The purpose of the Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care project is to examine rates of instability, factors associated with instability, and the supports and resources that promote post-permanency stability. Ultimately, the project aims to support efforts to build the capacity of federal, state, and local agencies to get accurate information about instability for children who exit foster care to adoption or guardianship. In order to examine these issues, two separate studies were conducted 1.) The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship: Child Welfare Agency and Family Interactions Study and 2.) The Survey of National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adopted Youth, Young Adults, Adults, and Adoptive Parents. This dataset contains data from The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship: Child Welfare Agency and Family Interactions Study. The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship: Child Welfare Agency and Family Interactions Study (hereafter referred to as “The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship Study”) seeks to understand child welfare agency processes and procedures to help obtain better information on post adoption and post guardianship instability. The study explores the intentional and unintentional ways public child welfare agencies contact or receive information about the well-being of children and youth (and in particular, their experiences of instability) who have exited the foster care system through adoption or guardianship. Additionally, this study investigates how child welfare agencies track children and youth who exit the foster care system to adoption or guardianship and what information they collect. The study used two web-based surveys of adoption program managers (APMs) in all 50-states. One web survey focused on adoption practices, which all AMPs received, and one focused on guardianship practices. Only APMs from the 38 states that have a federally subsidized guardianship program (i.e., Kin-GAP) were asked to complete the separate guardianship survey. Seventy-two percent of the 50 APMs responded to the adoption survey and 63% of the 38 guardianship APMs responded to the guardianship survey. Investigators: Nancy Rolock, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Kevin White, PhD. East Carolina University Greenville, NC Heather Ringeisen, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Rose Domanico, MA RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Rong Bai, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Leyla Stambaugh, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC

The purpose of the Understanding Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care project is to examine rates of instability, factors associated with instability, and the supports and resources that promote post-permanency stability. Ultimately, the project aims to support efforts to build the capacity of federal, state, and local agencies to get accurate information about instability for children who exit foster care to adoption or guardianship. In order to examine these issues, two separate studies were conducted 1.) The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship: Child Welfare Agency and Family Interactions Study and 2.) The Survey of National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adopted Youth, Young Adults, Adults, and Adoptive Parents. This dataset contains data from The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship: Child Welfare Agency and Family Interactions Study. The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship: Child Welfare Agency and Family Interactions Study (hereafter referred to as “The Contact After Adoption or Guardianship Study”) seeks to understand child welfare agency processes and procedures to help obtain better information on post adoption and post guardianship instability. The study explores the intentional and unintentional ways public child welfare agencies contact or receive information about the well-being of children and youth (and in particular, their experiences of instability) who have exited the foster care system through adoption or guardianship. Additionally, this study investigates how child welfare agencies track children and youth who exit the foster care system to adoption or guardianship and what information they collect. The study used two web-based surveys of adoption program managers (APMs) in all 50-states. One web survey focused on adoption practices, which all AMPs received, and one focused on guardianship practices. Only APMs from the 38 states that have a federally subsidized guardianship program (i.e., Kin-GAP) were asked to complete the separate guardianship survey. Seventy-two percent of the 50 APMs responded to the adoption survey and 63% of the 38 guardianship APMs responded to the guardianship survey. Investigators: Nancy Rolock, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Kevin White, PhD. East Carolina University Greenville, NC Heather Ringeisen, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Rose Domanico, MA RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Rong Bai, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Leyla Stambaugh, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC

The study was funded to explore the changes in mental health service use as older youth leave the foster care system. The data, however, examine many parameters of the lives of older youth in the foster care system, from their perspective. Four-hundred six youth in the Missouri foster care system were interviewed in person near their 17th birthday. They were re-interviewed when possible every three months until their 19th birthday. Eighty percent of the youth were interviewed at age 19. Thus, the study includes nine data points. Domains of instrumentation include psychiatric history, substance use, child maltreatment history, mental health service use, attitudes toward mental health service use, residential history, religious involvement, reading level, dating violence, trauma history, stress, perception of neighborhood, psychopathy, employment, legal involvement, childbearing, sexual activity, and much more. Few variables were assessed at each interview time point. Investigators: Curtis McMillen, Ph.D. Washington University St. Louis, MO Lionel D Scott, Ph.D.Huntsville, AL Wendy Fran Auslander, Ph.D. Washington University ST. Louis, MI

The Survey of National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adopted Youth, Young Adults, Adults, and Adoptive Parents (hereafter referred to as “The NSCAW Adoption Study”) seeks to understand the extent of post adoption instability events that occur in families who have adopted children who have exited the foster care system. Post adoption instability refers to situations in which children who exit foster care to adoptive homes no longer reside with their adoptive parents and includes formal events, such as a child’s reentry into the foster care system, or informal events, such as a child going to live with a grandparent or running away. A second objective is to understand risk and protective factors associated with post adoption instability. The study conducted web or telephone surveys with adopted youth, young adults, and adults as well as their adoptive parents who were participants in the first or second cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I, II; OMB #0970-0202). Investigators: Heather Ringeisen, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Rose Domanico, MA RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Nancy Rolock, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Kevin White, PhD East Carolina University Greenville, NC Stephen Tueller, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Leyla Stambaugh, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC

