Sentences with phrase «studied child welfare»

Eligible candidates have studied child welfare, ethics, and psychology.

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The Nurse - Family Partnership has been studied in three separate randomized controlled trials, which have shown positive effects on the mothers, including reduced incidence of child abuse, arrest, and welfare enrollment.

Strengthening Families Center for the Study of Social Policy Describes an initiative to prevent child abuse and neglect by helping child welfare and early education professionals enhance protective factors in children, youth, and families.

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

She added that careful supervision was provided during the study, to ensure the welfare of the children as well as the animals.

Many past studies have shown that a child's welfare use is correlated with a parent's welfare receipt.

The child welfare system is more likely to intervene in households in «less neighborly» neighborhoods and in which parents spank their kids, a new study shows.

In 1995 a landmark study found that children whose families were on welfare heard 1,500 fewer words every hour — or eight million fewer per year — than children from professional backgrounds.

The authors caution that their study was conducted in a country with strong social welfare supports and that while the sample overall was large, the number of children with many symptoms of ADHD was relatively small.

Think of farm animal welfare studies, studies on fish... EthoVision XT has even been used in autism research, tracking children!

The Harvard study is the first examination of child - care availability in middle class and low - income neighborhoods in Massachusetts, particularly those with high concentrations of welfare recipients and single mothers.

The study was produced by the End Child Poverty Coalition, a group of 12 charities in the U.K., and the National Children's Bureau, a London - based advocacy group for child welChild Poverty Coalition, a group of 12 charities in the U.K., and the National Children's Bureau, a London - based advocacy group for child welchild welfare.

She currently leads evaluations of child welfare interventions targeting parents for the Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self - Sufficiency — Next Generation project, a digital writing and feedback intervention in New York City high schools called Drive to Write, and a smartphone application to promote father engagement that is part of the Building Bridges and Bonds study, among others.

The federal welfare overhaul of 1996, which required many mothers receiving cash assistance to get a job, hasn't significantly improved the home lives of poor children, according to the latest results of an ongoing study.

That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).

In California, for example, a recent study linking child welfare and education data found a previously «invisible achievement gap» between children in foster care and other students, including students with low socioeconomic status, English language learners, and students with disabilities.

Researchers surveyed study participants and their parents, and analyzed education, employment, public aid, criminal justice, substance use and child welfare records for the participants through to age 26.

As you can see, the study shows a 32 million word difference between the children of professional families and those from welfare families.

The Association for Human - Animal Bond Studies is a research - based nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization comprised of professionals in the fields of animal welfare, education, child development, and public health.

In child welfare, a push for employers to adopt all findings and recommendations of a recent workplace safety study, accept lower caseloads, and put hard case caps into effect;

For 8 years he served as Co-PI on the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, the first national probability study of child welfare servChild and Adolescent Well - Being, the first national probability study of child welfare servchild welfare services.

In regard to ASFA, many child welfare practitioners in this study suggested that children of color experienced permanency more often and more expeditiously as a result of this policy.

Evidence from studies of prenatal drug exposure suggest that minority mothers are more likely to be tested for drug use than Caucasian mothers (Chasnoff et al., 1990), which could lead to a higher likelihood of referral to the child welfare system.

For eight years he served as Co-PI on the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being, the first national probability study of child welfare servChild and Adolescent Well - Being, the first national probability study of child welfare servchild welfare services.

His other work has included studies of financial work incentives for welfare recipients, child care subsidy policies, and programs that aim to strengthen the marriages of low - income couples.

The results of this study provide empirical evidence on the steps that child welfare agencies currently take to identify, locate and involve nonresident fathers in case planning; the barriers encountered; and the policies and practices that affect involvement.

The study provides critical information on the extent to which the perceptions of child welfare professionals are consistent with the literature on this issue.

The qualitative methods employed in this study have facilitated a collection of rich, detailed information not only about the overlap between the literature and practitioners» perspectives, but also about how and why the phenomenon occurs and what child welfare agencies are doing to address the issue.

This study documents that nonresident fathers of children in foster care are not often involved in case planning efforts and nearly half are never contacted by the child welfare agency during their child's stay in foster care.

