Every Child Deserves a Permanent Home: The Permanency Innovations Initiative

Autor/inn/en	Testa, Mark; Woodruff, Kristen; Bess, Roseana; Milner, Jerry; Woolverton, Maria
Titel	Every Child Deserves a Permanent Home: The Permanency Innovations Initiative
Quelle	In: Future of Children, 29 (2019) 1, S.145-162 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1054-8289
Schlagwörter	Child Abuse; Child Neglect; Child Welfare; Foster Care; Intervention; Program Implementation; Program Evaluation; Formative Evaluation; Summative Evaluation; Barriers; Placement; Prevention; Evidence Based Practice; Illinois; Kansas; Nevada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindesvernachlässigung; Kindeswohl; Pflegehilfe; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Prävention; Vorbeugung
Abstract	About one-fifth of children involved in investigations for abuse or neglect are placed in foster care. Although some return to their families quickly, others may remain in foster care for years without permanent family relationships. In this article, Mark Testa, Kristen Woodruff, Roseana Bess, Jerry Milner, and Maria Woolverton examine the Permanency Innovations Initiative (PII), a federally funded effort that tested innovative programs designed to prevent children from experiencing long stays in foster care and to build evidence for strategies that can be brought to scale in child welfare. PII aimed to follow a four-phase model for selecting, implementing, and testing interventions, including "exploration and installation, initial implementation and formative evaluation, full implementation and summative evaluation, and replication and adaptation." The results of the initiative were not encouraging. Some sites were never able to move to the full implementation phase. Others had significant trouble with participation rates. Two sites that were able to experimentally evaluate a fully implemented intervention found no significant differences between the treatment and comparison groups in achieving stable and permanent homes for children, and a third site found that the experimental results actually favored the comparison group. The authors "principal finding" is that "none of the promising innovations tested in this initiative yielded meaningful improvements in… stable permanence when rigorously evaluated." Discussing the implications for child welfare programs in general, they raise a fundamental issue: Should such programs primarily deal with maltreatment only after it has occurred? Or should they also work to prevent maltreatment from happening in the first place through early, universal interventions that strengthen protective factors within families? (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and The Brookings Institution. 267 Wallace Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. Tel: 609-258-6979; e-mail: FOC@princeton.edu; Web site: http://futureofchildren.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01