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Impacts of the Heritage Keepers® Life Skills Education Component
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Final Report |
Author(s): Melissa Clark, Christopher Trenholm, Barbara Devaney, Justin Wheeler, and Lisa Quay |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) |
This report addresses one particular model for school-based abstinence education: a voluntary, character-based program — Life Skills Education — designed to enhance a mandatory core abstinence education component of the (Title V-funded) Heritage Keepers® Program serving middle and high school youth in Edgefield, South Carolina. The study examines the incremental impact of the Life Skills Education Component on youth already exposed to the other components of the Heritage Keepers® Program. It does not examine the impact of the full Heritage Keepers® Program. The study is based on a final follow-up survey conducted with 604 youth, 18 to 55 months after they began participating in the study, in three separate cohorts. |
Published: August, 2007 |
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Initial Findings Brief
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Organization(s): JBS International |
This brief gathers and synthesizes statistics and research related to risks for boys across multiple domains, identifies successful interventions, and offers concrete suggestions for how caring community members can help support boys in their adolescence and as they transition to adulthood. Research on mortality and victimization; delinquency and violence; substance abuse; education; and positive youth activities is included. This brief is based on a comprehensive review of scientific literature on the strengths and challenges that affect boys ages 10 through 18. |
Published: August, 2008 |
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Annotated Bibliography
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Organization(s): JBS International |
The Annotated Bibliography is the result of a comprehensive review of literature on the strengths and challenges that affect boys ages 10 through 18. It provides evidence-based work that highlights the challenges boys face and investigates what strengths, such as the positive impact that caring adults in families, schools, and communities, can have on the well-being of boys and young men. Research on mortality and victimization; delinquency and violence; substance abuse; education; employment; and positive youth activities is included. |
Published: August, 2008 |
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheets
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Organization(s): JBS International |
These Fact Sheets offer facts about boys in seven research areas, or domains: victimization and mortality, juvenile delinquency, substance abuse, mental health, education, employment, and constructive use of time. Also included are risk and protective factors that influence outcomes for boys in these domains. |
Published: August, 2008 |
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Starting Early: How the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative Helps Schools Prepare Young People for Healthy Marriages
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Author(s): Robin Dion and Tim Silman |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) |
This brief describes how the Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI) implemented relationship and marriage education classes in high schools across the state, and analyzes the key factors that made this implementation approach work. This is one in a series of briefs that will be issued as part of a process evaluation of the OMI. A comprehensive final report documenting the issues and implications around the program design choices made by Oklahoma will also be produced. [8 PDF pages] |
Published: June, 2008 |
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Treating the Hidden Wounds: Trauma Treatment and Mental Health Recovery for Victims of Human Trafficking
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Author(s): Heather J. Clawson, Amy Solomon, and Lisa Goldblatt Grace |
Organization(s): Caliber, an ICF International Company |
This Issue Brief focuses on the trauma experienced by most trafficking victims, its impact on health and well-being, some of the challenges to meeting trauma-related needs of trafficking victims, and promising approaches to treatment and recovery. While this issue brief touches on trauma across human trafficking populations, it has a special emphasis on trauma resulting from sex trafficking of women and girls. |
Published: March, 2008 |
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Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties
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Author(s): Jennifer Macomber, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, Dean Duncan, et. al. |
Organization(s): Urban Institute with subcontractors University of California Berkeley and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
A primary task for youth in transitioning to adulthood is sustaining employment to be self-sufficient. Studies of former youth who age out of foster care find that they generally experience unstable employment patterns and earn very low incomes between ages 18 and 20. However, less is known about whether these youthsÂ’ initial patterns of employment instability and low earnings persist. This study linked child welfare, Unemployment Insurance (UI) and TANF administrative data to assess employment outcomes for former youth through age 24 in three states: California, North Carolina, and Minnesota. Descriptive, multivariate, and trajectory analysis techniques are employed to describe employment patterns. Findings indicate that low rates of employment persist through age 24; Low earnings persist through age 24 though few receive TANF benefits; and youth show four patterns of connectedness to the workforce that may provide insights to program planners considering how to best tailor services to youthsÂ’ needs. |
Published: March, 2008 |
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Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in Privatized Child Welfare Systems
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Author(s): Elizabeth Lee and Cynthia Samples |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considered when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This third paper focuses on transitioning case management functions from public to private agencies as well as on how roles and responsibilities are shared and divided once privatization occurs. The paper is divided into four sections. The first section describes the history and complexity of defining privatization in child welfare services. The second section describes how some states have prepared their workforce for these new roles and responsibilities. The third section provides specific examples of how jurisdictions in seven states are dividing key case management activities for their out-of-home care population including initial case assessments, roles in dependency hearings, and ongoing case decision making. The final section describes the experience of a group of states that use private agencies to deliver foster care case management and have operational State Automated Child Welfare Information Systems. It presents some of the challenges faced by public and private agencies with their new information systems and offers examples of how states have facilitated the transition. |
Published: March, 2008 |
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More About the Dads:
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Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes |
Author(s): Karin Malm, Erica Zielewski, and Henry Chen |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This report is a follow-up to the study What About the Dads, published by ASPE and ACF in 2006. The original study examined child welfare agencies' efforts to identify, locate, and involve nonresident fathers of children in foster care. This report, using administrative data supplied by each of the states that participated in the original study, examines case outcomes for the children whose caseworkers were previously interviewed. At the time the data were extracted for this follow-up analysis, approximately two years had passed since the original interviews, and most of the children (75%) had exited foster care. These analyses use information from the original study about whether the father had been identified and contacted by the child welfare agency and about the contacted fathers' level of involvement with their children, combined with administrative data about case outcomes two years later, to explore three research questions: (1) Is nonresident father involvement associated with case length? (2) Is nonresident father involvement associated with foster care discharge outcomes? and (3) Is nonresident father involvement associated with subsequent child maltreatment allegations? |
Published: March, 2008 |
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Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives
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Author(s): Charlotte McCullough and Elizabeth Lee |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considering when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This second paper describes choices faced by agencies as they design child welfare privatization initiatives. It is primarily descriptive and is intended to illustrate how various existing initiatives have defined their target populations and program scope, as well as how they have structured payments and distributed financial risk. |
Published: December, 2007 |
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