Recent Publications

Recent Publications

Following are publications related to Title IV-E issued from 2015 to 2016.

Administration of the Title IV-E / Title IV-B Plan & Child Welfare Financing

Ahn, H., Carter, L. M., Reiman, S., & Hartzel, S. (2016). Development of a Quality Assurance and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model in Public Child Welfare Systems. Journal of Public Child Welfare, (just-accepted), 1-32.

Berrick, J. D., & Boyd, R. (2016). Financial well-being in family-based foster care: Exploring variation in income supports for kin and non-kin caregivers in California. Children and Youth Services Review, 69, 166-173.

Collins-Camargo, C. (2016). The evolution of child welfare reform.

Cummings, T. (2015, January). Measuring Child and Adolescent Well-Being in the Child Welfare System. In Society for Social Work and Research 19th Annual Conference: The Social and Behavioral Importance of Increased Longevity. Sswr.

Fitch, D. (2015). A Conceptual Framework for Information Technology in Social Work Practice. Advances in Social Work, 16(1), 15-30.

Font, S. (2015, November). Effects of State Foster Care Licensure Regimes on Foster Placement Settings and Outcomes. In 2015 Fall Conference: The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy. Appam.

Garlinghouse, T. G., & Trowbridge, S. (2015). Child Well-Being in Context. U. Pa. JL & Soc. Change, 18, 105.

Haskins, R., Currie, J., & Berger, L. M. (2015). Can States Improve Children's Health by Preventing Abuse and Neglect?. Future of Children.

Jonson-Reid, M., & Drake, B. (2016). Child Well-Being: Where Is It In Our Data Systems?. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-14.

Landsman, M. J. (2015). The Changing Landscape of In-Home Child Welfare Services. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 9(5), 417-422.

Lenzer, G. (2016). The Silent Minority: Toward a Political Economy of Children. Available at SSRN 2767728.

Lightfoot, E. B. (2015, November). The Effects on Foster Children of Using Parental Disability As a Removal Reason. In 2015 Fall Conference: The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy. Appam.

Lockwood, K. K., Friedman, S., & Christian, C. W. (2015). Permanency and the Foster Care System. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 45(10), 306-315.

Raghavan, R., Allaire, B. T., Brown, D. S., & Ross, R. E. (2016). Medicaid Disenrollment Patterns Among Children Coming into Contact with Child Welfare Agencies. Maternal and child health journal, 20(6), 1280-1287.

Rose, B. W. (2015). Policy anaylsis of California fostering connections to success act of 2010. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH.

Rosinsky, K., & Connelly, D. (2016). Child Welfare Financing SFY 2014.

Russell, J. (2015). Child Welfare Finance and Foster Care Outcomes. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 9(2), 134-152.

Ryan, T. N., & Gomez, R. J. (2016). Trends in state budgets and child outcomes during and post child welfare class action litigation. Children and Youth Services Review, 62, 49-57.

Ryan, T. N., & Gomez, R. J. (2016). What Does It Take to Close A Comprehensive Child Welfare Systems Reform Lawsuit?: A Case Study Approach. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, (just-accepted).

Trotter, J. (2016). Foster Care Reform: Dependence on the Government Dole Is Not Working. Liberty Legal J., 10.

Title IV-E Education and Training

Deglau, E., Ray, A., Conway, F., Carre-Lee, N., Waldman, W., Cunningham, K., ... & Powell, T. (2015). Practice Change in Child Welfare: The Interface of Training and Social Work Education. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S153-S172.

Frederico, M., Long, M., McPherson, L., McNamara, P., & Cameron, N. (2016). A consortium approach for child and family practice education. Social Work Education, 35(7), 780-793.

Lery, B., Wiegmann, W., & Berrick, J. D. (2015). Building an Evidence-Driven Child Welfare Workforce: A University–Agency Partnership. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S283-S298.

Smith, B. D., & Vandiver, V. L. (2016). Child Welfare Research and Training A Response to David Stoesz. Research on Social Work Practice, 1049731516629801.

