Foster care
This report reviews research and strategy literature related to foster parent recruitment and retention, looks at trends in recruitment and retention, and outlines Washington State's policies and practices.
Report
Aug 26, 2013
Out-of-home care
This report outlines how to use the Type of Count filter used on the Child Well-Being Data Portal count and rate measurements for Investigations & Assessment, In-Home
Services, and Out-of-Home Care.
Report
May 12, 2013
Reunification
This study provides evidence that children of parents who reported that they were "engaged" (e.g., trusted the child welfare system and/or their worker), had stable housing, and had completed a high school education reunified significantly faster.
Report
Feb 13, 2013
Kinship care
In the early 1990s, kinship care emerged as a child welfare model. This brief presents a model based on a "collaborative mode of practice" designed to work for the maximum benefit of children in kinship care.
Report
Feb 13, 2013
System reform
This report analyzed the results from a baseline survey of Children’s Administration supervisors. A summary of the findings highlights the supervisors’ perceptions of obstacles to helping families, the organizational climate, and job satisfaction.
Report
Jan 24, 2013
Foster care
The 2010 Foster Parent Support Pilot (FPSP) study was designed as the first step in a process to determine whether the Mockingbird Family Model (MFM) could be an efficacious foster care model.
Report
Jan 18, 2013
Out-of-home care
Following 36,797 children who first entered out-of-home care in Washington State between 2001 and 2007, this article identifies significant variation in the rates at which children experience legal permanency among jurisdictions within the state.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
Prevention/early intervention
This article describes lessons learned from two family-focused longitudinal prevention research studies of Latino immigrants in Oregon —the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study (ALAS) and the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project-II (LYFE-II).
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
Parenting
This article discusses adaptations to make Staying Connected, an evidence-based parenting program designed to support adolescent children in avoiding high-risk behaviors, more relevant for foster families.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
This article examines the joint, longitudinal trajectories of symptoms of disruptive behavior problems and of depression in a community sample drawn from neighborhoods with high rates of delinquency.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012