This short research summary highlights findings to date from an ASPE study seeking to understand how states currently use treatment foster care to serve youth with serious emotional and behavioral disorders in the least restrictive possible setting.
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Advanced SearchThe Impact of Prevention: Maltreatment Re-reporting in Six States' Differential Response Systems
This is a one page summary of a research brief published in June 2016. The study sought to determine whether children in counties that more frequently use alternative responses to respond to child maltreatment reports are more or less likely to be re-reported to child protective services and/or confirmed to have been victims of subsequent abuse or neglect.
Family Interventions for Youth Experiencing or at Risk of Homelessness
Family conflict is a key driver of youth homelessness, and most programs serving youth experiencing homelessness use some form of family intervention to address conflict and help reconnect youth when appropriate.
Adolescent Well-Being after Experiencing Family Homelessness
New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study of adolescents’ experiences in shelter with their families and 20 months later shows that most adolescents continued to live with their families, and some continued to experience housing instability or live in overcrowded situations.
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Differential Response and the Safety of Children Reported to Child Protective Services: A Tale of Six States
Differential response (DR) is an increasingly common model for how child protective services agencies address reports of child maltreatment. Differential response systems seek to be less adversarial than traditional child protective services by separating incoming referrals into two (or more) tracks.
Children Living Apart from Their Parents: Highlights from the National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care
This paper highlights the characteristics and experiences of the approximately 2.3 million U.S. children who live with neither biological nor adoptive parents, but instead live with relatives or non-relatives in foster care or less formal arrangements outside the foster care system.
Health Coverage and Care for Reentering Men: What Difference Can It Make?
Many community-based organizations serving men coming out of the criminal justice system recognize that their clients have serious physical, mental, and behavioral health needs.
Are Homeless Families Connected to the Social Safety Net?
New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study of families' experiences in shelter and 20 months later shows that families experiencing homelessness are generally connected to public benefits at similar rates to other families in deep poverty.
Change in Father-child Relationships Before, During, and After Incarceration
Understanding what supports strong relationships formerly incarcerated men and their children could have an impact on individual, interpersonal, and community safety and well-being.