Re: reunification rates for substance exposed infants

[rbarth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rick Barth)]

Bill: Everything varies by state.  There are no national data about this--in part
because of the difficulty of assessing who is substance abused.  The maternal
lifestyle study (MLS) led by Barry Lester (at Brown) has the best information
about outcomes for substance exposed newborns, in general, and they have done
presentations on the variability of foster care experiences by community.  Fred
Wulczyn's work using the Multi-State Data Archive is the best on the reunification
rates for infants, I think, although there are no variables indicating substtance
exposed.  His reports can be located on Chapin Hall's new website.  You would want
to look at the adoption findings, there, too, because about one-third of infants
will not reunify--they will be adopted. 

Rick

Richard P. Barth, Ph.D.
Frank A Daniels Professor and Chair of the Doctoral Program
School of Social Work  TTK 524J
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3550
919 962 6516 (v), 919 962 1486 (f), rbarth@unc.edu

From: bill higgins <bill_higginsus@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:40:59 -0800 (PST)
Subject: reunification rates for substance exposed infants
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers   <CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
Reply-To: CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu

Where can I find the percentage of substance exposed
children returned home?  I would like to also know if
this percentage varies by state?  Thank you in
advance.

B. Higgins

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