Early Childhood and Child Welfare

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

In addition to establishing the objective of preventing placements, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 called for the reunification of children in foster care with their biological parents whenever possible, within the larger context of efforts to achieve permanent and safe living conditions for children. Yet, the issue of famil

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

Family preservation programs have been promoted as a way to save costs on foster care. Claims of cost savings based on non- experimental studies must assume that most of the families who receive intensive, home-based services would have required placement in the absence of these services. The costs of intensive services are then compared with esti

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Program Effects on Child and Family Functioning

Several studies examined effects of services on measures of family functioning. 33 Some studies have simply examined change in these measures over time, but change can often be explained by maturation, statistical regression, and a host of external influences. Hence, we are interested in comparing the status of the treatment group following servi

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Prevention of Subsequent Child Maltreatment

The hope in family preservation programs is to prevent the placement of children without subsequent maltreatment. Few studies have examined the effects of family preservation programs on the recurrence of child maltreatment. Obviously, it is impossible to detect all maltreatment of children, so researchers have generally depended on reported incid

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

Although many non-experimental studies have suggested that high percentages of families remain intact after intensive family preservation services, the results of randomized experiments provide more convincing tests of the extent to which "placement prevention rates" can be attributed to the effects of these programs. The findings of the controlle

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Relationships between Service Characteristics and Placement

Several studies have examined correlations between service characteristics and placement outcomes. For example, Yuan et al. (1990) found that placement was more likely among families who received less intensive family preservation services. Nelson et al. (1988) reported that placement rates were lower in programs that offered more focused, shorter

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. More Recent Experimental Studies

California's AB 1562 In-home Care Demonstration Project, in operation in eight counties from 1986 to 1989, was an intensive, in-home services program. Cases thought to involve "imminent risk of placement" due to abuse or neglect were referred by county child protective services offices. 20 Families were served for an average of 7 weeks in progra

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Early Experimental Studies

In the studies reviewed so far, rates of placement in the groups provided family preservation services were quite low. However, we cannot conclude from these results that the services were the cause of the low rates of placement. The reason for this is that we cannot be sure what would have happened to these cases in the absence of services. To de

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Overflow Designs

Overflow designs, in which a comparison group is composed of cases not served because programs are full, provide information about effects that is somewhat better than single group or non- comparable group designs. We review four such studies here.

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Non-experimental Studies

Many early evaluations of programs designed to prevent placement used non-experimental designs in which groups receiving these services were followed without comparing them to other groups or in which nonequivalent comparison groups were used. 5 The studies of only groups receiving services appear to have had implicit "phantom" nontreatment cont

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs. Placement Prevention

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

As indicated in the companion paper on current family preservation programs, one of the most striking features of these efforts is their diversity. They vary on a number of dimensions, including the extent to which the focus is on placement prevention versus other goals, such as the improvement of family functioning. 2 There is also variation in

A Synthesis of Research on Family Preservation and Family Reunification Programs

by Julia H. Littell and John R. Schuerman Westat, Inc., in association with James Bell Associates, and the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago. A part of the National Evaluation of Family Preservation Servcies For the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health and Human Servi

The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services The Federal Role in Foster Care: A Paper on Current Priority Issue Areas Karl Ensign U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation September 1989 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/frfoscar.pdf (45 PDF

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Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An Analysis of the SIPP Data Base

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Usage of Different Kinds of Child Care: An Analysis of the SIPP Data Base Lorelei R. Brush, Ph.D. Analysis, Research and Training October 14, 1987 PDF Version: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/ccusage.pdf (45 PDF pages)

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An Evaluability Assessment of Child Care Options for Work-Welfare Programs

MAXIMUS, Inc. April 1988 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-85-0004 between HHS's Office of Social Services Policy (now the Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy) and MAXIMUS, Inc. For additional information about this subject, you can visit the ASPE home page at http://aspe.hhs.gov. The Project Officer was Sha

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. Appendix F: Bibliography

AcademyHealth (2004). Improving Federal health data for coverage and access policy development needs. Washington, DC. Alperstein, G., Rappaport, C., and Flanigan, J. (1988). Health problems of homeless children in New York City. American Journal of Public Health , 78, 1232-1233. Arrigo, B. (1998). The “modest needs” homeless families. Adm

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. E.3 Measuring Household Income and Poverty Sample

As noted in the report, two samples of families from the Fragile Families dataset were selected for re-analysis. An initial sample was limited to families where the mother is 18 years of age or older and has a household income at their Year 1 interview at or below the national poverty threshold based on the year of their interview (1999 through 20

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. E.2 Overview of Fragile Families Data Set

Fragile Families and Child Well-being Study Conducted by Princeton University’s Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and Columbia University’s Social Indicators Survey Center Principal Investigators: Sara McLanahan, Irwin Garfinkel, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Christina Paxson

Characteristics and Dynamics of Homeless Families with Children. E.1 Outcome Tables for Fragile Families Data Set

Table E-1. Demographic and background characteristics households at least 50 percent below poverty line Stably Significant Group Comparisons Stable At Risk Dbld Housed

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