Child Abuse, Neglect, and Family Preservation

Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare: An Introduction for Administrators and Policy Makers

This document introduces child welfare administrators and policy makers to the benefits and challenges faced in using predictive analytics to improve child welfare practice. It suggests questions that administrators and policy makers considering a predictive analytics effort can use to improve the likelihood that the effort will produce useful inf

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Predictive Analytics in Child Welfare: An Assessment of Current Efforts, Challenges and Opportunities

Child welfare agencies are interested in leveraging new and emerging techniques to help them harness data and technology to make dramatic improvements to child welfare practice and ultimately produce better outcomes for children and families. This document explores the state of the use of predictive analytics in child welfare by conducting an envi

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Pretesting a Human Trafficking Screening Tool in the Child Welfare and Runaway and Homeless Youth Systems

This report summarizes findings from a study to develop and pre-test a human trafficking screening tool with 617 youth in runaway and homeless youth (RHY) and child welfare (CW) settings. The tool was found to be accessible, easy to administer, and effective in identifying trafficked youth in these settings, though additional research is needed.

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Homeless Families Research Briefs

This project produced a series of research briefs on issues related to the well-being and economic self-sufficiency of families and children experiencing homelessness. The briefs are based on data collected as part of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Family Options Study, a multi-site random assignment experiment desi

Child and Partner Transitions among Families Experiencing Homelessness

New analysis of data from HUD's Family Options Study finds that about 30 percent of sheltered homeless families reported a separation from at least one family member. Family transitions continued in the following 20 months, with 10 percent of families experiencing new child separations and 8 percent reporting reunification with children who had no

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Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Final Report

The Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs, conducted between 1994 and 2002, studied four local programs providing services intended to improve family functioning and reduce unnecessary foster care placements. This traditional, experimental-design evaluation examined outcomes of sites that each used the popular HomeBuilders s

Rural Research Needs and Data Sources for Selected Human Services Topics

Prepared by: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Contents Research Summary (in PDF format )

Report to the Congress Presenting HHS's Response to the Recommendations of the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities

This statutorily mandated report to Congress responds for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to the many recommendations contained in the March 2016 final report of the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities. Overall, HHS heartily embraces the Commission's vision for a robust response to families in crisis: one th

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A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Tables

TABLE 1: SUMMARY OF NON-EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF FAMILY PRESERVATION PROGRAMS

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. References

Ahart, Ariel, Ruth Bruer, Carolun Rutsch, Richard Schmidt, and Susan Zaro (1992). Final Report: Intensive Foster Care Reunification Programs. Paper submitted to the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Macro International, Inc. Arizona Department of Economic Security, Division of Social S

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Sources

Statutes from each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia were the primary sources of information for this report. Each state’s statutes were accessed via the Internet—usually through the state legislature’s Website. As of this writing, all of the statutes were current through at least 2003. This report is not intended to be a legal

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Types of Laws

This report focuses on laws that criminalize voluntary sexual acts involving a minor that would be legal if not for the age of one or more of the participants. The report does not include laws where the legality of the sexual acts is dependent on the relationship of the participants (e.g., incest, sex between teachers and students or doctors and p

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Terminology

Unlike most rape laws, in which force is a key element of the offense, statutory rape laws assume that all sexual activities with individuals below a certain age are coercive, even if both parties believe their participation is voluntary. Generally, statutory rape laws define the age below which an individual is legally incapable of consenting to

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Endnotes

[2] The Alan Guttmacher Institute (1994). Sex and America’s Teenagers. New York.

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Methodology

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Project Description

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is concerned about the health of adolescents, including unwanted sexual contact at a young age. For example, research finds that:

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Introduction

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Acknowledgements

Work on this project was funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under a contract to The Lewin Group. This report benefited greatly from the oversight and input of Jerry Silverman, the ASPE Project Officer.

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Summary of Current State Laws

The Complexities of Kinship Care: Key Findings from the 2013 National Survey of Children in Nonparental Care

This is a one page summary of a report published in May 2016. The summary presents key takeaway messages from the report which describes the characteristics and experiences of the approximately 2.3 million U.S. children who live with neither biological nor adoptive parents. Analyses are based on the 2013 National Survey of Children in Nonparenta

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