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Child Welfare

Awarded Grants

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Tribes and Families: Fulfilling the Dual-Promise of Indian Child Welfare Reform

Do laws and policies that enhance the sovereignty of tribal governments reduce family separation through the child welfare system?
Frank Edwards
Rutgers University, Newark
2021 – 2025
$664,796
Grant

The Role of Income and Housing Support in Reducing Inequality in Child Neglect

Can housing and income support policies reduce or prevent child maltreatment, particularly child neglect, among families facing economic hardship?
William Schneider
University Of Illinois At Urbana
2021 – 2026
$350,000
Grant

Do Tribal Casinos Affect Intergenerational Socio-economic Mobility and Reduce Inequality in Native American Children?

Do tribal cash transfers reduce the intergenerational transmission of poverty and improve outcomes for American Indian young adults?
Randall Akee
University Of California, Los Angeles
2021 – 2025
$432,136
Grant

Making Black Reparations in America

This grant will support research and outreach to address questions about the feasibility of paying reparations to Black American descendants of persons who were enslaved in what is now the United States.
William Darity
Duke University
2021 – 2023
$300,000
Grant

Optimization of the RPC Model: Enhancing Effectiveness and Equity in Improving the Use of Research

Can the Research-to-Policy Collaboration model be improved to reduce inequities for scholars of color in accessing policymakers, improve the timeliness of research to policymakers, and improve cost-effectiveness?
Daniel Crowley
Pennsylvania State University
2021 – 2025
$900,000

Articles & More

Blog Post

“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families

Is poverty a root cause of child welfare system involvement? Researchers have long held this hypothesis, but rarely had an opportunity to test whether giving cash to poor families reduces ...
Natalie De Rosa
“A little bit of cash may help”: Grantees pilot nation’s largest guaranteed income program for child welfare system-involved families
Blog Post

“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation

The US Government has a long and deeply harmful legacy of removing American Indian and Alaska Native children from their families. This practice, initially devised as a settler colonial strategy ...
Frank Edwards
“Much more can be done to protect Native families”: Expanding tribal sovereignty to reduce family separation
Publication

Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research

Research is core to the William T. Grant Foundation, as is the use of the knowledge that results from high-quality, community-based empirical investigations. We are committed to funding the study of 1) programs, policies, and practices to reduce inequalities in the ...
Kim DuMont
Engaging Lived Expertise in Child Welfare Research
Blog Post

The 21st Century Agenda for Research on Child Welfare and our Interest in Studies on Reducing Inequality

A new agenda for research on child welfare systems calls for bold new studies that meet the needs of the 21st Century child welfare system and improve the lives of ...
Adam Gamoran
 and Lauren Supplee
The 21st Century Agenda for Research on Child Welfare and our Interest in Studies on Reducing Inequality
Blog Post

Under pressure: Investigating how system-level factors shape racial inequality in child welfare outcomes

Although there are dots that have yet to be linked explicitly, the connection between fee-for-service reimbursement models and supply-induced demand is the sort of explanation one should expect to find ...
Fred Wulczyn
Under pressure: Investigating how system-level factors shape racial inequality in child welfare outcomes
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