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The current study aims to evaluate relationships between child victimization and child resilience with a particular focus on caregiver and family promotive factors.
This literature review examined the extent to which the US child welfare system acts as an informal income maintenance programme.
This exploratory study provides early research to understand the relationship between levels of meaning-making and well-being in kinship caregivers.
This treatment-process research aims to (1) identify profiles of families participating in intensive family intervention programs, based on youth and family characteristics and (2) compare the intervention received by families with different clinical profiles.
This study sought to better understand the relationship between homelessness and child welfare services (CWS) involvement and examine whether homeless shelter data could combine with CWS data to enhance intervention targeting.
The authors of this article sought to better understand the relationship between homelessness and child welfare services (CWS) involvement and examine whether homeless shelter data could combine with CWS data to enhance intervention targeting.
This paper explores within group differences for Mexican and Puerto Rican mothers vulnerable to child welfare involvement.
this study examines the relationship between needs, matched services, and child protective services (CPS) re-report.
This study aims to answer two research questions: a) How do youth and staff/professionals define/conceptualize authentic youth engagement (AYE)? and b) What are youths’ and staff/professionals’ recommended strategies for authentically engaging youth? Thirty stakeholder interviews (15 youth, 15 staff/professionals) and 81 surveys (46 youth, 35 staff/professionals) were completed.
Using data from the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study, the criminal offending trajectories of 678 incarcerated youth were examined. A history of foster care predicted membership in a high rate chronic offending trajectory.