Journal of Public Child Welfare

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Public Child Welfare is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Examining prevalence and predictors of food insecurity for transition-age youth transitioning out of foster care13
Bridging justice expectations in child protection: media influence and societal bias12
State investment in Title IV-E stipend programs and child length of stay in foster care: a national study12
Improving foster carer recruitment in Victoria: a mixed-methods approach to support tailored recruitment efforts12
Examining the use of foster care during emerging adulthood in the United States7
Children removed for inadequate housing are less likely to be reunified than peers: analysis from AFCARS data7
Experiences of perceived support post discharge among foster care alumni: differences among LGBTQ+ youth and youth of color6
2022 Article of the Year5
“Unfortunately what’s right isn’t always what’s best”: Exploring teacher and school staff experiences with mandated reporting5
Sexual identity development and sexual well-being: differences between racial/ethnic minority and non-racial/ethnic minority former foster youth5
CaseAIM: child welfare workers’ experiences using information and communication technology for case management services4
Enhancing Behavioral Health Services for Child Welfare-Involved Parents: A Qualitative Study4
Integrating trauma-informed practices in child welfare: a process study of graduate education4
STRENGTHS-BASED CASE MANAGEMENT4
Retrospective narratives of challenges experienced during adolescence and young adulthood after child welfare-involvement4
Information needs of current and prospective foster caregivers: a content analysis of Reddit posts4
Child maltreatment in Swiss welfare care until 1981: former caregivers’ perspectives on the welfare context3
Youth engagement in permanency planning within tribal child welfare systems: a qualitative study of current practice3
Children hospitalized for suspected maltreatment in Greece: who, why and what for?3
Adoptive parents’ perspectives on adoption adjustment and post-adoption support3
Understanding the roles and challenges of child protection employees in out-of-home care arrangements for children of minority and immigrant backgrounds in Rogaland, Norway3
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 maltreat3
An examination of child welfare agency models that serve immigrant children and families3
Differences in developmental problems between victims of different types of child maltreatment3
Child and state factors in positive permanency: a multi-level survival analysis3
A principles-based approach to evaluating family engagement group strategies: Lessons from a IV-E Waiver Demonstration Project3
Impact of COVID-19 on child welfare practice and implications for future practice: perspectives from youth, family, frontline workers, and other professionals2
Barriers to the involvement of extended family and fictive kin in the lives of children in foster care2
Effectiveness of parent–infant psychotherapy for infant development, parenting, parental mental health, and the attachment relationship: a review of the literature2
Mandatory reporting of child abuse/neglect among substance use counselors2
Qualitative exploration of child welfare workers’ decision-making experiences and perspectives on fairness2
“Unachievable adulthood?!” – exploring family formation journeys of care leavers in China2
Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment: a mediating role of parenting aggravation2
Family poverty, family adversity, neglect, and entry into out-of-home care2
Intersectionality and the Overrepresentation of Black Women, children, and families in the child welfare system: A scoping review2
2020 Article of the Year2
The caseworker as an external locus of hope for LGB youth in foster care2
Supporting the educational success of children in foster care: the educational advocacy program2
Sinking or swimming: perspectives of the children without placement crisis2
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Child Welfare and Court: Identifying Challenges and Implications to Move Social Work Practice Forward2
Facilitators and barriers of using mental health services among children in foster care: insights from foster parents in a Southeastern state2
To report or not report? How attitudes, values, and knowledge play a role in mandated reporting2
Everyone benefits when there is another MSW in child welfare: exploring ways to support Title IV-E MSW student-employees2
“Siblings must stick together”: Chilean parents’ perspectives on sibling group adoption and post-adoption contact2
Examining a decade of Title IV-E outcomes: a scoping review1
Response to violence committed by children at welfare facilities: evidence from Japan1
Interprofessional collaborations in child welfare: providers’ experiences1
Behavioral health and legal system involvement among transition-age youth in foster care: a longitudinal analysis of youth in California1
Community- and systems-level factors that contribute to foster care entry: Perspectives from child-serving professionals1
