Child Welfare Research

We link to research on diligent recruitment, recidivism, crossover with delinquency, and more.

• Family Finding for Different Child Welfare Populations
  The family finding model, which child welfare agencies may use to identify and locate extended family members for children and youth in foster care, can be implemented at any point in a child's...
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• Evaluation of Wendy's Wonderful Kids Released
  Findings from a 5-year evaluation of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption's Wendy's Wonderful Kids program are available, and results show overwhelmingly that foster children served by the...
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• Delinquent Referrals and Maltreatment Histories
  The inaugural issue of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's (OJJDP's) Journal of Juvenile Justice features the article "Missouri's Crossover Youth: Examining the...
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• Characteristics of Rereport Risk Factors
  A recent article in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, "Recidivism in the Child Protection System," explores possible risk clusters and characteristics associated with...
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• New IFPS Survey Available
  Intensive Family Preservation Services (IFPS) are used to support families in crises in which children have been removed or are at-risk of removal from their families because of maltreatment. IFPS...
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