Nearly 70 years after Milton Friedman first proposed K-12 education vouchers, students in Arizona, Iowa, Utah, West Virginia, and other states can customize their education using education savings accounts (ESAs). ESAs allow parents to spend public education funding on expenses such as private school tuition, tutoring, and homeschooling curricula.…

As part of their field education, social work students develop and implement change agent projects to influence positive change. Faculty and students, however, have identified a lack of placement options for Black students to allow them to both learn and feel supported in their racial identity. To ensure that Black students have placement options…

This study uses administrative data from the Wisconsin Court Record Database, linked with survey data collected from mothers (n= 789) and fathers (n= 690), to describe the living arrangements of children with sole mother and shared child physical placement following parental divorce. Contrary to prior research, results provide little evidence that…

This report was prepared for the Wisconsin State Legislative Council's Special Committee on Mental Health Issues. It summarizes legal issues and procedures relating to the admission, commitment, and treatment of the mentally ill in Wisconsin. Part I sets forth legal definitions of certain key mental health terms, including mental illness as it is…

This report presents information on Wisconsin state legislation dealing with mental health issues. Part I provides descriptions of key provisions of four 1987 state senate bills. Part II reviews the activities of the Wisconsin State Legislative Council's Special Committee on Mental Health Issues. Parts III, IV, V, and VI describe the background…

A total of 14 child placement prevention projects funded by the state of Wisconsin from 1983 to 1985 were evaluated. Data utilized in the evaluation pertained to 331 cases involving 826 children. All client data were collected from a series of assessment forms which requested monthly reporting by each family's social worker. Data about family and…

Four aspects of 478 residential care facilities for children and youth in Flordia, Wisconsin, and New Jersey were examined. In addition, GAO looked at records of 539 children to illuminate the issue of how individuals are placed in residential care. Aspects examined were: (1) characteristics of residential facilities; (2) funding sources for these…

The site visit report describes community living programs for persons with severe disabilities in the Wisconsin counties of Dane, LaCrosse, and Columbia. The visit attempted to identify and document promising practices through interviews with administrators, officials and staff; observations of three foster homes, two small group homes, and two…

This report provides findings from a study of families with newly opened cases served by Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare's Ongoing services program for children placed in out-of-home care. The Bureau is part of the Children's Services Division of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS). Specifically, the central goal of the…