Transformative lessons learned from COVID-19 to reimagine child welfare work1
Foster parents’ need for greater information sharing when caring for children with prenatal substance exposure within child welfare1
Do online parenting blogs discourage psychological maltreatment and corporal punishment?1
Understanding the health and well-being of adults 10-15 years after adoption from the US foster care system1
Exploring alternative care options for children in China: recent developments and challenges1
Technology-Based Smoking Cessation for Youth Exiting Foster Care: A Pilot Randomized Trial1
The problems of social preparedness of orphanage graduates in Kazakhstan1
“Why is my skin so intimidating to you?”: Exploring social connectivity and racial identity of youth of color with foster care experience1
Impact of COVID-19 on the educational experiences of youth in foster care: caseworker perspectives1
Independent living skills program use and outcomes of youth in and aging out of foster care in Florida1
Who are our caregivers? An assessment of the characteristics of foster parents at certain foster parenting milestones across two states1
Economic impact of CarePortal donations in Glynn County, Georgia1
A mixed methods study of how interprofessional communication relates to timely reunification in the U.S. child welfare system1
Reverse visitation between former foster parents and adopted children1
Evaluation of the Strong Foundations training for the child welfare supervisor1
Foster caregivers in crisis: a comparison study of the perceptions of foster caregivers and child welfare workers1
A comparison of video and live performance approaches in a school-based sexual abuse prevention program1
A cross-country comparison of child welfare system between Korea and the United States1
Assessing appeals against emergency placements in Norway: A balancing act1
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 relaunch1
Utilizing focus groups to inform the development of a standardized pre-certification resource parent training curriculum1
Exploring Organizational Learning, Risk, and Psychological Safety: Perspectives of Child Welfare Senior Leaders in Canada1
Diagnostic disparities among maltreated youth in a child protective services agency1
Court-level stakeholders’ reunification decisions and perceived role in parents’ readiness to support early emotional development post-abuse and/or neglect1
Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019–2020)1
Supervision in child welfare: Its importance to investigators and case managers1
Experiences of Psychologists in Applying Mandatory Reporting in Ireland (Children First)1
Attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of child welfare workers toward LGBTQ youth1
Navigating the child welfare system: the role of enhanced parent advocacy supports in child protection0
Long-term foster parenting: grief, loss, love, persistence, and growth in the face of tragedy and trauma0
The impact of title IV-E training on public child welfare turnover0
Preparing to be a parent for a child with ‘hard-to-place characteristics’: a qualitative exploration of Romanian adopters’ experience during pre-adoption phase0
Resource parents during two pandemics: navigating racism and COVID-190
What makes a case difficult: Definitions from child welfare workers and implications for workload and caseload management0
Navigating the context of uncertainty in child protection practice0
The efficacy of a voluntary, community-based program in preventing recurrence of child maltreatment: Community Support for Families0
Impact of visits on fostered children’s and families’ well-being: views of birth families, foster families and social workers0
Factors influencing the guidance of shared parenthood over time: Perspectives of foster care workers0
Exploring metacompetence in child welfare simulation training: toward a holistic model0
Physiological evidence of escalating stress during COVID-19: a longitudinal assessment of child welfare workers0
Understanding subgroups of child welfare placement histories in the context of youth behavior and development: a latent class analysis0
Examining the impact of participation in a foster parent support program on child welfare outcomes in Georgia0
Development and validation of a new scale to assess motivations for fostering0
Examining the role of the parent-caseworker relationship in child maltreatment decision-making0
How to protect those who protect: psychosocial risks in child welfare workers during the pandemic0
“Resilience,” as Defined by Foster Youth and Key Stakeholders0
Caring for children in foster and kinship care during a pandemic: lessons learned and recommendations0
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care0
The Cuyahoga youth count: one county’s prevalence of and experience data from LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home placements0
Burnout, resilience, and retention of child protection caseworkers0
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): Where we’ve been, where we’re headed, and where we need to go0
