The promise of adolescence: Realizing opportunity for all youth

EP Backes, RJ Bonnie - 2019 - books.google.com
Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

Racial disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system: Why do they exist, and what can be done to address them?

AJ Dettlaff, R Boyd - The ANNALS of the American Academy …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Children of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system, and Black children have
been most significantly impacted by this racial disproportionality. Racial disproportionality in …

It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken: The upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system

AJ Dettlaff, K Weber, M Pendleton, R Boyd… - Journal of Public …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through
systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes …

The continuing role of material factors in child maltreatment and placement

LH Pelton - Child Abuse & Neglect, 2015 - Elsevier
This article constitutes a 20-year update to a previous publication (Pelton, 1994), which
showed that there is overwhelming evidence that poverty and low income are strongly …

[图书][B] The child welfare challenge: Policy, practice, and research

PJ Pecora, JK Whittaker, RP Barth, S Borja… - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

Racial bias, poverty, and the notion of evidence

AJ Dettlaff, R Boyd, D Merritt, JA Plummer, JD Simon - Child Welfare, 2021 - JSTOR
The overrepresentation of Black children has been observed in the child welfare system for
nearly 60 years yet persists as un unresolved problem. Efforts to address this …

Risk assessment and decision making in child protective services: Predictive risk modeling in context

S Cuccaro-Alamin, R Foust, R Vaithianathan… - Children and Youth …, 2017 - Elsevier
In an era in which child protective service agencies face increased demands on their time
and in an environment of stable or shrinking resources, great interest exists in improving risk …

How do families experience and interact with CPS?

DH Merritt - The ANNALS of the American Academy of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The lived experiences of child protective services (CPS)–involved parents is rarely
considered from a social justice perspective. Parents and children endure the oversight of …

The effects of child poverty reductions on child protective services involvement

J Pac, S Collyer, L Berger, K O'Brien… - Social Service …, 2023 - journals.uchicago.edu
In this study, we use microsimulation methods to estimate the reduction in child protective
services (CPS) involvement resulting from implementation of three of the policy packages …

Decision-making in child protective services: Influences at multiple levels of the social ecology

SA Font, K Maguire-Jack - Child abuse & neglect, 2015 - Elsevier
Decision-making in the child protection system is influenced by multiple factors; agency and
geographic contexts, caseworker attributes, and families' unique circumstances all likely …