youth with foster care involvement (TAY) face significant risks for food insecurity and other hardships in early adulthood. Using representative survey data of youth transitioning ou...
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The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Micki Washburn, L. Christian Carr, Patrick Leung
Title-IV E training is thought to minimize PCW employee turnover. A total of 969 PCW workers in a southern state completed an anonymous survey about their intentions to remain employed in PCW. A mu...
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An examination of child welfare agency models that serve immigrant children and families Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kristina K. Lovato, Megan Finno-Velasquez, Sophia Sepp, Effie Clayton, Kelechi Chinyere Wright
Child welfare agencies often experience challenges in meeting the unique needs of immigrant families. In this qualitative study, semi-structured interviews were conducted with child welfare agency ...
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What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Helena M. Carvalho, Tiago Ferreira, Beatriz Santos, Mónica Costa, Paula Mena Matos, Catarina Pinheiro Mota
This study investigated the impact of an attachment-based intervention on care workers’ reflexive functioning (RF), analyzing 212 professionals in a randomized control trial. The study employed a m...
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Identifying children at risk for maltreatment fatalities: assessing the Current landscape of birth match policies in the United States Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Daniel J. Gibbs, Paul Lanier, Claire McNellan, Katherine Bryant
Data-driven decision-making is a common approach for identifying child maltreatment. However, such strategies must be guided by ethical, equitable, and evaluative frameworks due to their potential ...
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A balancing act: partnering with the media to provide a trauma-informed approach to U.S child welfare Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Donnetta S. Washington
The United States (U.S.) media often scrutinizes and sometimes explicitly vilifies child welfare practices, particularly when the case attracts the public’s attention. In such cases, the public’s p...
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Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Anna Yelick, Bruce A. Thyer
Child welfare professionals use structured decision-making models (SDMs) to increase consistency in decision-making. The current study examined the relationship between safety and removal decision...
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Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records? Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Berit Skauge, Halvor Fauske, Anita S. Storhaug
Several studies show insufficient practices regarding children’s participation in child welfare cases. This article is based on document analysis of 216 child welfare records from four Norwegian Ch...
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Court-level stakeholders’ reunification decisions and perceived role in parents’ readiness to support early emotional development post-abuse and/or neglect Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Nicole Megan Edwards
Caregiver – child dyads exist within systems that may reinforce and/or establish structures to support holistic needs, awareness of roles, and capacity-building efforts. Systems can be challenged i...
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Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Oliver W. J. Beer, Lauren B. McInroy, Jennifer Hefner, Sandra E. Beer
This study explores the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based intervention (O-MBI) for stress prevention and reduction among frontline child protection social workers (F-CPSW...
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Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Eunhye Ahn, Fred Morstatter, Debra Waters-Roman, Lindsey Palmer, Jacquelyn McCroskey
Assessing and responding to risks to children’s safety is a primary concern of the child protection system (CPS), and decision-support tools have been developed to assist child welfare workers (CWW...
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Navigating the child welfare system: the role of enhanced parent advocacy supports in child protection Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Marina Lalayants, Lisa Merkel-Holguin
Families impacted by the child welfare system can find themselves overwhelmed and lost in agency-driven service planning, with fragmented support and changing needs. This qualitative study explored...
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Understanding the health and well-being of adults 10-15 years after adoption from the US foster care system Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rose Domanico, Heather Ringeisen, Marianne Kluckman, Kevin White, Nancy Rolock
Young adult adoptees surveyed 10-15 years after exiting the child welfare system to adoption reported that they were in good or excellent physical health; did not have a substance use problem; were...
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Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Shelby L. Clark, Brennan Miller, Becci A. Akin, Kaela Byers, Kelechi Wright, Kortney Carr, Mary Kate Hunt
Child welfare workers experience increased risk of secondary traumatic stress (STS) and burnout. Despite encouragement to bolster self-care, little remains known about self-care and well-being outc...
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To report or not report? How attitudes, values, and knowledge play a role in mandated reporting Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Christine V. Rogerson
In 2021, 600,000 U.S. children were victims of maltreatment. Decisions to report suspicions of child maltreatment can be influenced by one’s attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge. This qualitative stud...
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Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Lisa M. Johnson, Susan Flynn, Cate Thomas, Elspeth Slayter
How child protection and welfare policies address the disability community is a matter of utmost importance and urgency in the context of well-established inequalities. We present a policy content ...
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Connecting children and youth with their families during COVID-19: perspectives of child welfare workers and foster parents Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Sarah Maiter, Derrick Ssewanyana, Daniel Kikulwe, Christa Sato
We explore approaches, challenges, solutions, and recommendations offered by child welfare workers in Canada on remote communication with children/youth regarding safety and on managing parent–chil...
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The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Naomi Nichols, Jessa McAuliffe
In this article we use institutional ethnography to investigate the intersection between provincially mandated digital technologies intended to streamline decision-making, improve communication, an...
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“Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”: Exploring teacher and school staff experiences with mandated reporting Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Caitlin Lau, Kira L. Alqueza, Melanie Sonsteng-Person, Victoria Copeland
Mandated reporting is the current system in place for school personnel to support youth whom they suspect have experienced maltreatment. However, limited research details the experiences of mandate...
