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Project Description

Services to Substance-Abusing Caretakers: Intervention includes providing substance abuse counselors to work with CPS staff and identified families to link to treatment and other services. Evaluation includes random assignment of cases to units with substance abuse counselors (treatment) and without (control). Experimental group size is expected to be 180 per year. Major goals are to prevent foster care and reduce the number of days in foster care.

Assisted Guardianship:Intervention involves obtaining legal guardianship for children in stable foster care placements for whom adoption and reunification are not possible. Subsidy payment will not exceed current foster care payment. Evaluation includes tracking costs and outcomes of cases with guardianship -- anticipate 10 cases per year.

Project duration: Jul 1996 - Dec 2001

Sites studied include Delaware

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

Approximately 190 children in foster care.

Recent Findings in Brief

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