“For young adults in the general population, maintaining close bonds to parental figures and being able to rely on them in times of need...

Disparities in foster care reunification do not match the disparities for child removal.

There has been a 147% increase in foster care entries due to parental drug use even as other reasons for child removal have declined.

A study published in 2018 identified certain foster care characteristics that are associated with later psychological problems. The...

A pair of longitudinal studies published in 2017 demonstrate both the complexity of implementing trauma systems therapy (TST) in child...

“Predictive analytics refers to the practice of extracting information from existing data sets and identifying patterns that may help to...

A May 2018 study titled, “The role of school climate in rates of depression and suicidal ideation among school-attending foster youth in...

A study published in 2018, “Characteristics of Foster Care History as Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders Among Youth in Care” by...

A small 2015 study examined how child welfare workers in England, Norway, and California (USA) assessed emotional bonding as a risk...

In Spring 2017, Advances in Social Work published an article titled, “Identifying Trauma-Related and Mental Health Needs: The...

In a study published in 2018, researchers did an outcome evaluation of Bay Area Youth Center’s Real Alternatives for Adolescents (RAFA)...

Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago recently released its 3rd Wave report on California’s extended foster youth program, called...

In July 2018, The Journal of Public Child Welfare, published “Exploring trauma-informed practice in public child welfare through...

Three studies on permanency outcomes for children adopted or placed in guardianship from the foster care system all found that multiple...

In 2017, researchers published a study that found more than 50% of 2,241 youth ages 17-24 accessing homeless services in San Francisco...

An article published in 2014 looked at a three-year program to recruit, train and support MSW students as Court Appointed Special...

A study published in 2015 looked at how poly-victimization impacted girls in the criminal justice system. This information is...

The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) recently released “Trauma-Informed Care in Short-Term Residential...

A 2016 study looked at the relationship between abuse and youth outcomes in relation to whether the abuse was self-reported or reported...

It has been well established that foster youth have dismal educational outcomes. Less than half graduate from high school. Only 11.8% of...