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The Federal Parent Locator Service (FPLS), a service operated by the Office of Child Support Services (OCSS), may be accessed by state child welfare agencies to locate and notify parents and other relatives of a child…
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This report describes the results of the subsequent primary review of Maine’s Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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This poster was created for the final Permanency Innovations Initiative Grantee meeting held in August 2016. The poster summarizes the methods and results related to an intervention to reduce long-term foster care in…
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The passage of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-272) significantly reoriented child welfare services from a system which focused on foster care placement to one which was intended to…
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This document is supplementary material to the subsequent primary review of South Carolina's Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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Describes the nature, scope, and impact of interjurisdictional adoption placement efforts and the strategies that improve outcomes for children in foster care who are placed for adoption in other jurisdictions.…
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The ‘Predicting And Preventing Child Neglect In Teen Mothers’ project was designed to assess the impact of varying degrees and types of neglect and poor parenting on children’s development during the first 3 years of…
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This Child Welfare Information Gateway Podcast is available on Apple Podcasts , GooglePlay , Spotify , Stitcher , SoundCloud , and the Child Welfare Information Gateway website. Subscribe to receive new episodes as they…
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This report provides preliminary estimates of Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data for FY 2016. As states are permitted to resubmit AFCARS data, the estimates may change over time. This…
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This document is Mississippi's program improvement plan in response to the subsequent primary review of its Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset…
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The Second Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS-2) was conducted in 2005 and designed to update and expand upon the previous Youth Internet Safety Survey (YISS-1) conducted in 1999/2000. This study involves telephone…
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The purpose of the Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care project is to examine rates of instability, factors associated with instability, and the supports…
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The second National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW II) is a longitudinal study intended to answer a range of fundamental questions about the well-being, functioning, service needs, and service use of…
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Baseline assessments contained approximately 307 items, though the number of items displayed to respondents depended on skip logic, which was based on position and whether the respondent worked directly with families.…
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This federally-funded study examined factors that influenced the decision not to substantiate a child protective services (CPS) referral after a child protective services investigation in Washington State. The study was…
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This study was conducted in 1976 at the University of New Hampshire. 2,134 respondents were interviewed in a nationwide sample of 960 males and 1,183 females. The purpose of the study was to ascertain methods of…
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Tailored technical assistance (TA) is available to states that are working with the Children’s Bureau to plan for their NYTD Review on ways to engage young adults (ages 18−25) with current or former foster care…
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This study is designed to assess the outcomes in mid to late adolescence of preadolescent physically abused and matched non-maltreated children first studied at ages 9-12 years. The outcome domains were Externalizing…
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This report describes the results of the subsequent primary review North Dakota’s Title IV-E foster care program. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.
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Chafee Independent Living Evaluation Project identifies programs that can be rigorously evaluated and ultimately determines the effects of Independent Living Programs funded under CFCIP in achieving key outcomes for…
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