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Who Are the Infants in Out-of-Home Care

 

Racial Disproportionality in Child Welfare 

 

 

View Recording from Thursday's Child, May 12, 2011: Extending Foster Care to Age 21 

 

 

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research_blockWho Are the Infants in Out-of-Home Care? An Epidemiological and Developmental Snapshot

Studying children in out-of-home care is laden with challenges. One of these challenges lies in the fact that there is considerable diversity in this population of children. In this brief, we argue that infants represent a distinctive subset of the out-of-home care population with unique needs and strengths.

 

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Race and Child Welfare

Chapin Hall and Harvard Law School's Child Advocacy Program co-sponsored an invitational conference in January 2011 addressing what has been generally characterized as racial disproportionality in child welfare. A central debate in the field regarding high black representation in the child welfare system has revolved around whether there is a black/white maltreatment gap and the implications the answer to this question has for why contact with the child welfare system, including placement in foster care, is so much higher among black children.


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media_blockRecording of Thursday's Child on May 12

Watch or listen to a recording of the recent Thursday's Child -- Extending Foster Care to Age 21: Implications for Providers, Impact on Budgets.  



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news_block Advanced Analytics for Child Welfare Administration

Chapin Hall and the Center for State Foster Care and Adoption Data are pleased to offer Advanced Analytics for Child Welfare Administration, a five-day course for child welfare managers, on October 10-14, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois.  

 

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