Large numbers of children over the world experience foster care each year. How best to
satisfy their developmental needs and how to avoid placement breakdowns and negative …

Young children involved in the child welfare system are susceptible to behavioral and
physiological dysregulation. These children need nurturing care to develop organized …

Algorithms have permeated throughout civil government and society, where they are being
used to make high-stakes decisions about human lives. In this paper, we first develop a …

The US Child Welfare System (CWS) is charged with improving outcomes for foster youth;
yet, they are overburdened and underfunded. To overcome this limitation, several states …

How do youth in foster care experience non-death loss? Drawing upon the theories of
ambiguous loss, symbolic loss, and disenfranchised grief, this applied theoretical article …

As a result of the Every Student Succeeds Act and its requirement that students in foster care
be included in education report cards, states have a renewed sense of urgency surrounding …

Mentalization-based interventions show promise in improving mental health outcomes for
children and parents through increasing a family's reflective functioning, or ability to …

Caseworkers are trained to write detailed narratives about families in Child-Welfare (CW)
which informs collaborative high-stakes decision-making. Unlike other administrative data …

Algorithms in public services such as child welfare, criminal justice, and education are
increasingly being used to make high-stakes decisions about human lives. Drawing upon …

Prior research has repeatedly documented higher placement stability for children who enter
kinship care rather than non-relative foster care. However, little is known about why, and …