Strand, V. C., Dettlaff, A. J., & Counts-Spriggs, M. (2015). Promising Innovations in Child Welfare Education: Findings From a National Initiative. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S195-S208.

BSW/MSW Stipend Programs & Social Work Education

Altman, J. C., & Cohen, C. S. (2016). “I could not have made it without them”: Examining Trainee Cohort Perspectives on MSW Education for Public Child Welfare. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-18.

Brewsaugh, K., & Strozier, A. (2016). Fathers in child welfare: What do social work textbooks teach our students?. Children and Youth Services Review, 60, 34-41.

Diego, C. (2015). MSW II students' abilities to meet the needs of children in foster homes.

Falk, D. S. (2015). Alumni of a BSW-Level Specialized Title IV-E Program Voice Their Experiences in the Workplace. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S173-S194.

Johnston-Goodstar, K., Piescher, K., & LaLiberte, T. (2016). Critical Experiential Learning in the Native American Community for title IV-E Students: A Pilot Evaluation. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-17.

Leake, R., de Guzman, A., Rienks, S., Archer, G., & Potter, C. (2015). NCWWI Traineeships: A National Cross-Site Evaluation of Child Welfare Stipend Programs for Ethnically Diverse Students.Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S299-S316

Lery, B., Putnam-Hornstein, E., Wiegmann, W., & King, B. (2015). Building analytic capacity and statistical literacy among Title IV-E MSW students. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 9(3), 256-276.

Lyman, M. J., Strayer, S. M., Koser, V. Z., Stoeffler, S., & Kephart, E. (2015). Integrating Research and Practice in Baccalaureate Field Education Through Collaborative Student/Faculty Research.Field Educator, 5(2).

Pokharel, M. P., Poudyal, N., & Baral, N. (2016). Learning in the Public Sector: Evaluation of the SSA Title IV-E Intervention Program of Virginia Department of Social Services. Journal of Public Management & Social Policy, 22(3), 4.

Robinson, L., & Suarez, R. E. (2015). Beliefs About the Effects of Children Witnessing Domestic Violence Among Title IV-E Students.

Smith, L. W. (2015). Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, And Self-Care: What Social Work Students Need To Know.

Allowable Training Topics

Benesh, A. S., & Cui, M. (2016). Foster parent training programmes for foster youth: a content review. Child & Family Social Work.

Kim, J., Pierce, B. J., Jaggers, J. W., Imburgia, T. M., & Hall, J. A. (2016). Improving child welfare services with family team meetings: A mixed methods analysis of caseworkers' perceived challenges. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 261-268.

Lucero, N. M., & Leake, R. (2016). Expressions of Culture in American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal Child Welfare Work: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-21.

Morrow, M. T., Garwood, B. E., Brutko, L. M., Schneider, C. A., & Cuttic, J. A. (2015). The Development and Evaluation of a Mental Health Training for Foster Parents. Journal of the Pennsylvania Counseling Association Spring, 14, 28.

Pecukonis, E., Greeno, E., Hodorowicz, M., Park, H., Ting, L., Moyers, T., ... & Wirt, C. (2016). Teaching Motivational Interviewing to Child Welfare Social Work Students Using Live Supervision and Standardized Clients: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 7(3), 479-505.

Rockhill, A., Furrer, C. J., & Duong, T. M. (2015). Peer Mentoring in Child Welfare: A Motivational Framework. Child welfare, 94(5), 125-144.

Seltzer, R. R., Henderson, C. M., & Boss, R. D. (2015). Medical foster care: what happens when children with medical complexity cannot be cared for by their families?. Pediatric research.

Workforce Development

Benton, A. D. (2016). Understanding the diverging paths of stayers and leavers: An examination of factors predicting worker retention. Children and Youth Services Review, 65, 70-77.

