System reform
This article evaluates the impact of an enhanced parental legal representation program on the timing of permanency outcomes for 12,104 children who entered court-supervised out-of-home care in Washington State for the first time between 2004 and 2007.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
Mental health
This study measures cortisol levels in Latino immigrant farmworkers in Oregon and compares measures of stress against the general population. Preliminary results suggest chronic stress plays a role in health risk among the Latino immigrant population.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
Mental health
Utilizing data from a 20-year longitudinal study, this article examines the relationship between symptoms of conduct disorder, ADHD, and depression during late childhood and mid-adolescence and body mass index (BMI) during emerging adulthood.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
Incarcerated parents/corrections
This article examines differences between incarcerated mothers, incarcerated fathers, and their families on factors that might be important to consider when creating the content and process of preventive intervention programs.
Publication
Dec 31, 2012
Mentoring
This report provides a brief overview of four parent engagement/mentoring models (Icebreaker meeting, Parent to Parent Program, Parent Mentoring Program, and Parent Partners Program) currently being implemented in Washington State.
Report
Dec 18, 2012
Courts
Using DSHS data for children entering out-of-home care for the first time between 2001 and 2007, this study examines how involvement in the dependency court process is related to the timing of reunification, adoption, or guardianship in Washington State.
Publication
Dec 31, 2011
System reform
This review of the book Fostering Accountability concludes that the editors provide child welfare administrators with a cogent and comprehensive description of how results-oriented accountability might be implemented in a modern child welfare agency.
Publication
Dec 31, 2011
Parenting
Using data from the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, this article discusses factors contributing to the social, behavioral, and emotional adjustment of young immigrants to life in the U.S.
Publication
Dec 31, 2011
Mental health
This study finds that middle school students with greater absenteeism at the start of the study tended toward increased depression and behavior problems after a year.
Publication
Dec 31, 2011
Incarcerated parents/corrections
This study compares adolescents who had had an incarcerated parent to those who did not across four areas: family social advantage, parent health, the family parenting strategies, and youth externalizing behavior and delinquency.
Publication
Dec 31, 2011