Change Trajectories During Home-Based Services With Chronic Child Welfare Cases

I-15: Offering Fertility Services to Whom? With Specific Regards to The Welfare of The Child

Child-Only Welfare Cases in Madison County

Ever since the welfare reform of the late 1990's, greater attention has been paid to the child-only welfare households. These are the households in which only the children are eligible to receive TANF funding, due the SSI or immigrant status of their parents or because they are living with non-parent relative caregivers. Studies have begun to look at the specific problems facing these household...

A statewide trial of the SafeCare home-based services model with parents in Child Protective Services.

OBJECTIVES In this trial, we compared Child Protective Services (CPS) recidivism outcomes between the home-based SafeCare (SC) model for child neglect and comparable home-based services, but without SC modules, for parents in the CPS system across 2 quality control strategies: coached (C) and uncoached implementation. SC is a home-based behavioral skills training model designed for neglecting o...

Home Foreclosure and Child Protective Services Involvement.

OBJECTIVE We estimated associations between experiencing a home foreclosure filing and experiencing a child protective services (CPS) investigation or substantiation. METHODS We linked a large sample drawn from administrative data on foreclosure filings, CPS involvement, and participation in a host of other public programs for >60,000 Wisconsin households over a 4-year period from 2008 to 201...

Closer to home: parent mentors in child welfare.

This article addresses the emerging use of parent mentors--parents who have successfully negotiated the child welfare system and provide support and advocacy to others. The theoretical justification, roles, and expected outcomes and benefits of parent mentors are explored. The organizational factors thought to be required for such programs are also described, drawing on the available literature...