Briar-Lawson, K., Leake, R., Dickinson, N., McCarthy, M., Anderson, G., Groza, V., & Gilmore, G. C. (2015). Investing in the Child Welfare Workforce A Response to David Stoesz. Research on Social Work Practice, 1049731515614912.

Forstbauer, K. L., Oakes, K. N., Galusha, D. G., & Regulier, A. (2015). Training for the Long Term: An Education with Child Welfare Specialization or On the Job Training?.

Griffiths, A., & Royse, D. (2016). Unheard Voices: Why Former Child Welfare Workers Left Their Positions. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-18.

Lizano, E. L., & Barak, M. M. (2015). Job burnout and affective wellbeing: A longitudinal study of burnout and job satisfaction among public child welfare workers. Children and Youth Services Review, 55, 18-28.

Payne, C. (2015). Literature Review: Recruitment and Retention in Health and Human Services.

Perry, R. E. (2015). Let’s Stop Playing Monopoly With the Child Welfare Workforce. Research on Social Work Practice, 1049731515619234.

Pokharel, M. P., & Choi, S. O. (2015). Exploring the relationships between the learning organization and organizational performance. Management Research Review, 38(2), 126-148.

Roberts, S. (2016). Child Protective Service Worker Retention: A Systematic Review.

Scannapieco, M. (2015, January). Examination of Retention and Length of Employment Among Public Child Welfare Workers. In Society for Social Work and Research 19th Annual Conference: The Social and Behavioral Importance of Increased Longevity. Sswr.

Stacy, M. L. (2015). Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction Among Child Welfare Staff.

Staudt, M., Jolles, M. P., Chuang, E., & Wells, R. (2015). Child Welfare Caseworker Education and Caregiver Behavioral Service Use and Satisfaction With the Caseworker. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 9(4), 382-398.

Fostering Connections Act expansion of Title IV-E

Adoption Support

Hartinger-Saunders, R. M., Trouteaud, A., & Matos Johnson, J. (2015). Post adoption service need and use as predictors of adoption dissolution: Findings from the 2012 national adoptive families study. Adoption Quarterly, 18(4), 255-272.

Hegar, R. L., & Scannapieco, M. (2016). Foster Care to Kinship Adoption: The Road Less Traveled. Adoption Quarterly, 1-15.

Brehm, M. (2016). Make Me a Match: State Responses to a Federal Matching Grant and Adoption from Foster Care.

O'Rourke, M. (2015, November). Federal Matching Grants for State Adoption-Related Expenditures and Adoption from Foster Care. In 2015 Fall Conference: The Golden Age of Evidence-Based Policy. Appam.

Steinberg, S. (2016). Where Did All the Social Workers Go? The Need to Prepare Families for Adoption, Assist Post-Adoptive Families in Crisis, and End Re-Homing.

Womack, B. G. (2015, January). TANF Income Eligibility Thresholds and Time to Adoption from Foster Care. In Society for Social Work and Research 19th Annual Conference: The Social and Behavioral Importance of Increased Longevity. Sswr.

Independent Living

Courtney, M. E., Okpych, N. J., Charles, P., Mikell, D., Stevenson, B., Park, K., ... & Okpych, N. J. (2016). Findings from the California Youth Transitions to Adulthood Study (CalYOUTH): Conditions of Youth at Age 19.

Courtney, M. E., & Hook, J. L. (2016). The potential educational benefits of extending foster care to young adults: Findings from a natural experiment. Children and Youth Services Review.

Dworsky, A., & Gitlow, E. (2016). Employment outcomes of young parents who age out of foster care. Children and Youth Services Review.

Eastman, A. L., Putnam-Hornstein, E., Magruder, J., Mitchell, M. N., & Courtney, M. E. (2016). Characteristics of Youth Remaining in Foster Care Through Age 19: A Pre-and Post-Policy Cohort Analysis of California Data. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-18.

Katz, C. C., & Courtney, M. E. (2015). Evaluating the self-expressed unmet needs of emancipated foster youth over time. Children and Youth Services Review, 57, 9-18.

