Journal of Public Child Welfare

Article	Citations
Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care	12
Improving foster carer recruitment in Victoria: a mixed-methods approach to support tailored recruitment efforts	12
An examination of child welfare agency models that serve immigrant children and families	12
State investment in Title IV-E stipend programs and child length of stay in foster care: a national study	10
Children removed for inadequate housing are less likely to be reunified than peers: analysis from AFCARS data	9
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States	8
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color	7
“Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”: Exploring teacher and school staff experiences with mandated reporting	5
2022 Article of the Year	5
Information needs of current and prospective foster caregivers: a content analysis of Reddit posts	4
Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education	4
Retrospective narratives of challenges experienced during adolescence and young adulthood after child welfare-involvement	4
CaseAIM: child welfare workers’ experiences using information and communication technology for case management services	4
Child maltreatment in Swiss welfare care until 1981: former caregivers’ perspectives on the welfare context	4
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth	4
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT	3
Child and state factors in positive permanency: a multi-level survival analysis	3
Understanding the health and well-being of adults 10-15 years after adoption from the US foster care system	3
Children hospitalized for suspected maltreatment in Greece: who, why and what for?	3
Differences in developmental problems between victims of different types of child maltreatment	3
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice	3
Association between child’s mental health and emotional maltreatment among children in out-of-home placement in Israel: importance of the child’s age, poverty, domestic violence and number of maltreat	3
Understanding the roles and challenges of child protection employees in out-of-home care arrangements for children of minority and immigrant backgrounds in Rogaland, Norway	3
Adoptive parents’ perspectives on adoption adjustment and post-adoption support	3
Enhancing Behavioral Health Services for Child Welfare-Involved Parents: A Qualitative Study	3

A principles-based approach to evaluating family engagement group strategies: Lessons from a IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project	3
Experiences of Psychologists in Applying Mandatory Reporting in Ireland (Children First)	2
Technology-Based Smoking Cessation for Youth Exiting Foster Care: A Pilot Randomized Trial	2
Effectiveness of parent–infant psychotherapy for infant development, parenting, parental mental health, and the attachment relationship: a review of the literature	2
2020 Article of the Year	2
Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment: a mediating role of parenting aggravation	2
To report or not report? How attitudes, values, and knowledge play a role in mandated reporting	2
Mandatory reporting of child abuse/neglect among substance use counselors	2
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis	2
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness	2
Foster caregivers in crisis: a comparison study of the perceptions of foster caregivers and child welfare workers	2
Everyone benefits when there is another MSW in child welfare: exploring ways to support Title IV-E MSW student-employees	2
“Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact	2
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care	2
Predicting substance use treatment completion & reunification among family treatment court-involved parent–child dyads	2
Court-level stakeholders’ reunification decisions and perceived role in parents’ readiness to support early emotional development post-abuse and/or neglect	2
Smart Start: a feasible intervention for young children with disabilities and trauma	1
Exploring alternative care options for children in China: recent developments and challenges	1
Barriers to the involvement of extended family and fictive kin in the lives of children in foster care	1
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program	1
Interprofessional collaborations in child welfare: providers’ experiences	1
Assessing appeals against emergency placements in Norway: A balancing act	1
Trajectories of psychosocial functioning and attachment behaviors among children adopted in the Ontario child welfare system	1
Impact of COVID-19 on the educational experiences of youth in foster care: caseworker perspectives	1
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?	1
Family poverty, family adversity, neglect, and entry into out-of-home care	1
Attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of child welfare workers toward LGBTQ youth	1
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Child Welfare and Court: Identifying Challenges and Implications to Move Social Work Practice Forward	1
Supervision in child welfare: Its importance to investigators and case managers	1
Facilitators and barriers of using mental health services among children in foster care: insights from foster parents in a Southeastern state	1
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada	1
Behavioral health and legal system involvement among transition-age youth in foster care: a longitudinal analysis of youth in California	1
A fight to work with families, rather than against them: exploring social workers’ experiences of working within the family safeguarding model; an IPA analysis	1
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience	1
Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics	1
Perceptions of agency leadership and intent to stay: an examination of turnover in the child welfare workforce	1
The problems of social preparedness of orphanage graduates in Kazakhstan	1
Intersectionality and the Overrepresentation of Black Women, children, and families in the child welfare system: A scoping review	1
Impact of COVID-19 on child welfare practice and implications for future practice: perspectives from youth, family, frontline workers, and other professionals	1
