This study assesses whether LGBTQ youth are overrepresented in unstable housing and foster care and examines disparities in school functioning, substance use, and mental health for LGBTQ youth versus heterosexual youth in unstable housing and foster care.

The purpose of this action research study was to investigate social workers’ perceptions of the problems that prevent successful family reunifications after foster care. The study explored social workers’ perceptions of barriers that prevent family reunifications in central Mississippi, USA.

The Call for Abstracts for the 2019 US National Child Welfare Evaluation Summit is broad and inclusive. Any proposal that substantively contributes to one or more of the three primary goals—building evidence, strengthening practice, and informing policy—will be considered.

This study examined the effect of privatization policy on the issue of racial disparity in the child welfare system.

In this exploratory study, through use of an online anonymous survey, local county child welfare caseworkers were asked to self-rate their knowledge of, exposure to, and comfort levels with children with developmental disabilities.

This report turns the lens on young people who age out of foster care and explores four areas — education, early parenthood, homelessness and incarceration — where they fare worse than their general population peers in the US.

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of Child Protective Services (CPS) reports during early childhood and substantiated investigations during childhood for children living in different types of neighborhoods.

Using a two-study design, this study tests whether sexual minority youth are overrepresented in child welfare, foster care, and out-of-home placement using nationally representative data from the United States.

This study compared American and Chinese caregiving grandparents regarding variables reflecting challenges and resources in dealing with the demands of raising a grandchild.

Using a pooled data set of two waves of the National Surveys of Children’s Exposure to Violence, this study investigates links between indicators of socioeconomic resources and lifetime exposure to two different forms of child neglect (physical and supervisory), examines how neglect is associated with the risk of other types of victimization, and estimates the impact of neglect on trauma symptoms.