Welfare Reform’s Impact on Child Welfare

Welfare Reform’s Chilling Effects on Non-citizens: Changes in Non-citizen Welfare Recipiency or Shifts in Citizenship Status?

Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Disadvantaged Children? Evidence From Age-of-Youngest-Child Exemptions.

This paper assesses the impact of welfare reform’s parental work requirements on low-income children’s cognitive and social-emotional development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the work requirement rules—namely, age-of youngest- child exemptions—as a source of quasi-experimental variation in first-year maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered sta...

Addressing the impact of trauma before diagnosing mental illness in child welfare.

Congress set requirements for child welfare agencies to respond to emotional trauma associated with child maltreatment and removal. In meeting these requirements, agencies should develop policies that address child trauma. To assist in policy development, this study analyzes more than 14,000 clinical assessments from child welfare in Illinois. Based on the analysis, the study recommends child w...

Xi. Child Welfare Managed Care Reform Initiatives

In 1996, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation provided additional funding to enable the Health Care Reform Tracking Project to explore more fully: 1) the impact of state managed care reforms on children and families served by the child welfare system who need mental health and substance abuse services, and 2) the impact of managed care reforms in public child welfare systems on children with...

Emerging issues at the intersection of immigration and child welfare: results from a transnational research and policy forum.

In July 2006, the American Humane Association and the Loyola University Chicago School of Social Work facilitated a roundtable to address the emerging issue of immigration and its intersection with child welfare systems. More than 70 participants from 10 states and Mexico joined the roundtable, representing the fields of higher education, child welfare, international immigration, legal practice...