Examining a decade of Title IV-E outcomes: a scoping review	1
Reverse visitation between former foster parents and adopted children	1
Utilizing focus groups to inform the development of a standardized pre-certification resource parent training curriculum	1
Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia	1
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Where we’ve been, where we’re headed, and where we need to go	1
“Unachievable adulthood?!” – exploring family formation journeys of care leavers in China	1
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care	0
Navigating the context of uncertainty in child protection practice	0
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work	0
Identifying children at risk for maltreatment fatalities: assessing the current landscape of birth match policies in the United States	0
Supporting LGBTQIA+ youth in foster care: Considerations for FosterCARE training	0

Evaluation of a Brief Foster Parent/ Case Worker Training to Support Relationship Building Skills and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth in Care	0
The use of mental health services among children in kinship care: an application of Andersen’s Behavioral Model for Health Services Use	0
Examining Employment Outcomes of Recently Hired, Older Workers in the Child Welfare Workforce	0
Resilient Outcomes among Youth Aging-Out of Foster Care: Findings from the National Youth in Transition Database	0
Incorporating data-driven decision making in family preservation: an examination of recurrence rates, case reviews, and lessons learned	0
Adoption from the perspective of Iranian fertile mothers: a qualitative study	0
Foster parents’ need for greater information sharing when caring for children with prenatal substance exposure within child welfare	0
Inviting Plain Mennonite and Amish families to provide foster care for children	0
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers	0
Poverty and child maltreatment: a systematic review	0
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters	0
Imagining a new future: elimination of child support obligations for child welfare-involved families	0
Navigating the world of work: experiences and perspectives of care leavers in China	0
State variations in child maltreatment reports among adolescents in the United States	0
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal	0
Navigating the child welfare system: the role of enhanced parent advocacy supports in child protection	0
Foster parent factors associated with placement stability: An umbrella review	0
How do academic and career services affect employment, education, and disability benefit receipt in the transition to adulthood for youth with disabilities who have aged out of foster care?	0
A multi-year study of camp-based reunification and the well-being of siblings separated by out-of-home care	0
The future of child welfare will look toward children’s health: the case of the Kentucky Health Information Data Sharing (KHIDS) project	0
Feasibility of engaging child welfare-involved parents with substance use disorders in research: key challenges and lessons learned	0
Child’s adjustment and parent-child contact after child placement into foster care: a systematic review	0
Secondary traumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among foster parents	0
Child protection agencies collaborating with grass-root community organizations: partnership or tokenism?	0
Connecting children and youth with their families during COVID-19: perspectives of child welfare workers and foster parents	0
Leveraging Qualified Residential Treatment Program requirements to facilitate data driven decision-making: a guide for child welfare administrators	0
The Cuyahoga youth count: one county’s prevalence of and experience data from LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home placements	0
Associations between child protective services workers’ attitudes toward kinship foster care placement, sociodemographic characteristics, and job characteristics	0
Preparing to be a parent for a child with ‘hard-to-place characteristics’: a qualitative exploration of Romanian adopters’ experience during pre-adoption phase	0
Newcomer parents with child welfare histories: dilemmas of caring and control	0
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes	0
A balancing act: partnering with the media to provide a trauma-informed approach to U.S child welfare	0
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency	0
Exploring metacompetence in child welfare simulation training: toward a holistic model	0
Examining the role of the parent-caseworker relationship in child maltreatment decision-making	0
Long-term foster parenting: grief, loss, love, persistence, and growth in the face of tragedy and trauma	0
Community- and systems-level factors that contribute to foster care entry: Perspectives from child-serving professionals	0
Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review	0
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases	0
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020)	0
A holistic analysis of the effects on tangible domains of a multi-domain independent living program	0
Preliminary evaluation of a multicomponent youth development program for siblings separated by foster care: pandemic related impacts to service delivery and youth well-being	0
Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia	0
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities	0
Measuring school engagement for youth involved with the child welfare system: a structured review of the literature	0
A mixed methods study of how interprofessional communication relates to timely reunification in the U.S. child welfare system	0
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents	0
Development and validation of a self-assessment tool to assess resource parents’ personal attributes, knowledge, attitudes & behaviors around caring for teens (RPSAC-T): an exploratory study	0
“Resilience,” as Defined by Foster Youth and Key Stakeholders	0
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth	0
Resource parents during two pandemics: navigating racism and COVID-19	0
Beyond child abuse: the array of family problems brought to the child welfare system	0
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families	0