Lucero, A. (2015). Barriers to Services for Transitional Age Youth.

Martinez, J. (2016, November). The Transition from Dependency to Adulthood: Evaluator and Program Partnerships to Build Evidence of Effective Interventions. In 2016 Fall Conference: The Role of Research in Making Government More Effective. Appam.

McDaniel, M., Courtney, M. E., Pergamit, M. R., & Lowenstein, C. (2015). Preparing for a “Next Generation” Evaluation of Independent Living Programs for Youth in Foster Care.

Napolitano, L., Sulimani-Aidan, Y., & Courtney, M. E. (2015). Extended foster care in California: Youth and caseworker perspectives.

Okpych, N. J. (2015). Receipt of independent living services among older youth in foster care: An analysis of national data from the US. Children and Youth Services Review, 51, 74-86.

Peters, C. M., Sherraden, M., & Kuchinski, A. M. (2016). From foster care to adulthood: The role of income. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 10(1), 39-58.

Peters, C. M., Sherraden, M., & Kuchinski, A. M. (2016). Growing Financial Assets for Foster Youths: Expanded Child Welfare Responsibilities, Policy Conflict, and Caseworker Role Tension. Social Work.

Ryan, J. P., Perron, B. E., & Huang, H. (2016). Child welfare and the transition to adulthood: investigating placement status and subsequent arrests. Journal of youth and adolescence, 45(1), 172-182.

Smith, E. J. (2015). The role of financial aid and assets in postsecondary education and training persistence of youth aging out of foster care. BRANDEIS UNIV., THE HELLER SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND MGMT.

Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act

Promoting Normalcy

Jacobson, P. (2015). Promoting “Normalcy” for Foster Children: The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act. Missouri Law Review, 81(1), 21.

Pokempner, J., Mordecai, K., Rosado, L., & Subrahmanyam, D. (2015). Promoting Normalcy for Children and Youth in Foster Care.

Sex Trafficking

Speckman, J. F. (2015). Trafficking and the Child Welfare System Link: An Analysis. J. Am. Acad. Matrimonial Law., 28, 391.

West, A. (2016). Child Trafficking and Child Welfare. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-11.

Title IV-E Partnerships and Demonstration Waivers

Anderson, G., & Briar-Lawson, K. (2015). Guest Editorial—Advancing 21st-Century University–Child Welfare Agency Partnerships. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S149-S152.

Altschuler, D. M., Hussemann, J., Zweig, J., Bañuelos, I., Ross, C., & Liberman, A. (2016). The Sustainability of Juvenile Programs beyond Second Chance Act Funding.

Barnow, B. S., Buck, A., O'Brien, K., Pecora, P., Ellis, M. L., & Steiner, E. (2015). Effective services for improving education and employment outcomes for children and alumni of foster care service: correlates and educational and employment outcomes. Child & Family Social Work, 20(2), 159-170.

Burt, M. R., Gearing, M. E., & McDaniel, M. (2016). Evolution in Programs Offering Supportive Housing to Child Welfare–Involved Families.

Brodowski, M. L., & Rudisill, S. (2016). From Thought to Action: Bridging the Gap in Early Childhood for Our Most Vulnerable Children and Families. In Innovative Approaches to Supporting Families of Young Children (pp. 171-194). Springer International Publishing.

Cummings, T., Hensel, D. J., Bloomquist, K. R., Danh, M., Pierce, B., & Hall, J. A. (2015). 87. Increased Use of Concrete Services for Child Welfare in Title IV-E Waiver Expansions. Journal of Adolescent Health, 56(2), S46-S47.

Danh, M. (2015, January). Family Case Manager Perceptions of Client Needs and System Services. In Society for Social Work and Research 19th Annual Conference: The Social and Behavioral Importance of Increased Longevity. Sswr.