The Survey of National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adopted Youth, Young Adults, Adults, and Adoptive Parents (hereafter referred to as “The NSCAW Adoption Study”) seeks to understand the extent of post adoption instability events that occur in families who have adopted children who have exited the foster care system. Post adoption instability refers to situations in which children who exit foster care to adoptive homes no longer reside with their adoptive parents and includes formal events, such as a child’s reentry into the foster care system, or informal events, such as a child going to live with a grandparent or running away. A second objective is to understand risk and protective factors associated with post adoption instability. The study conducted web or telephone surveys with adopted youth, young adults, and adults as well as their adoptive parents who were participants in the first or second cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW I, II; OMB #0970-0202). Investigators: Heather Ringeisen, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Rose Domanico, MA RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Nancy Rolock, PhD Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH Kevin White, PhD East Carolina University Greenville, NC Stephen Tueller, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC Leyla Stambaugh, PhD RTI International Research Triangle Park, NC

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, and the Children’s Bureau released a brief on the use of congregate care in the child welfare system. Through examining trends from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), federal, state, and local agencies were able to collect data elements which are designed to help policymakers and advocates better understand the population of children and youth who are likely to experience congregate care and what, if any, additional supports may be needed to further reduce reliance on it as a placement setting. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The major efforts mandated by the authorizing Adoption Opportunities program legislation, section 205 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, as amended (P.L. 95-266) are developing and implementing a national adoption and foster care data gathering and analysis system; developing and implementing a national adoption information exchange system; developing and implementing an adoption training and technical assistance program; increasing services in support of the placement in adoptive families of minority children who are in foster care and have the goal of adoption with a special emphasis on the recruitment of minority families; increasing post-legal adoption services for families who have adopted children with special needs; studying the nature, scope, and effects of the placement of children in kinship care arrangements and pre-adoptive or adoptive homes; and studying the efficacy of States' contracting with public and private non-profit agencies (including community-based and other organizations). In these areas, research and demonstration grants are awarded through a competitive process to States, local government entities, Federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations, colleges and universities, public or private non-profit licensed child welfare agencies, adoption exchanges and community-based organizations with experience working with minority populations. This section of the Compendium describes the 16 Adoption Opportunities projects funded in FY 2001 under the following priority areas: 2001A.1: Achieving Increased Adoptive Placements for Children in Foster Care 2001A.2: Field Initiated Demonstration Projects Advancing the Sate of the Art in the Adoption Field 2001A.3: Quality Improvement Centers on Adoption 2001A.4: Evaluations of Existing Adoption Programs Through this grant, the New York State Office of Children and Family Services/New York State Adoption Service (OCFS/NYSAS), in collaboration with New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS), intends to address the hardest of New York State's adoption cases by finding permanent adoptive homes for 65 of New York State's "Longest Waiting Children." Many of these children are in therapeutic foster boarding homes, group homes, and residential treatment centers and are seen as having multiple barriers to finalization. In addition to finding homes for these children, OCFS/NYSAS will identify, analyze, and develop strategies to address the barriers that have kept these children without adoptive homes for an average of 8.6 years after freeing. These strategies will be incorporated into training for caseworkers. The Missouri Department of Social Services' Division of Family Services endeavors to increase the number of children adopted from foster care through the Missouri Adoption Continuum project. This project provides unique pre-placement and post-adoption support services that complement existing programs and that are designed to strengthen the adoption process. In doing so, it endeavors to work collaboratively with public and private agencies to expedite permanency for 500 children from foster care. Specifically, the Missouri Adoption Continuum, through innovative recruitment and marketing services, plans to collaborate with public and private agencies and foster/adoptive parent associations to forge a 20% increase in the number of adoptive families for children embodied in foster care. In addition, the program will develop and implement a statewide training program for 40 adoptive parents to mentor prospective adoptive parents from initial inquiry through placement of a special needs child. The Missouri Adoption Continuum will also initiate a respite network by recruiting and training 70 respite providers who will serve adoptive families throughout the state. The project will conduct a comprehensive, outcome-based evaluation of its program and will disseminate the results. The grantee will establi

This report presents results from the Child and Family Services Reviews related to older youth (aged 16—17) in foster care for the 38 states reviewed during the first 3 years of round 3 (2015—2017). Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This report presents results from the Child and Family Services Reviews related to older youth (aged 16—17) in foster care for the 38 states reviewed during the first 3 years of round 3 (2015—2017). Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The objective of the present study was to examine the direct and indirect impacts of childhood sexual abuse on maternal attitudes, perceptions, and behavior. The study's participants were a subset of 357 primiparous women interviewed at 28 to 32 weeks' gestation between the fall of 1990 and early 1992. At the time of the initial interview, almost 35% of the women reported sexual abuse before age 18. In 1995 and 1996, 265 women, 74% of the original sample, were re-interviewed when their children were between two and fours years old. In this sample 40% of the respondents had been identified as sexually abused in the first study. In the follow-up interview, variables measuring parenting outcomes included: child-rearing competence, satisfaction, and efficacy; parenting stress; discipline practices; and family functioning. Variables measuring possible mediating factors between a history of sexual abuse and parenting practices included: education, occupation, income, family structure; current physical and mental health parameters, particularly depressive symptomatology; perceived current stresses unrelated to parenting; current family violence or sexual victimization; and parental sense of mastery. The data file distributed for this study contains 265 cases and 556 variables. Investigators: Benedict, Mary