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Interim Report to the Congress on the Feasibility

Interim Report to the Congress on the Feasibility of a National Child Abuse Registry

Interim Report to the Congress on the Feasibility of a National Child Abuse Registry May 2009 By: Laura Radel Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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National Survey of Adoptive Parents (NSAP)

National Survey of Adoptive Parents (NSAP)

The National Survey of Adoptive Parents (NSAP) is the first large, nationally representative survey of adoptive families of all adoption types. The survey about families’ adoption experiences was sponsored by several agencies within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was fielded as a telephone survey during 2007-2008. A seconda
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Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare

Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare Services

Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Ensuring Quality in Contracted Child Welfare Services Topical Paper #6 December 2008 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (
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Preparing Effective Contracts in Privatized Child

Preparing Effective Contracts in Privatized Child Welfare Systems

Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Preparing Effective Contracts in Privatized Child Welfare Systems Topical Paper #5 August 2008 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluati
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Evaluating Privatized Child Welfare Programs: A

Evaluating Privatized Child Welfare Programs: A Guide for Program Managers

    Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Evaluating Privatized Child Welfare Programs: A Guide for Program Managers Topica Paper #4 August 2008 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary f
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Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in

Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in Privatized Child Welfare Systems

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in Privatized Child Welfare Systems Topical Paper #3 March 2008 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for
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Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child

Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Topical Paper #2 December 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secret
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Assessing Site Readiness: Considerations about

Assessing Site Readiness: Considerations about Transitioning to a Privatized Child Welfare System

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Assessing Site Readiness: Considerations about Transitioning to a Privatized Child Welfare System Topical Paper #1 September 2007 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of
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From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration

From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities

From Prison to Home: The Effect of Incarceration on Children, Families, and Communities Conference Report Prepared for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) By: The Urban Institute: Ma
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Foster Care for Children and Adults with

Foster Care for Children and Adults with Handicaps: Child Welfare and Adult Social Services Final Report

Bradley K. Hill, K. Charlie Lakin, Angela R. Novak and Carolyn C. White University of Minnesota, Center for Residential and Community Services October 1987 PDF Version: /daltcp/reports/fosteres.pdf (70 PDF pages)
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Male Perpetrators of Child Maltreatment: Findings

Male Perpetrators of Child Maltreatment: Findings from NCANDS

Contents Introduction Previous Research on Male Perpetrators Research on Fathers and Child Well-Being The Objective of This Study Methodology Creation of the Unique Perpetrator Database Limitations to Analyses of These Data Findings
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Frequently Asked Questions About Child-Only Cases

Frequently Asked Questions About Child-Only Cases

Frequently Asked Questions About Child-Only Cases
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Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies to Address

Efforts by Child Welfare Agencies to Address Domestic Violence: The Experiences of Five Communities

Laudan Y. Aron and Krista K. Olson The Urban Institute March 1997 The research reported here was prepared under contract with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, with additional support from the Office of Community Services and the National Institute of Justice.
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Review of Family Preservation and Family

Review of Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs

A REVIEW OF FAMILY PRESERVATION AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION PROGRAMS By Westat, Inc. in association with James Bell Associates, Inc., and The Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago May 30, 1995 For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services TAB
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Evaluation of Family Preservation and

Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs: Overview

Conducted from 1994 through 2002, the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs was intended to evaluate rigorously programs designed to prevent the placement of children in foster care when it can be avoided. A related effort to reunify families who had at least one child placed in foster care was also evaluated, and related
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Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption

During 2001 and 2002, several data analyses on foster care and adoption issues were conducted for ASPE based on the Multi-State Foster Care Data Archive maintained by the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. The following papers are available in this series:
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Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services:

Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Literature Review

Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Service: Family Needs, Program Models, and Evaluation Issues Literature Review Submitted to: Laura Feig Radel Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, DC 20201 Developed
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Self-Sufficiency of Former Foster Youth in

Self-Sufficiency of Former Foster Youth in Wisconsin

Amy Dworsky and Mark E. Courtney Institute for Research on Poverty University of Wisconsin-Madison December 2000 A report prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs:

Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs: Methods Developed for the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs

Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Estimating Child Welfare Service Costs: Methods Developed for the Evaluation of Family Preservation and Reunification Programs Submitted to: Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: Westat, Inc. Chapin Hall Cent
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Other demographic and socio-economic

Adoption USA. A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents. Other demographic and socio-economic characteristics

In this section we examine additional demographic and socio-economic characteristics. The indicators here include children’s current ages, whether children’s parents have a spouse or partner, parents’ current ages, the age gap between parent (or spouse/partner of parent, whichever is smaller) and child, the education of the parent with the h

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