Perspectives and experiences of preschool teachers in preventing and intervening child abuse and neglect0
A longitudinal investigation of infants and out-of-home care0
Kinship Care: Evaluating Policy and Practice0
A comparison of child welfare outcomes and cost savings achieved in diverse implementation contexts with 30 days to Family® intervention0
Using a structured decision-making model to inform child welfare practice in Florida: safety versus removal0
Navigating the world of work: experiences and perspectives of care leavers in China0
“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 court0
Secondary traumatic stress and posttraumatic growth among foster parents0
Development and Application of a Self-Report Measure for Measuring Change During Simulation Training in Child Protection0
Child welfare futures: toward more poverty responsive child welfare services0
“There’s so much history”: shared parenting dynamics in kinship families0
US Child Welfare Practice During the COVID Pandemic: An Exploratory Study of Working Conditions, Practice Experiences, and Concerns0
Foster parent factors associated with placement stability: An umbrella review0
Measuring school engagement for youth involved with the child welfare system: a structured review of the literature0
Disparities in Mental Health Service Referrals in Child Sexual Abuse Cases0
Fostering a sense of belonging: The role of family terminology and discourse for individuals involved in non-kinship foster care0
Newcomer parents with child welfare histories: dilemmas of caring and control0
Centering unacknowledged histories: revisiting NABSW demands to repeal ASFA0
2021 Article of the Year0
Examining the feasibility and acceptability of an online mindfulness-based stress reduction program for frontline child protection social workers in England0
Are county-level child welfare vulnerability and protective factors associated with child welfare involvement?: an investigation of geospatial child welfare equity0
Reproductive Justice for young Black women aging out of foster care0
Comparing population views on state responsibility for children in vulnerable situations – the role of institutional context and socio-demographic characteristics0
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
Safeguarding children with disabilities: a life course perspective0
Promoting racial equity and antiracist practice in child welfare: perceptions of public child welfare administrators0
Imagining a new future: elimination of child support obligations for child welfare-involved families0
A preliminary view of the use of telehealth in a child welfare agency during the pandemic0
According to their own accounts: former child welfare involved youth recalling their participation in child protective services interviews that occurred at school0
From student engagement to school engagement of students: toward providing the luxury of engagement to youth involved with the child welfare system0
Using leisure in foster care to generate advantage0
Using procedural justice theory to understand public perceptions of child protection0
Inviting Plain Mennonite and Amish families to provide foster care for children0
A multi-year study of camp-based reunification and the well-being of siblings separated by out-of-home care0
Child protection and safety concerns: some evidence from Ghana0
State variations in child maltreatment reports among adolescents in the United States0
Synergistic benefits of inclusive leadership to foster child welfare workers’ job self-efficacy: race matters0
Intersections for justice: conceptualizing justice-centered child welfare practice0
Establishing centers of excellence: a primer for child welfare0
Identifying the essential competencies for court professionals to promote youth engagement in permanency planning in court hearings0
A statewide integrated child welfare coaching and mentoring program: Mentored workers’ perception of quality, impact, and satisfaction0
“They want to hear my voice”: facilitators of interprofessional collaboration among professionals supporting the education of children and youth in foster care0
Reinstating Parental Rights That Have Been Terminated: Finding Ways to Restore Legal Connections for Children Who Had Been in Foster Care0
Child maltreatment prevention interventions for Latinx immigrant populations: a systematic review0
Maltreatment of children with disabilities in the United States0
Child’s adjustment and parent-child contact after child placement into foster care: a systematic review0
Connecting children and youth with their families during COVID-19: perspectives of child welfare workers and foster parents0
A mixed-methods evaluative study of the life model of residential care for trauma-affected children and youth0
Building trust with children in collaborative processes within in-home child welfare services0
The use of mental health services among children in kinship care: an application of Andersen’s Behavioral Model for Health Services Use0
A fight to work with families, rather than against them: exploring social workers’ experiences of working within the family safeguarding model; an IPA analysis0
