The Institute has summaries on journal articles across a range of research topics.
Child Abuse Prevention
Best practices for preventing child maltreatment and neglect
Dually Served Youth
Youth who are served by both the DJJ and DCF systems
Evidence-based Practice
Incorporates the Best Research Evidence and the Best Clinical Experience and is consistent with Family/Client Values
Health & Well-being
State of complete physical, social, and mental well-being that is the result of a combination of physical, social, intellectual, and emotional factors.
Human Trafficking
Human trafficking includes the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain labor or commercial sex.
Interpersonal Violence
Behavior in an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm
Kinship Care
Care of children by extended family
Permanency
Timely reunification, permanent placement, or adoption
- Agency-related Barriers Experienced by Families Seeking to Adopt from Foster Care
- An Innovative Child Welfare Pilot Initiative
- Exploring the Path from Foster Care to Stable and Lasting Adoption: Perceptions of Foster Care Alumni
- Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Foster Parent Training: A Mixed-methods Evaluation of Parent and Child Outcomes
- Predictors of Foster Care Exits to Permanency: A Competing Risks Analysis of Reunification, Guardianship, and Adoption
Practice Model
Set of common core safety concepts for determining when children are safe, unsafe, or at risk of subsequent harm
Racial Bias
The overrepresentation of certain racial and ethnic populations in the child welfare system when compared with their representation in the general population
- Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents: Implications for Quality Transcultural Parenting
- Dynamics that Contribute to Racial Disproportionality and Disparity
- An Overview of the Courts Catalyzing Change Preliminary Protective Hearing Benchcard Study
- Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Outcomes of Former Foster Youth
Service Array
Services available in the community that treat the mental and behavioral health needs of families
- Engagement in Child Protective Services: Parent Perceptions of Worker Skills
- Making it Work without a Family Drug Court: Connecticut’s Approach to Parental Substance Abuse in the Child Welfare System
- Training Youth Services Staff to Identify, Assess, and Intervene When Working with Youth at High Risk for Suicide
Workforce
Child welfare case managers, child protective investigators, and other job functions such as hotline screeners and licensing staff
- Critical Thinking in Child Welfare Supervision
- Do Components of Stengths-based Supervision Enhance Child Welfare Workers' Satisfaction with Supervision?
- Examining Internal and External Job Resources in Child Welfare: Protecting Against Caseworker Burnout
- Getting Everyone on the Same Page: Child Welfare Workers’ Collaboration Challenges on Cases Involving Intimate Partner Violence
- The Influence of Job Satisfaction on Child Welfare Worker’s Desire to Stay: An Examination of the Interaction Effect of Self-Efficacy and Supportive Supervision
- Listening to the Voices of Children in Foster Care: Youths Speak Out About Child Welfare Workforce Turnover and Selection
- Predictors of Natural Mentoring Relationships Among Former Foster Youth
- Recruitment and Retention of Child Welfare Workers in Longitudinal Research
- Satisfactions and Stressors Experienced by Recently-hired Frontline Child Welfare Workers
- Strengths-based Supervision: Supporting Implementation of Family-centered Practice through Supervisory Processes
- Supporting Family-centered Practice through Supervision: An Evaluation of Strengths-based Supervision
- "The Stress is Indescribable." Self-reported Health Implications from Child Welfare Supervisors
- Through their Lens: Case Managers’ Experiences of the Child Welfare System