Associations between intensity of child welfare involvement and child development among young children in child welfare

Child welfare involvement among children in homeless families.

An analysis of 8251 homeless children in New York City found that 18% of them received child welfare services over the five-year period following their first shelter admission, and an additional 6% had a history of having received such services before their first shelter admission. Recurrent use of public shelters, exposure to domestic violence, older age at first episode of homelessness, and l...

Children of Color in the Child Welfare System: Perspectives from the Child Welfare Community

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This report Children of Color in the Child Welfare System: Perspectives from the Child Welfare Community is the culmination of a three-year collaboration between the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the Children's Bureau, Caliber Associates and Howard University School of Social Work. It represents the joint efforts of many individuals whose commitment to this pr...

Maternity and child welfare.

going to implement the Scheme, Mr. Sargent addressing the East India Association some months ago said, 'I am old enough in Government service to realise that almost anybody who is not mentally defective, and some of those who are, can produce a report of some kind. What matters, and what is even more difficult in India than elsewhere, is to translate the report into action. My experience in Ind...

Multilevel correlates of behavioral resilience among children in child welfare.

Resilience, defined as positive adaptation and functioning following exposure to significant adversity, is an important topic of investigation in child welfare. The current study used data from the Ontario Looking After Children (OnLAC) project to estimate the prevalence of behavioral resilience (i.e., lower frequency of conduct and emotional problems, higher frequency of prosocial behavior) in...

Maternity and Child-Welfare