[PDF] Child Welfare Outcomes eBook

Author : Aron Shlonsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199973725

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This edited work offers a framework that organizes and develops the types of evidence needed at key decision points in child welfare.

Author : Anthony N. Maluccio
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Ideally, there is a close interaction between research and practice in human services, and program planning is based on such interaction, particularly the findings of outcome research. This book reviews the bodies of outcome research about child welfare programs from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, particularly outcomes in relation to service effectiveness, duration of child placement, permanency planning, and child development and functioning. The purpose of the book is to give child welfare administrators, policymakers, practitioners, and academics a comprehensive picture of the current state of child welfare knowledge. Chapter 1 discusses issues related to carrying out outcome research and describes the different service systems in the three countries. Chapter 2 examines outcome research in traditional services, such as kinship care, family foster care, treatment foster care, residential group care, and adoption. Chapter 3 reviews research findings related to outcomes of more recent service initiatives, including family preservation, family reunification, preparation for independent living, the "Looking After Children" administrative materials used in the United Kingdom, family group decision making, shared family care, and wraparound services. The book concludes by asserting that there are a number of gaps in the available research, including limited comparative studies of the outcomes of such services as adoption, family foster care, and residential care, and limited attention to the dimension of race and ethnicity. Recommendations include greater attention to the role of race and ethnicity and more cross-national research. Appended is an annotated bibliography of texts that consider outcome research in child protective services. (Contains 399 references.) (KB)

Author : Anthony N. Maluccio
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,34 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1849058199

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This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. It introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services and provides examples of evaluation from policy and practice.

Author : Anita Lightburn
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857002481

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Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential. This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. With contributions from leading international experts, it introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services; discusses relevant approaches to designing and using evaluation methods; and provides examples of evaluation from the real world of policy and practice. Issues covered include setting appropriate indicators for service effectiveness, cross-cultural evaluation of service interventions, service user involvement in evaluation, and evaluations of family and community-based services. This invaluable book will be essential reading for policy makers, planners, commissioners and managers across child and family welfare services, as well as researchers and other academics in the field.

Author : Michael J. Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1317993292

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This book provides a "work-in-progress" that seeks to capture the micro (direct service) and macro (managerial) perspectives related to identifying evidence for practice within the practice domain of public child welfare. It is divided into two categories; namely, evidence for direct practice and evidence for management practice. In Part I, the articles are categorized in the areas of child welfare assessment and child welfare outcomes. Expanded versions of the chapters can be accessed at www.bassc.net. In Part II, the focus is on organizational issues that relate to evidence for management practice. This section includes an overview of evidence-based practice from an organizational perspective along with evidence related to the experiences of others in implementing evidence-based practice. This book pushes the discussion of evidence-based practice in several new directions regarding: 1) the use of structured reviews to complement the systematic reviews of the Cochrane and Campbell Collaboratives, 2) the process of viewing the call for evidence-based practice as a goal or future vision of practice and evidence for practice provides a more immediate approach to promote evidence-informed practice, and 3) a recognition that evidence-informed practice is part of building agency-based knowledge sharing systems that involve the tacit and explicit knowledge needed to improve the outcomes of social services. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal Of Evidence-Based Social Work.

Author : Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category :
ISBN :

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"Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005: Report to Congress" (Child Welfare Outcomes Report) is the seventh in a series of annual reports from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (the Department). The reports are developed in accordance with section 479A of the Social Security Act (as amended by the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997) and provide information pertaining to State performance on the following national child welfare outcomes: (1) Reduce recurrence of child abuse and/or neglect; (2) Reduce the incidence of child abuse and/or neglect in foster care; (3) Increase permanency for children in foster care; (4) Reduce time in foster care to reunification without increasing reentry; (5) Reduce time in foster care to adoption; (6) Increase placement stability; and (7) Reduce placements of young children in group homes or institutions. The outcomes reflect widely accepted performance objectives for child welfare practice. They were established by the Department in consultation with state and local child welfare agency administrators, child advocacy organizations, child welfare researchers, State legislators, and other experts in the child welfare field. The Child Welfare Outcomes Reports are designed to inform Congress, the states, and the public about state performance on key child welfare outcomes and change in performance over time. The underlying goal of the reports is to promote continuous improvement in the outcomes experienced by children served by child welfare systems throughout the nation. Five appendixes are included: (1) Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89), Section 203(A); (2) Child Welfare Outcomes and Measures; (3) Data Sources and Data Elements; (4) Highlights of "Child Maltreatment 2005"; and (5) Annual AFCARS (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System) Report. (Contains 67 footnotes and 17 tables. Additional references, footnotes and tables are included on a state-by state basis.).

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309285151

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Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves-they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains-including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems-and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.

Author : Amy L. Gordon
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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The current climate of accountability, reduced fiscal spending, and managed care has heightened the need to demonstrate the effectiveness of the child welfare system. This monograph presents an overview of initiatives that have been undertaken to promote outcome measurement and performance management in the field of child care, highlighting initiatives at a variety of levels of the system. Chapters 1 and 2 provide information on several initiatives of the Child Welfare League of America and other private national agencies. Chapter 3 presents university-based outcomes-related activities and research. Chapter 4 highlights a sample of state initiatives in Colorado, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Texas; county and city efforts are summarized in Chapter 5. Chapter 6 describes the activities of individual agencies to improve the outcomes for the children and families they serve. The monograph concludes by noting that although outcome measurement has become an integral part of the child welfare field, its impact on the performance of the child welfare system remains to be seen. Contains 58 references. (KB)