The Inclusion of Spirituality/Religion in Child Welfare Practice: Strengths and Barriers	0
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities	0
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals	0
Promoting racial equity and antiracist practice in child welfare: perceptions of public child welfare administrators	0
Examining the roles of rurality and Latine ethnic density on child maltreatment report and substantiation rates among Latine families: A county-level analysis	0
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover	0
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers	0
Foster Parent Perspectives and Experiences with Public Child Welfare	0
A comparison of child welfare outcomes and cost savings achieved in diverse implementation contexts with 30 days to Family® intervention	0
“They want to hear my voice”: facilitators of interprofessional collaboration among professionals supporting the education of children and youth in foster care	0
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice	0
Foster parents’ encounters with the system: the importance of child welfare workers’ traits in promoting satisfaction with the foster care system	0
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare	0
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care	0
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment	0
Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and child welfare outcomes in the United States	0
The determinants of responses to physical abuse among Armenian-American school teachers	0
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering	0
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings	0
A longitudinal investigation of infants and out-of-home care	0
Service provider perspectives on educational needs of students transitioning from foster care to permanency placements	0
Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states	0
Fostering a sense of belonging: The role of family terminology and discourse for individuals involved in non-kinship foster care	0
Investigations involving urgent protection concerns vs. chronic needs: are there differences in post-investigation service decisions?	0
Independent living skills program use and outcomes of youth in and aging out of foster care in Florida	0
From student engagement to school engagement of students: toward providing the luxury of engagement to youth involved with the child welfare system	0
The efficacy of a voluntary, community-based program in preventing recurrence of child maltreatment: Community Support for Families	0

Exploring child welfare worker wellbeing, organizational social context, and staff recommendations for change: a mixed method case study	0
Estimating a national college enrollment rate for youth with foster care histories using the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD): limitations of NYTD and a call to revise and relaunch	0
Perspectives and experiences of preschool teachers in preventing and intervening child abuse and neglect	0
US Child Welfare Practice During the COVID Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of Working Conditions, Practice Experiences, and Concerns	0
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection	0
Development and Application of a Self-Report Measure for Measuring Change During Simulation Training in Child Protection	0
Absorptive capacity in child welfare: a qualitative study with child welfare staff eliciting key factors for evidence-based practice adoption	0
Impact of visits on fostered children’s and families’ well-being: views of birth families, foster families and social workers	0
Do intensive specialized services prevent family separation in parents with intellectual disabilities? A treatment effects analysis	0
The effects of neighborhood factors, maternal depression and parental emotional support on social – behavioral outcomes of children involved in the child welfare system	0
A preliminary view of the use of telehealth in a child welfare agency during the pandemic	0
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school	0
Establishing centers of excellence: a primer for child welfare	0
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care	0
Understanding subgroups of child welfare placement histories in the context of youth behavior and development: a latent class analysis	0
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?	0
Exploring self-care practices in foster carers: a qualitative study	0
Peer models for families involved in the child welfare system: a systematic review	0
Building evidence for family group decision-making in child welfare: operationalizing the intervention	0
What makes a case difficult: Definitions from child welfare workers and implications for workload and caseload management	0
Using leisure in foster care to generate advantage	0
A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth	0
2021 Article of the Year	0
“My heart is in the right place, but I don’t feel the court’s heart is beating”: perspectives on feeling valued from multiple nonprofessional stakeholders in child welfare court	0
Connecting technical assistance to implementation progress in child welfare capacity building efforts	0
Centering unacknowledged histories: revisiting NABSW demands to repeal ASFA	0
Factors influencing the guidance of shared parenthood over time: Perspectives of foster care workers	0
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services	0
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England	0
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis	0
Caring for children in foster and kinship care during a pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations	0
How to protect those who protect: psychosocial risks in child welfare workers during the pandemic	0
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective	0
A statewide integrated child welfare coaching and mentoring program: Mentored workers’ perception of quality, impact, and satisfaction	0
“There’s so much history”: shared parenting dynamics in kinship families	0
Indigenous-centered racial disproportionality in American foster care: a national population study	0
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System	0
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning	0