The Institute has summaries on journal articles across a range of research topics. Here are our current offerings:

Dually Served Youth

Youth who are served by both the DJJ and DCF systems

• Child Welfare and the Transition to Adulthood: Investigating Placement Status and Subsequent Arrests
• Foster Care, Geographic Neighborhood Change,and the Risk of Delinquency

Evidence-based Practice

Incorporates the Best Research Evidence and the Best Clinical Experience and is consistent with Family/Client Values

• Parent-child Interaction Therapy: An Evidence-based Treatment for Child Maltreatment

Kinship

Care of children by extended family

• Impact of Kinship Care on Behavioral Well-being for Children in Out-of-home Care

Interpersonal Violence

Behavior in an intimate relationship that causes physical, sexual or psychological harm

• Co-occurrence of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment: Service Providers’ Perceptions

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
• Predictors of Foster Care Exits to Permanency: A Competing Risks Analysis of Reunification, Guardianship, and Adoption
• 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

Practice Model

Set of common core safety concepts for determining when children are safe, unsafe, or at risk of subsequent harm

• Child Welfare Practice Model Implementation Projects: Lessons Learned

Racial Bias

The overrepresentation of certain racial and ethnic populations in the child welfare system when compared with their representation in the general population

• Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Outcomes of Former Foster Youth
• Cultural Receptivity among Foster Parents: Implications for Quality Transcultural Parenting
• An Overview of the Courts Catalyzing Change Preliminary Protective Hearing Benchcard Study

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
• 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
•  Through their Lens: Case Managers’ Experiences of the Child Welfare System