Re: stats on number of placements

[rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rick Barth)]

Daniel Webster, Barbara Needell and I have a paper forthcoming in Child Welfare
that followed young children who remained in foster care for at least 6 years
(about one quarter of the population in CA) and examined how many placements they
had by their age and kinship/non kinship status.  We also modeled placement
instability (3 or more moves) to see what contributed.  Daniel has the best and
final version--he's generally reachable at UC Berkeley, School of Social Welfare,
dwebster@fwrg1.berkeley.edu, although the last I heard from him he was heading off
on a honeymoon, so.....



Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor 
Jordan Institute for Families
School of Social Work
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University of North Carolina
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