Prevalence of mental health diagnoses among early adolescents before and during foster care

T Herd, L Palmer, S Font - Journal of Developmental & Behavioral …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Objective: This study aimed to characterize the rates and types of diagnosed mental health
(MH) disorders among children and adolescents before and during foster care (FC) overall …

Child welfare system-level factors associated with all-cause mortality among children in foster care in the United States, 2009–2018

JY Lee, DL Steelesmith, BH Chaiyachati… - Child …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Little is known about the impact of child welfare system-level factors on child mortality as an
outcome within foster care. Using data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and …

Child protective services involvement and exclusionary school discipline

SA Font, R Kennedy, T Littleton - Child development, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The study examined the impact of child protective services (CPS) contact on out‐of‐school
suspensions for 49,918 Wisconsin students (followed from ages 5–6 to 14–15;[school years …

Left behind? Educational disadvantage, child protection, and foster care

S Font, L Palmer - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2024 - Elsevier
Background Current educational policies for children involved with the Child Protective
Services (CPS) system focus largely on the minority of children currently in or aging out of …

Self-Regulation and High School Graduation for Youth With and Without Disabilities in Foster Care

W Cavendish, K Stewart… - Remedial and …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
High school graduation rates for youth in foster care are disproportionally low. The purpose
of this study was to examine the relationship between self-regulation and high school …

Do foster youth face harsher juvenile justice outcomes? Reinvestigating child welfare bias in juvenile justice processing

EG Goldstein, SA Font, RS Kennedy… - Criminology & Public …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary For decades, child welfare scholars and policy makers have been
concerned with the strong association between foster care and juvenile justice involvement …

Disrupted family reunification: Mental health, race, and state-level factors

LM Beard, KW Choi - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
The children's mental health landscape is rapidly changing, and youth with mental health
conditions (MHCs) are overrepresented in the child welfare system. Mental health is the …

[HTML][HTML] A Longitudinal analysis of concerning psychotropic medication regimens among adolescents in foster care

L Palmer, T Herd, AS Swanson, J Felt, S Font - Journal of Adolescent …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To provide a population-based examination of psychotropic medication use before
and after entry into foster care (FC), with special attention on the use of concerning …

The Impact of Trauma-Informed Training for a Youth Residential Center on Staff Attitudes and Behavior

K Crawford, AD Campbell, K Shackelford… - Journal of Evidence …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Children with behavioral issues in residential care settings have high rates of
trauma, with a range of trauma experiences such as abuse and neglect, issues with …

Middle School Foster Youth and the Implications of School Psychology

A Cuevas - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Foster students are considered the most educationally vulnerable students. Of the over
400,000 foster youth, approximately 270,000 are school-aged. Foster youth are reported to …