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Project Description

Intensive Home- and Community-Based Services: The intervention will increase capacity for in-home services and community foster family homes as alternative to group and institutional care, especially out-of-State care. The demonstration will be operational in all 92 counties within 18 months. The evaluation includes a total of 4,000 children at any given time will receive services under the demonstration. Estimated stay in project = 20 months/per child. A retrospectively matched sample of children receiving traditional IV-E placements/ services will be selected and compared to the experimental group. Major goals include improving child and family well-being, reducing placement in out-of-State facilities, improving youth and caretaker satisfaction, and promoting permanence.

Project duration: Jan 1998 - Sep 2003

Sites studied include Indiana

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

Over 10,000 children.
n=406 families were surveyed and interviews were conducted with 90 of them. There were a total of n=846 children in these families.

Recent Findings in Brief

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