Posts Tagged ‘ research ’

September 06, 2012 - Lots of great research and practice recommendations were released over the summer, including two new reports from NYC: Guide to Working with Young Parents in Out of Home Care, and Meeting the Educational Needs of Students in the Child Welfare System: Lessons from the Field, and two new memoranda from ACYF on Promoting the Safe, Appropriate, and Effective Use of Psychotropic Medication for Children in Foster Care and Promoting Social and Emotional Well-Being...Read more »

July 24, 2012 - The July 19 edition of the data advisory from Kidsdata.org provides an overview of four major data trends in foster care in California. In the words of the press release, "California is at a critical policy juncture in terms of ensuring better outcomes for children and youth in foster care, particularly for transition-age youth entering adulthood." In examining detailed data on the 56,000 children and youth currently in foster care in the Golden State,...Read more »

July 24, 2012 - FYA Member WestCoast Children's Clinic has just released its first research brief, "Research to Action: Sexually Exploited Minors Needs and Strengths." This white paper is based on two years of data from WestCoast's work with Sexually Exploited Minors in Oakland and Alameda County. In their own words: "Our Research-to-Action project brings us one step closer to understanding the characteristics of sexually exploited youth and the effects of exploitation on their mental...Read more »

May 31, 2012 - The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at Hunter College in NYC has publicized a ton of new research in the past couple weeks: They've recently updated their report on Sibling Placement: The Importance of the Sibling Relationship for Children in Foster Care which includes research, facts and statistics, best practices, and emerging issues. The American Bar Association has developed a new brief on how the IDEA and Fostering Connections Acts...Read more »

March 14, 2012 - Georgetown Public Policy Institute’s Center for Juvenile Justice Reform (CJJR) recently published this paper, which aims to provide a framework for jurisdictions to utilize in their efforts to better serve youth known to both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems—commonly referred to as crossover or dually-involved youth. Researchers have been working to better understand the trajectory many crossover youth follow between systems and into adulthood. As...Read more »

March 14, 2012 - The National Resource Center for Youth Development (NRCYD) will host this webinar discussion to highlight strategies that have been found effective in locating and engaging youth formerly in foster care to participate in survey research, including lessons learned from the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth and the Chafee Independent Living Evaluation Project. DETAILS HERE.Read more »

February 07, 2012 - In a story covered extensively by national media, a new study published in the journal Pediatrics examined child abuse injuries among American children during the first year of life. In the most reported finding, the  study calculated a rate of 58.2 child-abuse-related hospital admissions per 100,000 children, compared to a rate of 50.0 admissions related to SIDS. Researchers found that nationwide 4,569 children under 18 in the hospital in 2006 of whom 300...Read more »

February 07, 2012 - In a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?, authors Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin focus on the effect of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), and note the significant negative economic impacts of crime. The authors "find that maltreatment approximately doubles the probability of engaging in many types of crime. ...Read more »

November 21, 2011 - On Monday, The New York Times published an article reflecting on recent research regarding the prescription of multiple psychotropic medications to youth in foster care. The study was published in the journal Pediatrics and finds that about 2% of foster children are prescribed powerful psychotropics generally used to treat serious adult mental illnesses, and that many youth are prescribed more than one powerful med at a time. One of the...Read more »

November 21, 2011 - New York City's Center for An Urban Future recently released an excellent report "Fostering Careers" examining the employment situation of youth aging out of New York's foster care system. Among its key findings are that nearly half of youth aging out are unemployed at any given time, and that 1 in 5 former foster youth enter a shelter within three years of aging out, of whom 4 out of 5 are parenting....Read more »