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… Without denial, delay or disruption: Ensuring First Nations children’s access to equivalent services … Sheet # 143 Published in 2015 Vandna Sinha About the Authors Vandna Sinha is an assistant professor at the McGill University School of Social Work. This …

… Language development trajectories of infants with substantiated maltreatment histories within three placement types … 1 … en … Language development … The highest rate of victimization, among the 3.5 million investigated cases of child maltreatment in 2008 in the US, was for children under the age of 4. Child maltreatment can have a profound impact on children’s overall development in language, cognition, motor skills and social development. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the language development in auditory comprehension (AC) and…

… Transitioning Youth Require Different Levels of Service Intensity … 1 … en … Transitioning Youth Require Different … Youth transitioning out of foster care are a heterogeneous group, revealing dysfunctional as well as ‘resilient’ functioning and outcomes. Understanding the variation in functioning, strengths, vulnerabilities and child welfare experiences is crucial to determining the type and intensity of supports and supervision required as youth transition from care into adulthood.  This study is based…

… Missed opportunities to detect head trauma among professionals in children who suffered abuse … 1 … en … Missed … opportunities to detect head trauma among professionals in children who suffered abuse … Infants who suffer from minor abusive injuries are at greater risk for more serious abusive injuries including abusive head trauma (AHT). AHT has been argued to be the leading cause of death in young children. The objective of this study was to determine if children who suffered from AHT had prior opportunities for abuse detection.  The authors conducted a secondary data analysis using…

… Home visiting program has little effect on parenting skills, child health and development, and occurrence of child abuse … 1 … en … Home visiting program has little … These two related studies examined the impact of the Healthy Families Alaska (HFAK) program model on: 1) child abuse, and 2) parenting and child health and development. HFAK is a home visiting program, targeting high-risk families; the program has explicit performance indicators; program staff must complete basic training by Healthy Families America (HFA) certified trainers; these authors had…

… Longitudinal study confirms previously victimized children at higher risk of future victimization … 1 … en … Longitudinal study confirms previously victimized children at higher … There is an increasing interest amongst researchers on what makes children vulnerable to re-victimization, particularly poly-victimization (four or more incidents of victimization in one year). Using data from the Developmental Victimization Survey (DVS), a longitudinal study designed to assess a comprehensive range of childhood victimizations (such as physical assaults, peer victimizations and…

… Permanency planning legislation associated with speedier decision-making in Oregon … 1 … en … Permanency planning legislation … The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA), enacted in 1997 in the United States, was passed largely as a response to growing concerns about the "foster care drift", or the fact that many children under child protection were experiencing multiple and unstable foster care placements over extended periods of time. However, up until now, little is known about whether ASFA was meeting its intended…

… Using sibling data still finds no treatment effect of family group … 1 … en … Using sibling data still finds no treatment effect of family group conferencing on child welfare outcomes … Studies of the impact of family group decision-making (FGDM) on child welfare outcomes have suffered from small sample sizes and lack of adequate comparison groups. Since FGDM is administered at the family level, the use of sibling data provides a possible way of compensating for small sample sizes and low enrollment rates. This study used sibling data from California's Title IV-E Waiver…

… Improving quality of life for adult foster care alumni with physical or psychiatric disabilities … 1 … en … Improving quality of life for adult foster care alumni with physical or … This study examined the quality of life (QOL) of adults (N=1087) who had been placed in a private foster care program for at least 12 months in the period 1966-98, and who had been discharged at least 12 months before the start of the study. Data—from archival case records and interviews by trained professionals—included: QOL outcomes: economic (education, earnings, job satisfaction & job…

… Children at risk of maltreatment more likely to have mental health concerns … less likely to receive services … 1 … en … Children at risk of maltreatment more likely to have mental health concerns … Mental health concerns, in the form of emotional or behavioral disorders, are increasingly common among children. However, there are indications that only half of children who need mental health services will receive them, and this unmet need may be even greater for children served by the child welfare system. Using U.S. data from the Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) and…