Drahota, A., Meza, R. D., Brikho, B., Naaf, M., Estabillo, J. A., Gomez, E. D., ... & Aarons, G. A. (2016). Community‐Academic Partnerships: A Systematic Review of the State of the Literature and Recommendations for Future Research. The Milbank Quarterly, 94(1), 163-214.

Geenen, S., Powers, L. E., Phillips, L. A., Nelson, M., McKenna, J., Winges-Yanez, N., ... & Swank, P. (2015). Better Futures: A randomized field test of a model for supporting young people in foster care with mental health challenges to participate in higher education. The journal of behavioral health services & research, 42(2), 150-171.

Geiger, J. M., Hanrahan, J. E., Cheung, J. R., & Lietz, C. A. (2016). Developing an on-campus recruitment and retention program for foster care alumni. Children and Youth Services Review, 61, 271-280.

Halfon, N., & Klee, L. (2015). Health and Development Services for Children with Multiple Needs: The Child in Foster Care. Yale Law & Policy Review, 9(1), 5.

Mathias, C., Gilman, E., Shin, C., & Evans, W. T. (2015). California’s Title IV-E Partnership: A Statewide University–Agency Collaboration—Characteristics and Implications for Replication. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S252-S270.

Meloy, M. E., Lipscomb, S. T., & Baron, M. J. (2015). Linking state child care and child welfare policies and populations: Implications for children, families, and policymakers. Children and Youth Services Review, 57, 30-39.

Pierce, B., McGuire, L. E., & Howes, P. (2015). Ready, Set, Go… Again: Renewing an Academy–Agency Child Welfare Partnership. Journal of Social Work Education, 51(sup2), S239-S251.

Rolock, N., Snyder, S. M., & Tate, C. (2015). Formative Evaluation: A Case Study of the Illinois Birth-to-Three IV-E Waiver. Journal of evidence-informed social work, 12(5), 488-499.

Ryan, J. P. (2015, January). Role of Screening in a Model for Integrating Substance Abuse Treatment and Child Welfare Services. In Society for Social Work and Research 19th Annual Conference: The Social and Behavioral Importance of Increased Longevity. Sswr.

Ryan, J. P., Victor, B. G., Moore, A., Mowbray, O., & Perron, B. E. (2016). Recovery coaches and the stability of reunification for substance abusing families in child welfare. Children and Youth Services Review, 70, 357-363.

Salazar, A. M., Haggerty, K. P., de Haan, B., Catalano, R. F., Vann, T., Vinson, J., & Lansing, M. (2016). Using communities that care for community child maltreatment prevention. American journal of orthopsychiatry, 86(2), 144.

Sankaran, V. S., & Church, C. (2016). ASY COME, EASY GO: THE PLIGHT OF CHILDREN WHO SPEND LESS THAN THIRTY DAYS IN FOSTER CARE. U. Pa. JL & Soc. Change, 19, 207-239.

Saultz, A., McEachin, A., & Fusarelli, L. D. (2016). Waivering as Governance Federalism During the Obama Administration. Educational Researcher, 45(6), 358-366.

Slayter, E. M. (2016). Foster Care Outcomes for Children With Intellectual Disability. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 54(5), 299-315.

Slayter, E. (2016). Youth with disabilities in the United States Child Welfare System. Children and Youth Services Review, 64, 155-165.

Snyder, S. M., Hartinger-Saunders, R., Brezina, T., Beck, E., Wright, E. R., Forge, N., & Bride, B. E. (2016). Homeless youth, strain, and justice system involvement: An application of general strain theory. Children and Youth Services Review, 62, 90-96.

Swanke, J. R., Yampolskaya, S., Strozier, A., & Armstrong, M. I. (2016). Mental health service utilization and time to care: A comparison of children in traditional foster care and children in kinship care.Children and Youth Services Review, 68, 154-158.

Zlotnik, S., Wilson, L., Scribano, P., Wood, J. N., & Noonan, K. (2015). Mandates for collaboration: Health care and child welfare policy and practice reforms create the platform for improved health for children in foster care. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 45(10), 316-322.