Although the welfare literature reveals a growing number of parents who are economically
disconnected, meaning neither employed nor receiving cash assistance, little is known …

Caregivers at risk of involvement in the child welfare system report high levels of need for
multiple types of services, and their children have high levels of mental health need …

The child welfare court system wrestles consistently with how to measure success.
Preventing child deaths, ensuring child safety, enhancing child well‐being, and faster …

The Chautauqua study compared the outcomes of children in foster care whose
caseworkers either received solution-focused casework (SFC) training or not in Chautauqua …

Background The initial report from the Washington Statewide Survey of Child Welfare
Involved Parents (hereafter referred to as the Parent Survey), documented the economic …

Key Finding 1: Families with young children in the child welfare system are in the greatest
need for prevention services. The findings of this report show that three-quarters of all …

In today's social and economic context in the US, many individuals experience an extended
transition to adulthood period during which they are able to delay adopting adult social roles …

The purpose of this dissertation was to assist in the development of an assessment system
that supports caseworkers in Child Welfare Service (CWS) in making informed decision …

Poverty defines the lives of most families in the child welfare system. Children are more
likely to be removed from poorer families. In the Family Stress Model, economic stress …