Child Welfare

Can an organizational intervention alter the culture and climate of mental health service programs for youth and result in improvements in staff attitudes, services delivered, and outcomes for recipients?

This award builds on an NIH-funded cluster-randomized trial to test whether providing implementation support through community development teams impacts a county’s decision to adopt the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, an evidence-based child welfare program. With this award, Palinkas will...

Is it possible to identify and measure the welfare agency staff practices and service activities that account for the difference in outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare agencies?

Ms. Nixon will work on three research projects at the University of Chicago: a longitudinal study of youth aging out of foster care in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin; an examination of tests of interventions directed at improving outcomes for foster ...

This project will evaluate promising practices in the field of adolescent homelessness and educate member agencies in developing and refining their programs.

Dr. Nicholson will work within the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Her focus will be on mental health and child welfare.

Mr. Geen, Director of Child Welfare Research at the Urban Institute will work with the Democratic staff within the Human Resources Subcommittee of the House Committee on Ways and Means.

To support a project aimed at examining what works to evaluate to create positive change in large, public child welfare agencies serving extremely vulnerable, low-income children and youth.