a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Child welfare Domestic violence Child exposure to violence Child welfare professionals are expected to promptly assess the current safety and future risks of children reported to them. Developing more accurate assessment methods has been a growing concern in child welfare. The presence of domestic violence and children's exposure to it are factors that have been ...

Although intimate partner violence (IPV) is a well-known risk for child maltreatment, little is known if the prevalence of and risk factors for IPV differ among US-born and foreign-born families involved with Child Protective Services. Data came from a new cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being II (NSCAW II), a national probability study of children reported for child ...

A telepsychology and telepsychiatry service, using ISDN interactive video H.320, providing psychological consultations for the Family Resource Center in Farmington, New Mexico, was evaluated. During the first year of service, 56 individuals participated including University of New Mexico staff, Family Resource Center staff and clients. Consultations involved children from families referred by t...

Editor’s note: Douglas J. Besharov, J.D., LL.M., is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Affairs. He was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, and now serves on New York City’s Child Fatality Review Panel, consults to public and private child welfar...

The new "Children's and Family Services Reviews" (CFSR) process focuses on the effectiveness of services to children and families by measuring client outcomes. This article reviews the research literature related to child welfare outcomes in order to provide a context for federal accountability efforts. It also summarizes the 2001 federal mandate to hold states accountable for child welfare out...

Extremely high turnover rates have plagued Public Child Welfare Services organizations historically and continue to do so currently. Turnover rates have ranged from 30-60% annually (Mor Barak, Nissly, & Levin, 2001) and from 46% to as high as 90% in a two-year period (Drake & Yadama, 1996). The most current national data reveals turnover rates between 15%22% among case managers and social worke...

(2015) Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: explaining the 'inverse intervention law', Children and Youth Services Review, 57, pp. 98-105. ABSTRACT Attempts to record, understand and respond to variations in child welfare and protection reporting, service patterns and outcomes are international, numerous and longstanding. Reframing such variations as an issue of ...

This issue brief seeks to explore the ways in which a differential response-organized Child Protection System (CPS) might help to mitigate disparate outcomes in child welfare while highlighting current gaps in knowledge and indicating areas for further research. It builds on discussions started at the Information Summit on Disproportionality sponsored by the National Quality Improvement Center ...

As child welfare systems across the country face the problem of parental substance abuse, there is an increasing need to understand the types of treatment approaches that are most effective for substance-abusing parents in the child welfare system-the majority of whom are mothers. This structured review of the literature focuses on evidence related to two areas: (1) individual-level interventio...

Previous studies have found mixed results about the effects of family support services within child protection system. The purpose study is to examine whether are associated with need for removals at community level. material consists Finnish municipalities (N = 292) and their indicators. Linear regression analysis was conducted analyse associations between dependent variable (child removals) m...