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Lessons from the Field: Using Housing Vouchers to Support Youth With Child Welfare Experience at Risk of Homelessness
The Children’s Bureau, within the Administration for Children and Families (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services), is funding a multi-phase grant program to build the evidence base on what works to prevent homelessness among youth and young adults who have been involved in the child welfare system. This program is called Youth At-Risk of Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth
Author(s): Lanae Davis
Colorado Pathways to Success Formative Evaluation Final Report
The Colorado Pathways to Success Program is a multi-phased program funded by the Children’s Bureau with the aim of developing new initiatives aimed at preventing youth homelessness among current and former foster care youth aged 14-21. This report outlines the key intervention components of the model and reviews the evaluation, lessons learned, and preliminary outcomes Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Lanae Davis, Nancy Thoennes, Savahanna Matyasic
Using Continuous Quality Improvement to Refine Interventions for Youth at Risk of Homelessness
In this brief, local evaluators working with two Youth at Risk of Homeless grantees, Alameda County, California, and the Colorado Department of Human Services, describe how their teams used continuous quality improvement (CQI) to learn from the initial implementation of their model interventions and refine them.
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Lanae Davis
Keyword(s): at-risk youth, case management, foster care, program innovations
Utilizing Coaching to Prevent Homelessness Among Transition-Age Youth with Foster Care Histories
This research brief provides an overview of coaching behavior and in-depth examples of the practice and impacts of coach-like engagement in working with at-risk youth.
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Lanae Davis, Tara Prendergast
Keyword(s): at-risk youth, coaching brief, foster care, homeless prevention
Developing A Model Intervention to Prevent Homelessness Among Transition-Age Youth
In 2013, Colorado’s Department of Human Services (CDHS), Division of Child Welfare (DCW) was chosen as one of eighteen grantees to receive a planning grant (Phase I) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Children’s Bureau under their Youth-At-Risk-of-Homelessness (YARH) demonstration projects. Since then, Colorado was selected as one of six grantee sites Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth
Author(s): Lanae Davis, Tara Prendergast
Keyword(s): at-risk youth, foster care
Enhancing Agency Collaboration and Case Processing
The child support and child welfare project was undertaken to improve collaboration between sister agencies in multiple jurisdictions. The Center for Policy Research of Denver, Colo., with grant funding from the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement, conducted two meetings in Washington, D.C., in 2006 and 2007 to bring together top-level managers and other key representatives of child welfare and child support Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes
Results of the Louisiana Foster Parent Survey
This document draws on data from several different sources to explore the experiences of Louisiana foster parents. The primary goal is to identify areas in which foster parents need additional training and support. A brief demographic profile of the foster parents who were interviewed or surveyed is included, as is a brief overview of their experiences as foster parents. This Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): behavior, child development, court, education
New York City Child Permanency Mediation Program Evaluation
The evaluation of the New York City Child Permanency Mediation Program was intended to provide information to help to answer the question, “Does mediation work?” There is, of course, no single measure of whether mediation, or any program, “works.” Therefore, the evaluation considered a variety of possible outcomes to answer the questions: “Is mediation helpful to parties?” and “Is mediation helpful Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Caddo Parish Family Drug Court Evaluation
The Caddo Parish Family Drug Court has now been in operation for nearly five years. This fact seemed to argue for a reflection on the accomplishment of the program thus far, and consideration about the possible future for family drug courts in Louisiana. In conjunction with the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Caddo Parish Family Drug Court, a Read More
Issue(s): Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Nancy Thoennes, Rasa Kaunelis
Keyword(s): alcohol addiction, child abuse, drug addiction, neglect, substance abuse
Child Support and Child Welfare – Enhancing Agency Collaboration and Case Processing
What child support agencies share in common with child welfare agencies is children. Not simply children in the abstract, but often the very same children from the very same families — very often, poor families. When child support and child welfare operate entirely independently, the end result can be poorer outcomes for families. Vital information known to Read More
Issue(s): Child Support, Child Welfare
Focus Area(s): Core Program Services, Foster Care & At-Risk Youth, Program Innovations
Author(s): Jessica Pearson, Nancy Thoennes
Keyword(s): improving case processing & management, interagency communcation, multiple-agency families, mutal concern