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Project Description

Managed Care/Capitated Payment System: the State will contract with one or more licensed child placement agencies, utilizing a capitated financing model, to provide placement and support services.

Major goals are to expedite permanency, reduce time in out-of-home care, and decrease re-entry into foster care.

Services to Substance-Abusing Caretakers: 260 mothers in eastern Baltimore City and Prince Georges County who have lost custody or are at risk of losing custody of their children will receive supportive services from Family Support Services Teams, along with traditional substance abuse treatment.

Major goals are to reduce re-allegations of abuse/neglect, reduce time in foster care, increase successful completion of substance abuse treatment, and enable mothers to assume a healthy parenting role.

Project duration: Jul 2000 - Dec 2005

Sites studied include Maryland

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

Random assignment. From Prince Georges County, 30 cases will be assigned to the experimental and 30 to the control group. From eastern Baltimore City, 70 cases will be assigned to the experimental and 70 to the control group. From Baltimore County, 30 cases will be assigned to the experimental group and 30 to the control group.

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