OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a mentoring and skills group intervention for preadolescent children in foster care on placement stability and permanence at 1-year postintervention. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 9- to 11-year-old children who were maltreated and placed in foster care (n = 54 control; n = 56 intervention). State child welfare records provided info...

OBJECTIVE To test the effects of the Solution-Based Casework practice model on federal outcomes of safety, permanency and well-being. The Solution-Based Casework model combines family development theory, solution-focused skills and relapse prevention for the casework process in child protection. METHOD 4,559 public child welfare cases were reviewed through a CQI case review process. RESULTS...

Preface This series of papers, Integrating Safety, Permanency and Well-Being in Child Welfare, describes how a more fully integrated and developmentally specific approach in child welfare could improve both child and system level outcomes. The papers were developed to further the national dialogue on how to more effectively integrate an emphasis on well-being into the goal of achieving safety, ...

There are several strategies of how to retrieve depth information from a sequence of images, like depth from motion, depth from shading and depth from stereopsis. In this paper, we introduce a new method to retrieve depth based on motion and stereopsis. A motion detection representation helps establishing further correspondences between different motion information. This representation bases in...

Abstract This article presents findings from an exploratory in-depth qualitative research project with seventeen child welfare professionals exploring their permanency decisions regards to Looked after Children. Thinking aloud-protocols and semi-structured interviews, in conjunction a specifically constructed vignette were used explore the of workers. Findings this innovative suggest that diffe...