There is limited research assessing the effectiveness of family engagement for improving permanency for children. An important challenge is that randomized designs are not feasible for evaluating these practices because effective implementation of family engagement requires systemic change. Findings from a national evaluation are presented to illustrate how preliminary evidence can be developed...

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) mandates policies designed to increase the frequency and speed with which permanency is achieved for children in the child welfare system. ASFA's focus is on child safety, permanency, and well-being. The expectation that parents correct neglectful conditions within specified time frames places an increased ethical responsibility on child welfare...

Administrative data provide a rich source of information for child welfare administrators and the child welfare research community. With administrative data, program managers, evaluators and others may examine who is served by the child welfare system, engage in continuous quality improvement efforts, and evaluate changes in service delivery outputs and outcomes over time. In addition, using ad...

Little attention has been given to whether adolescents' beliefs about anonymity and their normative beliefs about cyber aggression jointly increase their perpetration of cyber aggression. To this end, the present longitudinal study examined the moderating influence of these variables on the relationships among adolescents' attitudes toward the permanency of digital content, confidence with not ...

Up to date several strategies of how to retrieve depth information from a sequence of images have been described. In this paper a method that is inspired in Neurobiology and that turns around the symbiosis existing between stereovision and motion is introduced. A motion representation in form of a two-dimensional motion charge map, based in the so-called permanency memories mechanism is present...

Up to date several strategies of how to retrieve disparity information from a sequence of images have been described. In this paper we introduce a method to retrieve disparity based on motion and stereovision. A motion representation in form of a bidimensional motion charge map, based in the so-called permanency memories mechanism is presented. For each pair of frames of a video stereovision se...

The Children’s Home Society of Florida (CHS) embarked on an effort to improve child outcomes and workforce outcomes through an initiative called ChildWIN. Consisting of three components (career ladder, reduced caseloads, and Solution-Based Casework training), this initiative was fully implemented in Seminole County, partially implemented in Orange County, and not implemented in the Treasure Coa...