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Apr 15, 20181 min read

Female Foster Youth Most Likely to Run Away & Black Youth Least Likely to Find a Permanent Home

The Center for State Child Welfare Data at the University of Chicago Chapin Hall released “Understanding the Differences in How...

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Apr 8, 20182 min read

Older Foster Youth and Psychiatric Drug Usage

It has been well documented that foster youth have high rates of prescribed psychotropic drug use. Most of this research has focused on...

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Mar 25, 20182 min read

Fighting Racial Bias and Black Male Mentors Essential to Closing the Black-White Wage Gap

In a recently released study Harvard researchers determined that the black-white wage gap is the result of large differences in wages and...

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Mar 16, 20181 min read

Foster Youth Education Toolkit

Foster youth in California have dismal school outcomes. Two thirds will move schools at least twice during the school year compared with...

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Mar 4, 20182 min read

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Foster Youth Permanency Outcomes

A 2015 study found that youth represented by a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer were significantly more likely to have a...

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Feb 26, 20182 min read

Foster Youth Suspended at Five Times the Rate of Other Students

According to a report released Last week schools suspend foster youth five times more frequently than the average, and black male foster...

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Feb 19, 20182 min read

Foster Youth Unfairly Criminalized

The San Francisco Chronicle ran an article on the front page of the paper on Feb. 17, 2018 titled, “Girl’s undue jailing exemplifies...

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Feb 12, 20181 min read

5 Step Rating for Child Welfare Practices

The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC) is a vital resource for child welfare professionals who want to...

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Feb 5, 20181 min read

Expert in Treating Adverse Childhood Experiences to Speak in San Francisco

Dr. Nadine Burke Harris is a pediatrician and the CEO of The Center for Youth Wellness the in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunters Point. She...

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Jan 31, 201812 min read

Tribal v. Individual Rights in Adoption

This paper is an examination of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). In particular, it looks at the legal and cultural conflict...

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Jan 28, 20182 min read

The Impact of Civic Engagement in Adolescence on Adult Outcomes

Ballard, P.J., Hoyt, L.T. & Pachucki, M.C., Impacts of Adolescent and Young Adult Civic Engagement on Health and Socioeconomic Status in...

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Jan 22, 20181 min read

Are We Really Doing Good?

This power point explains why empirical research is as important in social science as it is for medical science. Although an intervention...

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Jan 16, 20181 min read

Government Database For Mental Health Treatment Frozen

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has maintained a database of evidence-based treatments for mental...

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Jan 15, 201815 min read

Literature Review of the Impact of Open Adoption on the Adoptee

This is a literature review of the empirical research on the impact of openness in adoption on adoptees placed in voluntary infant...

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Jan 8, 20182 min read

Working With Crossover Youth: Dependency and Delinquency

This brief examines the “role that Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) play in supporting crossover youth.The Center for Juvenile...

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Dec 28, 20171 min read

Neuroscience in Trauma Informed Care

This article discusses three neuroscience concepts that the researcher recommends be included in trauma-informed care programs. The...

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Dec 28, 20171 min read

Predictors of High School Completion and College Entry for Foster Youth

The most important points for from this study are the following: a. “the number of months youths spent in care after age 18 was...

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Dec 28, 20171 min read

How to Mitigate Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

Research shows that the stress of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as physical or emotional abuse or losing a parent to...

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Can the Bond between Foster Youth and Biological Parents Survive Termination of Parental Rights?

Dec 2, 2023

Are There Disparities in Reunification in Foster Care?

Nov 20, 2023

The Rise in Foster Care Placement Driven by Opioid Epidemic

Jul 17, 2019