A5039218671- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Community Health and Development
- Digital Storytelling and Education
- Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments
- Cleft Lip and Palate Research
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Counseling Practices and Supervision
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
University of Kentucky
2019-2025
Mexican Social Security Institute
1991-2023
California University of Pennsylvania
2013-2020
Centro Médico Nacional La Raza
2020
Nottingham Trent University
2020
University of Pennsylvania
2011-2019
Instituto Nacional de Pediatria
1991
An intense appetite for reforming and transforming child welfare services in the United States is yielding many new initiatives. Vulnerable children families who become involved with clearly deserve higher quality more effective services. New policies, programs, practices should be built on sound evidence. Reforms based misunderstandings about what current data show may ultimately harm families. This review highlights 10 commonly held misconceptions which we assert are inconsistent best...
We used National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System Census data to examine Black–White Hispanic–White disparities in reporting, substantiation, out-of-home placement both descriptively from 2005–2019 multivariate models 2007–2017. also tracked contemporaneous social risk (e.g., child poverty) harm infant mortality) using non-child protective services (CPS) sources compared them CPS reporting rate disparities. were lower than found non-CPS benchmarks. Consistent with the Hispanic paradox,...
Abstract Scholars and advocates are at odds about how to achieve higher levels of child safety permanency. Calls for change include the recent upEND focus on eradication welfare services a radical refocusing present system towards prevention/early intervention. To clarify implications reform over abolition, we seek portray future in which abolition has occurred, juxtaposition maintaining four core elements established maltreatment programmes around world: (1) receiving responding community...
Current calls to end structural racism in the US include proposals abolish or radically transform child welfare services (CWS). While substantial research finds numerous poor outcomes following maltreatment, efficacy and acceptability of CWS, particularly for children color, has long sparked debate. This review summarizes state quantitative across seven domains overall by race with varying degrees CWS contact. adequate comparisons provides no robust evidence support idea that have worse from...
Little is known about system-involved fathers’ perceptions of parenting programs, and whether they believe focus on topics value. Service providers in family serving systems are positioned to refer fathers albeit their perspectives fatherhood also largely unexplored. To that end, 17 who recently graduated from the 24:7 Dad ® participated groups, whereas 24 service completed 1:1 semi-structured interviews. Thematic analyses revealed acceptability contingent upon two conditions: (1) curriculum...
Purpose: Indirect exposure to trauma can negatively impact the well-being of school personnel and students. The purpose this study is investigate role that individual, leadership organizational characteristics play in producing potential changes burnout secondary K -12 from baseline post informed care initiative. Methods: Data Professional Quality Life-5 (ProQOL-5), STS Scale (STSS) Informed Organizational Assessment (STSI-OA) was collected 205 (e.g. teachers, counselors, leaders other...
Objective: Conduct secondary data analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of Massachusetts’ Adolescent Outreach Program for Youths in Intensive Foster Care (Outreach) increasing social support (SS) among enrolled youth. Participants: 194 youth intensive foster care under guardianship Massachusetts Department Children and Families with a goal independent living (IL) or long-term substitute care, born between August 1985 December 1990 (67% female, 66% White, 27% Hispanic) participated study...
Abstract Objective This study sought to illuminate the barriers service providers experience in delivering healing services enhance father and child well‐being. Background Manifestations of structural barriers, such as racism, mother‐centric practices, disproportionate incarceration among Black Brown fathers prevail. Little is known, however, about how describe they encounter toward engaging equip them with capacity coparent effectively. Method A convenience sample ( n = 24) representing a...
Child welfare practitioners are confronted with the responsibility of relying on best practice to ensure children in foster care transition successfully into adulthood after leaving system. Yet, despite recent reforms and efforts address their needs, research clearly shows that alumni still more likely experience negative developmental outcomes compared adults general population. The purpose this study was better understand how child-serving systems adequately prepare racially diverse...
This study examined the prevalence of mental health and substance abuse disorders service utilization among a racially ethnically diverse group foster youth. Self-report data on symptoms receipt were used to identify whether groups adolescents defined by their race ethnicity equally likely receive services given presence or use disorder. Study findings showed that Caucasians are more than African Americans. Race was not significant predictor accessing services. Hispanic treatment...