The future of child welfare will look toward children’s health: the case of the Kentucky Health Information Data Sharing (KHIDS) project0
Adoption from the perspective of Iranian fertile mothers: a qualitative study0
Experiences with and perceptions of the child welfare system during the perinatal period of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities0
Poverty and child maltreatment: a systematic review0
Examining Employment Outcomes of Recently Hired, Older Workers in the Child Welfare Workforce0
Examining the roles of rurality and Latine ethnic density on child maltreatment report and substantiation rates among Latine families: A county-level analysis0
A Multiple-Path Model of Workforce Development for Improving the Fidelity of Family Team Conference in the Child Welfare System0
Preliminary evaluation of a multicomponent youth development program for siblings separated by foster care: pandemic related impacts to service delivery and youth well-being0
The socio-technical organization of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in child welfare0
Exploring child welfare worker wellbeing, organizational social context, and staff recommendations for change: a mixed method case study0
Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and child welfare outcomes in the United States0
Indigenous-centered racial disproportionality in American foster care: a national population study0
Foster parents’ encounters with the system: the importance of child welfare workers’ traits in promoting satisfaction with the foster care system0
The determinants of responses to physical abuse among Armenian-American school teachers0
COVID-19 and resource families: an examination of ongoing impact and disparities0
The Inclusion of Spirituality/Religion in Child Welfare Practice: Strengths and Barriers0
Exploring self-care practices in foster carers: a qualitative study0
Service referral decisions for children involved in the child welfare system: modeling the decision-making ecology framework using latent profile analysis0
Evaluation of a Brief Foster Parent/ Case Worker Training to Support Relationship Building Skills and Acceptance of LGBTQ+ Youth in Care0
A holistic analysis of the effects on tangible domains of a multi-domain independent living program0
Attention to disability in child protection policies across four liberal welfare regimes0
Resilient Outcomes among Youth Aging-Out of Foster Care: Findings from the National Youth in Transition Database0
Do intensive specialized services prevent family separation in parents with intellectual disabilities? A treatment effects analysis0
Emotional abuse, an invisible aspect in Norwegian child welfare documents0
Analyzing decision-maker’s justifications of care orders for newborn children: equal and individualized treatment0
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 study0
Beyond child abuse: the array of family problems brought to the child welfare system0
Incorporating data-driven decision making in family preservation: an examination of recurrence rates, case reviews, and lessons learned0
Connecting technical assistance to implementation progress in child welfare capacity building efforts0
Factors leading to foster care reentry: experiences of housing unstable families0
Absorptive capacity in child welfare: a qualitative study with child welfare staff eliciting key factors for evidence-based practice adoption0
Which participation practices can be found in child welfare service records?0
A balancing act: partnering with the media to provide a trauma-informed approach to U.S child welfare0
Associations between child protective services workers’ attitudes toward kinship foster care placement, sociodemographic characteristics, and job characteristics0
Exploring the relationship between child welfare workers’ wellbeing, attitude towards responsibility for child safety, and their assessment of risk of future child maltreatment: a case study0
Exploring the relationships between self-care and well-being outcomes among child welfare professionals0
Peer models for families involved in the child welfare system: a systematic review0
Service provider perspectives on educational needs of students transitioning from foster care to permanency placements0
What’s on your mind? The effects of an attachment-based intervention on residential youth workers’ reflexive functioning0
A propensity score matched pair outcome evaluation of a parenting program for dually involved youth0
Leveraging Qualified Residential Treatment Program requirements to facilitate data driven decision-making: a guide for child welfare administrators0
Identifying children at risk for maltreatment fatalities: assessing the current landscape of birth match policies in the United States0
Investigations involving urgent protection concerns vs. chronic needs: are there differences in post-investigation service decisions?0
Supporting LGBTQIA+ youth in foster care: Considerations for FosterCARE training0
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