Child Welfare

Submitted to:Department of Health and Human ServicesAssistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: Westat Chapin Hall Center for Children James Bell Associates

Issue Papers on Foster Care and Adoption Adoption Dynamics: The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act by Fred H. Wulczyn Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago August, 2002

Prepared under contract to ASPE, with funding from ACF by: Freya Sonenstein, Karin Malm, and Amy Billing The Urban Institute

  by: Charles J. Lieberman, Vanessa Lindler, and Margaret OBrien-Strain Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Submitted by: The SPHERE Institute

Contents Parenting Family Formation Fertility Conclusion The great majority of Americans will become parents at some point in their lives.

Contents Overview:  Project Objectives, Operations, and Key Concerns Overview of Technical Assistance to States Key Project Products and Publications Communicating the Results and Lessons Learned from the Child Indicators Project

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

Recent fiscal reform initiatives have attempted to address some of the seemingly chronic problems of the child welfare system in the United States. This report describes how states are implementing fiscal reforms to contain costs or improve system performance. It also identifies issues that the implementation of fiscal reforms faces and describes how well fiscal reforms appear to be working.