Child Welfare

Archived Publications

Apr 2004 Child Maltreatment 2002
Jan 2004 Child Welfare: Improved Federal Oversight Could Assist States in Overcoming Key Challenges
Dec 2003 Child Welfare: States Face Challenges in Developing Information Systems and Reporting Reliable Child Welfare Data
Jul 2003 Child Welfare: Most States Are Developing Statewide Information Systems, but the Reliability of Child Welfare Data Could Be Improved
Jun 2003 D.C. Child and Family Services: Better Policy Implementation and Documentation of Related Activities Would Help Improve Performance
Jun 2003 Who Will Adopt the Foster Care Children Left Behind?
May 2003 DC Child and Family Services: Key Issues Affecting the Management of Its Foster Care Cases
Apr 2003 Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice: Federal Agencies Could Play a Stronger Role in Helping States Reduce the Number of Children Placed Soley to Obtain Mental Health Services
Mar 2003 Child Welfare: HHS Could Play a Greater Role in Helping Child Welfare Agencies Recruit and Retain Staff
Jan 2003 A Vision for Eliminating Poverty and Family Violence: Transforming Child Welfare and TANF in El Paso County, Colorado
Jan 2003 Youth who "Age Out" of Foster Care: Troubled Lives, Troubling Prospects
Dec 2002 Welfare Reforms, Family Resources, and Child Maltreatment
Oct 2002 Child Welfare Watch: Uninvited Guests: Teens in New York City Foster Care
Aug 2002 Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Jul 2002 Child Welfare and TANF Implementation: Recent Findings
Jun 2002 Shoring up the Child Welfare - TANF Link
May 2002 The Multiple Dimensions of Child Abuse and Neglect: New Insights into an Old Problem
Apr 2002 Welfare Reform and Child Protective Services
Mar 2002 Assessing the Context of Permanency and Reunification in the Foster Care System
Mar 2002 Foster Care Dynamics in Urban and Non-Urban Counties
Feb 2002 Child Welfare & TANF Reauthorization
Feb 2002 The Well-Being of Children Involved with the Child Welfare System
Jan 2002 Advocasey Special Report on Foster Teens in Transition
Dec 2001 Growth in the Adoption Population
Oct 2001 Child Welfare Conference Research Paper Summaries
Sep 2001 Child Welfare IVE Waiver Progam - What the Evaluations are Telling Us
Feb 2001 Children Cared For by Relatives: Who Are They and How Are They Faring?
Feb 2001 The Cost of Protecting Vulnerable Children II: What Has Changed Since 1996?
2001 Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues
Jun 2000 Report to Congress on Kinship Foster Care
  Assessing the Influence of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare Systems
  Child Welfare and TANF Reauthorization
  Child Welfare Privatization Reform Efforts in the States
  Child Welfare Outcomes
  Children in Foster Care: Challenges in Meeting Their Health Care Needs Through Medicaid
  Congressional briefing on child welfare and child protection
  Federal Programs for Children and Families
  Financing Child Welfare Services Under TANF
  Health Conditions, Utilization, and Expenditures of Children in Foster Care--1999
  Health Conditions, Utilization, and Expenditures of Children in Foster Care--2000
  Involvement of TANF Applications with Child Protective Services
  Issue Brief (focusing on adoption and foster care)
  Lighting the Way: Attracting and Supporting Foster Families
  Making a Difference: Child Advocates Help Working Families by Improving Access to Benefits in the Wake of Welfare Reform
  National Study of Child Protective Services Systems and Reform Efforts: Literature Review
  Red Flags: Research Raises Concerns About the Impact of "Welfare Reform" on Child Maltreatment
  Self-Sufficiency of Former Foster Youth in Wisconsin: Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Wage Data and Public Assistance Data
  Unfinished Business: Analyzing NYC’s Foster Care Reforms
  Welfare Reform and Child Maltreatment