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Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Child Welfare and Court: Identifying Challenges and Implications to Move Social Work Practice Forward Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Kimberly A. Williams, Haksoon Ahn, Elsa Moeller
Collaboration between the child welfare and court systems is critical. Using qualitative data, experiences of stakeholders were examined to identify areas where growth is needed. Stakeholders inclu...
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Intersectionality and the Overrepresentation of Black Women, children, and families in the child welfare system: A scoping review Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Abigail Williams-Butler
This paper conducts a scoping review to identify studies which use the framework of intersectionality to understand the overrepresentation of Black women, children, and families within the child we...
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Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Melissa R. Trussell, Heather Farley
CarePortal allows community members to partner with the Division of Family and Child Services and make donations intended to prevent children from entering foster care or support current foster/kin...
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Utilizing focus groups to inform the development of a standardized pre-certification resource parent training curriculum Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Stephen DiDonato, Vanessa Thiel, Jeanne Felter, Rebekah Phillips, Lesly Jimenez, Kimberly Riordan, Adonis Banegas, Angelle Richardson, Rosemary Frasso
Standardized, trauma-informed pre-certification trainings for resource parents may influence placement stability and outcomes for children in foster care. Eight focus groups were conducted to elici...
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Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Emily Hindman, Ella Wiseman, Peter Hassmén
High child protection caseworker turnover diminishes care quality. While burnout is acknowledged, the impact of protective factors is unclear. This study examines caseworkers' burnout, individual r...
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Perspectives and experiences of preschool teachers in preventing and intervening child abuse and neglect Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Zeynep Turhan, Aslıhan Demir, Ferda Karadağ
The ability to identify and report child abuse and neglect at schools plays a significant role in protecting children and reducing the consequences of violence and abuse. This research examines how...
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Behavioral health and legal system involvement among transition-age youth in foster care: a longitudinal analysis of youth in California Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Keunhye Park, Michelle R. Munson, Mark E. Courtney, Kierra Blair
Research shows that young people in foster care experience high levels of behavioral health problems that may lead to life obstacles, including legal system involvement (LSI) during the transition ...
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A multi-year study of camp-based reunification and the well-being of siblings separated by out-of-home care Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Jeffrey Waid, Faith VanMeter, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak
Camp-based reunification is a developmentally informed approach to strengthen the relationships of siblings in out-of-home care. Little is known about the collective impact of these programs, or if...
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Barriers to the involvement of extended family and fictive kin in the lives of children in foster care Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Scott C. Leon, Nicole Hodgkinson, Jennifer Osborne, Nathan M. Lutz, Lauren A. Hindt
Little is known about the people who comprise the natural support networks of children in foster care and any barriers to their ability to provide social support. Based on interviews with the netwo...
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Resource parents during two pandemics: navigating racism and COVID-19 Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Kenyon Lee Whitman, Matthew A. Ruderman, Vanessa Perez, Jill Waterman, Todd Franke, Audra K. Langley
The emergence of COVID-19 created a global health crisis and impacted children and families, disproportionately affecting minoritized communities. Simultaneously, protests and anti-racist uprisings...
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Foster parent factors associated with placement stability: An umbrella review Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Jeanna T. Pixley
JBI protocol for umbrella reviews was applied in the narrative synthesis of data from four systematic reviews and one meta-analysis through an intersectionality lens to isolate empirical evidence s...
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Poverty and child maltreatment: a systematic review Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Jinyung Kim, Yoonzie Chung, Haksoon Ahn
Poverty has long been indicated as a risk factor for child maltreatment. This review aims to synthesize the existing literature regarding the relationship between income-level poverty and child mal...
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A preliminary view of the use of telehealth in a child welfare agency during the pandemic Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Mary C Acri, Jennifer Joseph, Glenn Saxe
The child welfare system’s method of service delivery shifted abruptly during the pandemic to a telehealth modality. The perceived impact of this change upon service delivery is largely unknown, ho...
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Child maltreatment in Swiss welfare care until 1981: former caregivers’ perspectives on the welfare context Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Shauna L. Rohner, Melanie Dorigo, Aileen Najinsky Salas Castillo, Sarah J. Mäder, Myriam V. Thoma
Caregivers can provide insight into the welfare aspects of institutional child maltreatment not apparent to children in care. This qualitative study investigated how socio-ecological and contextual...
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State variations in child maltreatment reports among adolescents in the United States Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Lucinda Okine, Rebecca Rebbe, Julie A. Cederbaum
Understanding child maltreatment on a national level is complicated by lack of consistency in definitions of abuse and reporting by state. Adolescents experience child maltreatment, but responses t...
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2022 Article of the Year Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-22
Published in Journal of Public Child Welfare (Vol. 17, No. 5, 2023)
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Understanding subgroups of child welfare placement histories in the context of youth behavior and development: a latent class analysis Journal of Public Child Welfare (IF 1.2) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Lauren Pryce McCarthy
This study aimed to identify latent classes of child welfare placement histories, with a focus on entry to residential treatment settings (RTS), and how youth behavior and development are associate...