Re: Costs of Child Welfare Services

[rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rick Barth)]

Dear Colleagues:  We are endeavoring to develop cost and value comparisons for
children who are adopted vs. "similarly situated children" who remain in foster
care  who are not adopted.  

I am wondering whether others have estimates of any of the following:

1. The value of foster parent or adoptive parent contributions above and beyond
the reimbursement/subsidy payment
2.  The per child/per year cost of independent living services (for all children
or just for those who use the service)
3. The cost of specialty services provided by the government above and beyond the
foster care payment (we have an idea about this for adopted children)
4.  The cost per year of out of home care (reimbursement rate) by age (e.g., what
do 14 year olds cost, what do 17 years olds cost, on average).  We will calculate
this in our state-level work but would value some comparisons.

Thanks for considering this request.

Rick

Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor and
Chair of the Doctoral Program
School of Social Work
301 Pittsboro Rd
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3550
(v) 919 962 6516
(f)        962 1486

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From: BRubin525@aol.com
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:34:10 EST
Subject: Re: Parent Training for Child Welfare Families
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers   <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu

The Webster-Stratton Videotape Series has been identified as one of the top 
two intervention programs for conduct disordered children by the Journal of 
Clinical Psychology (the other was Gerald Patterson's program).  An advantage 
of this program is that interns and untrained staff can facilitate the parent 
training programs reasonably well.  

Bart Rubin, Ph.D.
Berkeley,California


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