Calls for expanded use of tested child mental health interventions in child welfare practice
add new urgency to the longstanding question of how to enhance parent engagement in …

There exists a little research on children of color in the child welfare system (CWS) and most
of what we know focuses on provision of child welfare services and system-related …

It is probably true to say that, for most people, childhood is a mixed experience where
periods of sadness and loss are balanced with moments of happiness and achievement …

Objectives. This study examined racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service access and
use at different poverty levels. Methods. We compared demographic and clinical …

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 …

This study compares child welfare services provided to Aboriginal (Indian) and Caucasian
children in Canada. The findings suggest that child welfare reports involving Aboriginal …

Children in foster care face a challenging journey through childhood. In addition to the
troubling family circumstances that bring them into state care, they face additional difficulties …

In the early 1990s, the US Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect commissioned a
series of reviews that appeared as the edited volume, Protecting Children from Abuse and …

Over the past two decades, the foster care system experienced an unprecedented rise in the
number of children in out-of-home care, significant changes in the policy framework guiding …

This paper uses Census and child welfare report data from Missouri (1999, 2000 & 2001) to
determine if Whites and Blacks are reported for child maltreatment at similar or different rates …