Timing of Permanency Exits from Out-of-Home Care:
The Importance of Systems and Implications for Assessing
Accountability for Permanency Outcomes
Observers have long noted significant between- and within-state differences in the likelihood that children entering care will experience legal permanency and how long it takes for them to do so. Better understanding of the reasons for these differences between geographic jurisdictions in outcomes is important for improving outcomes generally and for improving efforts to hold child welfare agencies accountable for outcomes. This study looked at how children's involvement in the dependency court process is related to the timing of achieving reunification, adoption or guardianship in Washington State. For more information about the study and its findings, please click here. Save the Date: On July 16, this information will be offered at the 14th ABA National Conference on Children and the Law in Washington, D.C. "Place Matters: Three Applications of Practice Improvement and Data Collection to Enhance Dependency Case Outcomes," will be presented by POC advisor and Chapin Hall Affiliated Scholar Mark Courtney. |
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From Evidence to Practice - Case Resolution Meetings
 This month, our Evidence to Practice brief highlights the Case Resolution Meeting, a practice innovation that brings together key players in a case - including legal parties - to identify barriers to permanency for children who have been in care longer than 15 months and to brainstorm pathways to permanency for these children. Click here for our Evidence to Practice brief on case resolution meetings. |
FCAP Seminars
Posted!
The slides and video for the May 6 seminar, "Linking Evidence to Child Welfare Supervision" presented by Katharine Dill, PhD, are posted. Click here to access them.
Save the Date
November 3, 2011, 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.
David Rubin, M.D. is scheduled to present on the impact of placement stability on child well-being for children in out of home care. Additional information about this event will be distributed as we get closer to the date.
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ESSB 5656 - The Washington State Indian Child Welfare Act: What You Should Know
 Recently, the 2011 Washington State Legislature passed ESSB 5656, the Washington State Indian Child Welfare Act. POC asked two members of the state's Indian child welfare community for background and comments on the effects of this act. Tom Tremaine, attorney with the Northwest Justice Project, gave enlightening background for context. David Simmons, director of government affairs for NICWA, provided NICWA's commentary on the impact of this bill for Indian child welfare. Click here to access this supplemental POC newsletter article. |
