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Assessing Child Welfare Privatization Efforts (Project)
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Organization(s): Pal-Tech
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This project identified key issues and challenges surrounding the privatization of child welfare services, developed issue papers intended to assist state and local child welfare agencies consider how their initiatives will address these issues, and developed options for future research that will better inform future child welfare privatization efforts. Through targeted literature reviews, meetings, and conference calls with knowledgeable state and local officials, researchers, and others, information was gathered and synthesized in a series of papers on key topics. One paper concentrates on research gaps and identifies potential options to address them. Others lay out key choices and decision points in shifting from a public to a private system, and the implications and effects on clients as well as on both public and private agency roles and operations. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2006
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Child Welfare Fathers Follow-Up (Project)
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Organization(s): Urban Institute
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This project will fund the acquisition and analysis of administrative data regarding case outcomes for children included in ASPE's study of fathers' involvement in child welfare services and permanency planning, now nearing completion. Its intent is to understand whether caseworkers' success in identifying, locating and involving nonresident fathers (as reported in the April 2006 report What About the Dads?) is related to improved case outcomes for the children. The original study, which collected data through interviews with caseworkers in 2004, could not look at case outcomes because all the children were still in foster care at the time of the interviews. The contractor will include additional data at this time to look at case outcomes nearly two years after the baseline. All four states that participated in the original study (Arizona, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Tennessee) have agreed to provide administrative data for the follow-up. |
Completed;
Year Funded: 2006
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Related Products:
- More About the Dads:
Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes
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Using Vouchers to Expand Client Choice of Social Service Providers (Project)
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Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research
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Vouchers have been an established practice in some programs and a new indirect funding mechanism in others. It expands client choice of services including choice of faith-based providers. This project identifies the range of social service programs that use vouchers and assesses their effectiveness in delivering services that meet client needs. Issues include types of benefits and services for which indirect funding is feasible and efficient; how best to ensure a range of service options, the extent to which voucher programs bring more religiously intensive providers into the social services arena, and the effect of the funding strategy on organizational sustainability. Other issues examined include how programs use vouchers, the target populations, service delivery and administrative structures, and the transition from direct to indirect funding. HHS programs that use vouchers are described and then a subset of them are examined in more detail at the ground level. Products include a descriptive report, case studies, and a shorter synthesis of the findings (Posted as they become available.). |
Completed;
Year Funded: 2006
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Developmental Needs of Children Investigated by Child Protective Services (Project)
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Organization(s): ISED Solutions
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New legislative mandates require that child protection agencies refer all children on whom child maltreatment investigations are conducted to early intervention programs for evaluation. This project examines detailed developmental data on this population, explores whether there are key markers for developmental problems that woudl be useful programmatically, and looks at what sorts of services children are already receiving. This project takes advantage of data that has recently become available from ACF's National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being to examine factors related to the developmental status of children who have been the subject of child protection investigations. |
Completed;
Year Funded: 2005
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National Survey of Adoptive Parents (Project)
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Organization(s): National Center for Health Statistics
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This project continues work begun in FY2005 to develop and field a survey on the experiences of families who have adopted children from foster care and other sources. It examines the factors that facilitate or hinder the success of adoptions. It will also look at the post-adoption supports that are needed to assure the well-being of adopted children, and how the well-being and service needs of children adopted from foster care compare with other types of adoption. The project is an add-on to the planned 2007 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH), being fielded by the National Center for Health Statistics. FY2005 funds ensured that the NSCH will be able to identify children from this national sample who were adopted from foster care (anticipate to number 500+), as well as international and private domestic adoptions. FY2006 funds will be used to obtain OMB clearance of the survey instrument, to conduct pre-testing, and to begin fielding the survey. ACF/Children's Bureau is co-funding the study. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2005
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Colorado Kid Connects State Innovation Grant (Project)
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Organization(s): Colorado Dept. of Human Services
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Kid Connects provides mental health consultation and health care screenings for young children in child care centers and family child care homes. Kid Connects builds upon the success of the early intervention pilots. A three year STATE INNOVATION grant by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) was awarded to the Colorado Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2004
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Analysis of Social and Economic Conditions in Rural Areas (Project)
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Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research
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The project includes three main components: (1) background report on rural conditions and trends; (2) literature review of three human service conditions in rural areas: substance abuse, work supports for low income families and child welfare; and (3) compilation of sources for rural data pertaining to the above three areas. The compilation of sources for rural human services data will identify the full range of data sources appropriate for rural research (from national surveys to state administrative data) that include information on human services, summarize the content of each database, and identify any requirements researchers must meet in order to have access to this data. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2003
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Augmenting the Early Childhood Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study (ECLS-B) (Project)
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The Department of Education's Early Childhood Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study (ECLS-B) is the nation's first study of a representative sample of over 10,000 children from birth through age five (or longer). ASPE funds will continue to support a focus on strengthening one or more of the following areas: measuring policy contexts at state and possibly local levels, expanding the sample of fathers to include non-resident fathers, supporting sample retention for low-income children, and/or addressing measurement issues for minority children. The omission of non-resident fathers would leave a major gap in the knowledge base for understanding basic developmental processes and for understanding a group of children and families of key interest in policy, especially poor children in minority families. The study is proceeding well, but has had to overcome a number of early design and measurement hurdles to satisfy state review boards and pilot test instruments. These changes have resulted in overall increased costs being shared by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and study partners. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2003
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Collaborations to Address Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment: A Public-Private Initiative (Project)
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Organization(s): National Institute of Justice
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This project supports the continued evaluation of a multi-agency demonstration project that is addressing the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child maltreatment. The evaluation is designed to assess whether child protection agencies, child maltreatment courts, and domestic violence programs can, by participating with others in multi-disciplinary, community-based collaborations, achieve significant organizational change that helps children and parents in abusive families to become safer and more stable. Several analytical approaches are employed including network analysis and pre-post evidence of changes in agency practice. The national evaluation documents changes that take place and studies factors that contribute to project outcomes. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2003
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Community Alternatives to Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbances (Project)
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Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research
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The purpose of this project is to: understand barriers that impede the ability of states to develop community alternatives to psychiatric residential treatment facilities for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances (SEDs); identify the creative ways that states have developed these alternatives, including a description of the supports and services they provide; and portray how states have organized available federal, state and local funding for community alternatives for children with serious emotional disturbances who would otherwise be in psychiatric residential treatment facilities. This information will be used by the Federal Government to design, enhance, and/or administer programs, which provide community services as an alternative to psychiatric residential treatment for children and youth with serious emotional disturbances. |
Ongoing;
Year Funded: 2003
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