An appendix includes a chart that details the home study process, parental preparation, and postplacement services under child welfare adoption, Hague international adoptions, and non-Hague adoptions.

Particular community and family characteristics also were identified in this study as contributors to racial disproportionality in the child welfare system.

Thus, the administrators in this study who are committed to improved overall child welfare service delivery may be simultaneously working toward the goal of improving the child welfare experiences of children of color specifically.

The current study seeks to address this gap in the literature by exploring child welfare professionals» perceptions of the issue of over-representation.

Consistent with the services research literature, child welfare related preventive services were underfunded in the sites included in this study (Bess et al., 2003; Courtney, 1997).

In addition to the visibility hypothesis, respondents in the study pointed to the increased likelihood of minority mothers to be reported because of their prenatal drug use, which is a major risk factor for child welfare involvement.

In the first study, a nationwide purposive sample of 300 families seeking to adopt children with special needs from the public child welfare system was selected, interviewed, and surveyed to determine actual and potential barriers to the completion of the adoption process.

Reflecting discrimination within the child welfare system, worker bias was perceived by many participants in this study to occur in terms of class and culture.

Despite this perceived benefit, many child welfare practitioners articulated that this policy might have harmful effects on children of color, a position that reflects findings from other studies (e.g. Carter - Black, 2002).

This qualitative study represents the field's first attempt to gather systematically the perceptions of child welfare personnel about the issue of racial disproportionality.

The findings presented in this study suggest that, despite the challenges it faces and the factors that are outside of its control, there are several factors that public child welfare agencies can address to improve child welfare practice and the delivery of services to children and families, including families of color.

Much of [the] Center for the Study of Social Policy's system reform work focuses on improving how public child welfare systems and its partners address the safety, permanency and well - being needs of the children, youth, and families that they serve.

Child welfare practitioners in this study advocated for more concrete and psychological resources for kinship caregivers, including board and maintenance payments.

Although there is limited research on the effects of an individualized, strengths - based approach on child and family outcomes for the population of child welfare clients, prior studies of other service recipients (e.g., early intervention, mental health, elderly services) have found that a family - centered, strengths - based approach is associated with increased service engagement (Green et al., 2004; Shireman, 1998), increased parenting competency (Green et al., 2004; Whitley, 1999), and enhanced interaction among family members (Green et al., 2004; Huebner, Jones, Miller, Custer, & Critchfield, 2006).

Responding to concerns about the over-representation of minority children in the child welfare system, particularly African - American children, the Children's Bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children ochildren in the child welfare system, particularly African - American children, the Children's Bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children ochildren, the Children's Bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children oChildren's Bureau sponsored an exploratory qualitative study of the child welfare system's response to children ochildren of color.

Youth Connections Scale University of Minnesota, Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (2012) Describes and provides the Youth Connection Scale, a tool to help child welfare agencies and organizations help youth in foster care strengthen and build a supportive safety net and achieve relational permanChild Welfare (2012) Describes and provides the Youth Connection Scale, a tool to help child welfare agencies and organizations help youth in foster care strengthen and build a supportive safety net and achieve relational permanchild welfare agencies and organizations help youth in foster care strengthen and build a supportive safety net and achieve relational permanence.

Worker bias was repeatedly identified in the discussions with child welfare workers in this study as one of the reasons for racial disproportionality.

Thus, provider participants in this study strongly suggested that more welfare assistance, concrete services, daycare, and early childhood services should be provided to these families to help them cope with their daily stress and specific challenges associated with raising their returning children.

Experimental manipulations of income among families, such as conditional cash transfer or welfare - to - work programs are important approaches to study the effect of income on child development, as such programs often increase total income for families at or below the federal poverty line.

These findings approximate those of the more recent National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general populaChild and Adolescent Well - Being (NSCAW) that 20 percent of children in an investigation for abuse and neglect had a mother who, by either the child welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general populachild welfare worker's or mother's account, was involved with drugs or alcohol; that figure rises to 42 percent for children who are placed into foster care.7 These studies have clearly established a positive relationship between a caregiver's substance abuse and child maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general populachild maltreatment among children in out - of - home care and among children in the general population.

Evidence - based methods are rapidly emerging from a development phase that has primarily involved local and highly controlled studies, into more national implementation and greater engagement with child welfare services.