The New South Wales Department of Community Services is a state child protection agency in Australia. It has developed a stock and flow discrete-event simulation model that forecasts the population of children in out-ofhome care. This will allow planning and funding of out-of-home care services, as well as forecasting carer payment expenditure. It utilises estimates of unit costs for different ...

New technology trends of the ubiquitous computing era foster substantial changes in all application domains. With respect to home entertainment (HE), the most important change is not what new hardand software can provide inside this domain but across hyperdomains to which HE will belong. We emphasize the two most important such hyperdomains, namely smart homes and ambient entertainment. For HE ...

Report #1 – October 2001, “Inpatient Treatment for Children and Adolescents” Report #2 – November 2001, “Inpatient Treatment for Adolecent Substance Abusers” Report #3 – Febuary 2002, “Group Care for Children and Adolescents” Report #4 – December 2002, “Outcome Studies of Children and Adolescents with Autism” Report #5 – February 2003, “Family Centered Home Based Models for Treatment Prevention...

For families with youth who have disabling conditions, the end of high school coincides with a number of changes for which they may be unprepared: school to work, home to independent living, pediatric to adult health care, among others. In their chapters in On Your Own without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance ...

Although we have not yet demonstrated empirically that the FHF program is effective in addressing mental health, behavioral, and academic issues among preadolescent youth placed in foster care, we believe we have a very promising model. We have successfully negotiated many challenges of conducting a RCT within a child welfare setting, in large part because of the collaboration and support of ou...

Medical care delivery has evolved from a paternalistic model to one of shared decisions and shared responsibility. This concept of partnership is fundamental to the model of the Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH). In practice, implementing this shift is often problematic given constraints of both time and attitude. Tools available to foster the practice of shared decision making include decis...

In this article, we address the long-run associations between childhood shocks and health in late adulthood. Applying a life-course approach and data from SHARE, we estimate direct and indirect relations of shocks like relocation, dispossession, or hunger and health outcomes after 50 years of age. Having lived in a children's home, in a foster family, or having suffered a period of hunger turn ...

Although effective outpatient treatments have been identified for the well-documented negative outcomes associated with delinquency and substance use, effective treatments for youths in out-of-home care are rare. In this study, 12- and 18-month substance use outcomes were examined for a sample of 79 boys who were randomly assigned to Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (experimental conditio...