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MDRC, 2020
The skills and abilities children develop in their earliest years lay the foundation for their future well-being. Likewise, early negative experiences can undermine them in later life. Parents play a central role in shaping their children's development, so helping them overcome their own sources of stress is a powerful way to improve how families…
Descriptors: Research Needs, Home Visits, Integrated Services, Young Children
Casanueva, Cecilia; Harris, Sarah; Carr, Christine; Burfeind, Chelsea; Smith, Keith – ZERO TO THREE, 2018
The Safe Babies Court Team™ (SBCT) is a community engagement and systems-change approach focused on improving how courts, child welfare agencies, and related child-serving organizations work together, share information, and expedite services for young children in the child welfare system. Ten sites across four states received technical assistance…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Social Services
VanHout, Samantha; Fitzgibbons, Sarah C.; Russotti, Alana – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
This article describes an infant and early childhood mental health-informed therapeutic visitation program that offers clinical support, systems-level advocacy, and developmentally appropriate guidance to families navigating the child welfare and family court systems. The program offers treatment, permanency, and placement planning for infants,…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Infants, Toddlers, Young Children
Auspos, Patricia – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2017
An integrated data system (IDS) that links information from separate administrative data systems offers policymakers, program administrators and researchers a powerful tool to analyze interactive effects across systems and make more informed decisions to improve outcomes for vulnerable families. This case study discusses how two states (Washington…
Descriptors: Data Use, Child Welfare, Foster Care, Family Programs
Auspos, Patricia – Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2017
With the emergence of "pay for success" programs, state and local governments have new opportunities to align services and demonstrate how service delivery investments in one system can improve outcomes in others and potentially save money. Integrated data systems that track individuals and families across different agencies are proving…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Child Welfare, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Klein, Sacha – US Department of Health and Human Services, 2016
Young children birth through five years old in the United States are more likely to experience child maltreatment, subsequent child welfare system (CWS) involvement, negative developmental outcomes, and serious maltreatment-related injuries and death than older children. This research-to-practice brief provides a model for how early care and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Welfare, Child Care, Early Childhood Education
Vandivere, Sharon; Malm, Karin – Child Trends, 2015
This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report, "Family Finding Evaluations: A Summary of Recent Findings. Publication #2015-01," and is an added resource for further information. The report reviews the results from 13 evaluations of Family Finding. The Family Finding model provides child welfare…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Barriers, Family Relationship, Child Welfare
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Mildon, Robyn; Shlonsky, Aron – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
To maximize benefits to children and their families, effective practices need to be used competently in child welfare settings. Since the 1990s, researchers and policy makers have focused attention on empirically supported interventions (ESIs). Much less attention has been paid to what is needed to implement these in a range of real-world…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Intervention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Redmond, Phil; Mabry, Rhett; Ball, Heather; Wilson, Dawn; Brandes, Beth; Metz, Allison; Malm, Karin – Child Trends, 2012
This is the first brief in a series, "Building a Post-Care Service System in Child Welfare: Lessons Learned from the Frontlines of Implementation Science in Catawba County." This brief sets the stage for a three-part series on the Catawba County Child Wellbeing Project by describing the Project's origins and historical context. Topics…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Child Welfare, Program Effectiveness, Counties
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Cross, Suzanne L.; Drywater-Whitekiller, Virginia; Holder, Lea Ann; Norris, Debra; Caringi, James; Trautman, Ashley – Journal of Social Work Education, 2015
Twelve universities and one American Indian (AI) tribal college were selected for the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute's 5-year stipend traineeship program. These tribal traineeships were designed to provide social work child welfare education for tribal and nontribal students. Twenty-two AI students and 58 nontribal students completed a…
Descriptors: Trainees, Student Diversity, Child Welfare, American Indian Education
Wilson, Dawn; Brandes, Beth; Ball, Heather; Malm, Karin – Child Trends, 2012
This is the third brief in a series: "Building a Post-Care Service System in Child Welfare: Lessons Learned from the Frontlines of Implementation Science in Catawba County." The first of the three briefs provided background information on the initiative that is the focus of the series--the Catawba County Child Wellbeing Project. Both…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Child Welfare, Program Effectiveness, Counties
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Collins-Camargo, Crystal; Millar, Kenneth – Child Welfare, 2012
This article describes qualitative findings regarding lessons learned from research and demonstration projects in four states focused on the implementation of clinical supervision within their public child welfare agencies. This was part of a larger mixed methods study of the effectiveness of these new clinical supervision models on practice,…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Public Agencies, Supervision, Welfare Services
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Dettlaff, Alan J.; Fong, Rowena – Child Welfare, 2011
As the population of the United States has changed over the last two decades, so has the population of children who come to the attention of the child welfare system, resulting in increasing calls for cultural competence in all aspects of child welfare programming and practice. Given the changing demographics among children involved in the child…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Cultural Awareness, Program Evaluation, Child Abuse
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, 2012
The increasing ability of social policy researchers to conduct randomized controlled trials (RCTs) at low cost could revolutionize the field of performance-based government. RCTs are widely judged to be the most credible method of evaluating whether a social program is effective, overcoming the demonstrated inability of other, more common methods…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Evidence, Costs, Researchers
Dubowitz, Howard – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
Child maltreatment affects millions of children each year. health care providers are increasingly called upon to address such psychosocial problems facing many families. In this article, the authors describe a practical approach to further enhance pediatric primary care and make it more responsive to the needs of children and families. The Safe…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Well Being, Primary Health Care
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