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Given social workers' essential connection to child welfare work and the importance of field day training to both worker retention and client wellbeing, this study used a theories of transfer framework and qualitative interviews with...
Adolescents, and especially male adolescents, make up a disproportionately smaller portion of maltreatment reports compared to younger children. This study used the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) to better...
Child welfare policies and practices are changing to allow more youth to remain in care beyond age 18. Yet, the majority of youth do not stay. Given recent evidence suggesting that remaining in care may be beneficial, there is a need to...
Background: Youth aging out of the child welfare system become parents at rates two to three times higher than their non-child welfare system involved peers. Substantial literature acknowledges that youth aging out who are parenting are...
Background: The research process within prisons has largely considered researchers’ perspectives. Only one known study explicitly examined incarcerated persons’ perceptions and no known studies have explored incarcerated persons’...
Introduction: High stress, short job tenures, and high turnover rates signify the importance of understanding recently-hired frontline child welfare workers’ experiences to improve worker well-being and workforce stability. Kalleberg’s ...
Youth “aging out” of foster care experience higher rates of adolescent parenting than their peers who have not been in care. Due to their history of maltreatment, high adolescent pregnancy rates, and poor psychosocial outcomes, youth...
Each year, a significant number of adolescents become pregnant in the United States, with more than half of these pregnancies resulting in live births. Adolescent parenting is associated with poor outcomes, including increased risk of...
This qualitative study examines the perceptions of students enrolled in a campus-based program designed to promote academic success and retention of first generation college students. Method: Twenty-five undergraduate students in the...
Service-learning is a pedagogical approach that integrates students' classroom instruction with community experiences. This paper discusses qualitative results of a national survey examining service-learning in Council on Social Work...
Research often excludes youth participants, omitting their social and psychological realities, undermining their rights to participate and benefit from research, and weakening the validity of research. Researchers may be discouraged from...
Youth "age out" of the child welfare when they are no longer eligible for services due to their age. These youth often face hardships across multiple domains of their lives. Recent evidence shows youth remaining in care beyond age 18...
Adapting a Parenting Intervention for Parents Aging Out of the Child Welfare System: A Systematic Approach to Expand the Reach of an Evidence-Based Intervention
Parents aging out of the child welfare system face a constellation of unique risk factors that threaten the well-being of themselves and their children. Although parenting interventions are an important resource for providing much-needed...
Recently, there has been renewed concerns about the use of corporal punishment to discipline children in U.S. public schools. In March 2023, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona wrote an open letter to Governors, Chief State School...
Children have tremendous potential – which our society needs – and which we have a shared obligation to foster and protect. This includes educational opportunities for children in a safe, supportive, and productive school environment for...
Rates of pregnancy and parenthood among current and former foster youth are two to three times higher than non-foster youth peers. Repeat pregnancies among young mothers aging out of foster care also occur at higher rates than peers not...
In the child welfare workplace, accessible relationships and support, though understudied, are vital to worker success. Using telephone interviews with a statewide sample of recently-hired, frontline workers (N = 38), this study applied...
Introduction: High annual turnover (20-50%) reflects the challenging nature of child welfare frontline work. This article considers Lipsky’s (1980) concept of street-level bureaucracy to explain workers’ workplace transition. Methods: We...
Purpose. Young people with a history of foster care and or homelessness experience barriers to education and often have poorer educational outcomes. Universities have established campus support programs (CSP) to address these student...
Introduction: Academic enrichment programs seek to address the challenges first-generation students face, but research tends to focus on academic outcomes. This study investigates first-generation students’ perceptions of how a program...
Client-perpetrated violence (CPV) against child protective services (CPS) workers is prevalent and problematic for workers and clients leading to psychological distress, physical injury, and compromised service delivery. With...
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