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Kearney, Kathleen A.; McEwen, Erwin; Bloom-Ellis, Brice; Jordan, Neil – Child Welfare, 2010
The National Quality Improvement Center on the Privatization of Child Welfare Services selected Illinois as a demonstration site in 2007 to evaluate performance-based contracting in residential treatment services. This article discusses the first two years of project implementation including developing residential treatment performance indicators,…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Child Welfare, Privatization, Performance Contracts
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Child Welfare, 2010
Current federal legislation identifies three goals for the child welfare system: safety, permanence, and family and child well-being. Unfortunately, child well-being becomes subordinate to the more easily achievable and measurable goal of permanence--returning children to the biological family, facilitating an adoption, or placing them with…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Child Welfare, Foster Care, Residential Care
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Gharabaghi, Kiaras; Groskleg, Ron – Child Welfare, 2010
This paper chronicles the exploration and development of a residential program of the child welfare authority of Renfrew County in Ontario, Canada. Recognizing that virtually its entire population of youth in care was failing to achieve positive outcomes in education, Renfrew County Family and Children Services embarked on a program development…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Residential Care, Residential Programs, Child Welfare
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Wall, Jacqueline Remondet; Koch, Steven M.; Link, John W.; Graham, Cathleen – Child Welfare, 2010
In 1995, the Indiana Association of Residential Child Care Agencies (IARCCA), an association of children and family services, responded to a request to demonstrate effectiveness of residential care. The organization developed a vision for evaluating outcomes that incorporated collaboration with others, use of data and projection toward the future.…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Child Care, Program Effectiveness, Outcome Measures
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Hummer, Victoria Latham; Dollard, Norin; Robst, John; Armstrong, Mary I. – Child Welfare, 2010
Children in the child welfare system frequently experience trauma within the caregiving relationship. These traumatic experiences may be compounded by system trauma and place these children at high risk of emotional disorders and placement in out-of-home (OOH) mental health treatment programs. This article reviews the literature on trauma and…
Descriptors: Children, Trauma, Caregiver Child Relationship, Emotional Disturbances
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Carter, Vernon B. – Child Welfare, 2011
Historically, American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) children have been disproportionately represented in the foster care system. In this study, nationally representative child welfare data from October 1999 was used to compare urban AI/AN children to non-Indian children placed into out-of-home care. Compared to non-Indian children, urban AI/AN…
Descriptors: Urban American Indians, Alaska Natives, Child Welfare, Alcohol Abuse
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Gharabaghi, Kiaras – Child Welfare, 2011
This article presents a synthesis of what is known about the educational experiences of youth living in residential group care based on a literature review that highlights both the experiences of the youth themselves and the operational context of residential group care in Ontario as it pertains to educational performance. The author argues that…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Youth, Foreign Countries, Educational Experience
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Stuart, Carol; Sanders, Larry; Gurevich, Maria; Fulton, Robert – Child Welfare, 2011
This article describes the effect of a province-wide vision of evidence-based and outcome-based services for children and youth and the challenges of implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) and evidence-based treatment (EBT) approaches within group care settings. The paper is based on the results of a survey of group care settings in the…
Descriptors: Evidence, At Risk Persons, Foreign Countries, Public Policy
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Spellman, Douglas F.; Griffith, Annette K.; Huefner, Jonathan C.; Wise, Neil, III; McElderry, Ellen; Leslie, Laurel K. – Child Welfare, 2010
This article presents a psychotropic medication management approach that is used within a residential care program. The approach is used to assess medications at youths' times of entry and to facilitate decision making during care. Data from a typical case study have indicated that by making medication management decisions slowly, systematically,…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Drug Therapy, Youth Programs, Decision Making
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Southwell, Jenni; Fraser, Elizabeth – Child Welfare, 2010
This paper presents findings from a landmark Australian study investigating the experiences and perspectives of young people in residential care. Data from a representative sample are analyzed to identify young people's satisfaction with various aspects of their residential care experience: their sense of safety, normality, support, comfort in…
Descriptors: Barriers, Residential Care, Adolescents, Child Welfare
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Holden, Martha J.; Izzo, Charles; Nunno, Michael; Smith, Elliott G.; Endres, Thomas; Holden, Jack C.; Kuhn, Frank – Child Welfare, 2010
This paper describes an effort to bridge research and practice in residential care through implementing a program model titled Children and Residential Experiences (CARE). The strategy involves consulting at all levels of the organization to guide personnel to incorporate CARE evidence-based principles into daily practice, and fostering an…
Descriptors: Evidence, Residential Care, Organizational Culture, Program Implementation
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McCrae, Julie S.; Lee, Bethany R.; Barth, Richard P.; Rauktis, Mary E. – Child Welfare, 2010
Using three waves of data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, this study examines differences in cognitive, academic, and affective well-being of youth first placed in nonkinship foster care (N=259) and youth first placed in group care (N=89). To compare nonrandomized groups, propensity score matching was used. Results…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Foster Care, Child Welfare, National Surveys
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Walizer, Elaine H. – Child Welfare, 1980
Discusses postresidential school placement and its importance to the aftercare adjustment of adolescents. Focuses especially on types of support needed for the educational success of the former client. (CM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Emotional Adjustment, Placement
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Endres, V. Joseph; Goke, Douglas H. – Child Welfare, 1973
Among professionals, the use of the time-out room for the control of disturbed children in residential centers evokes varied and sometimes opposing opinions. This study is based on a questionnaire submitted to 50 residential treatment centers. (Editor)
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Guidelines, Handicapped Children, Opinions
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Fant, Raymond S.; Ross, Andrew L. – Child Welfare, 1979
Presents basic concepts and techniques for developing an effective, supportive program for supervising child care workers in residential facilities. (CM)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Program Descriptions, Program Development, Residential Care
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