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Re: child welfare demographics - by county
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<html><style type="text/css"><!-- .posab {_position:absolute;} --></style> <DIV UNSELECTABLE='on' ID="blpr" class=posab STYLE="position: absolute; left:0px; top:0px; z-index: 6; visibility: visible;"><Img Height=3000 Width=100% Src=http://www.readnotify.com/cache/blanka1x1.png></DIV><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body UNSELECTABLE='on' ><div style="font-family:courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Does this help?<br><br><span><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm05/cm05.pdf";>http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/pubs/cm05/cm05.pdf</a><br><br><span>Also, you can look for statistics by county usually at your state child welfare website. For example: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.dfcsdata.dhr.state.ga.us/";>http://www.dfcsdata.dhr.state.ga.us/</a></span><br></span><br><div> </div>--------------------------<br>Thanking you in
advance,<br><br>(Mrs.) Dorothy Kernaghan-Baez<br>Georgia Family Rights, Inc.<br>811 Aumond Place East<br>Augusta, Georgia 30909<br><br>Phone 706-533-6522<br>Fax 706-738-0905<br>Email dorothybaez@yahoo.com<div style="font-family: courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div
style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Todd McDonald <tmac5528@yahoo.com><br>To: Child Maltreatment Researchers <child-maltreatment-research-l@list.cornell.edu>; rbarth@ssw.umaryland.edu<br>Sent: Monday, March 3, 2008 11:53:12 AM<br>Subject: Re: child welfare demographics - by county<br><br><div>List Members, is there a way to look at county statistics for child welfare populations on line? i am interested in the demographics for youth in out of home placements. </div> <div> </div> <div>TM<br><br><b><i>Rick Barth <rbarth@email.unc.edu></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px;">There is certainly coonsiderable data on this question --Fred Wulczyn <br>has recently written about rural urban differences from the perspective <br>of disparity and
disproportionality (see th Chapin Hall website for <br>leads) and my colleagues and I have published about this in the American <br>Journal of Orthopsychiatry, in 2006, using NSCAW as our source of <br>information. In that analysis we showed that children and families in <br>urban areas who enter foster care have very different characteristics <br>than those in nonurban areas--with children in nonurban areas being much
<br>more likely to have clinical or borderline CBCL scores and families less <br>likely to have the typical indicators of parental incapacity (such <br>indicators as extreme poverty, substance abuse, domestic violence and so <br>on).<br><br>So, your hypothesis that looking at the limits of looking at this <br>through a child abuse and neglect lens is confirmed. The entire basis <br>for the CFSR and our national accountability system is that children who <br>come into contact with CWS are similar across settings and the variation <br>is in how the agency performs in achieving a fixed set of outcomes for <br>them; nothing could be much farther from the truth. Although there are <br>some commonalities acros areas--e.g., infants and adolescents are the <br>largest relative groups entering out of home care and African American <br>and Native American children are more likely to enter out of home <br>care--there are huge differences in the caseloads and,
hence, any effort <br>to
apply the CFSR outcomes to "incentivize" best practice should be <br>highly restricted and balanced by a range of indicators of best <br>practice. In time, we should move toward different indicators for <br>children who come into contact with CWS at different ages.<br><br>Richard P. Barth, PhD<br>Dean and Professor<br>School of Social Work<br>University of Maryland<br>Baltimore, MD 21201<br>rbarth@ssw.umaryland.edu<br><br>D F MCMAHON wrote:<br><br>> Many of the states with very high rates of removal have some things in <br>> common: they are rural states, many of them in the prairie/plains <br>> region of the U.S. One explanation that is offered is that services <br>> are less available in rural areas, particularly what in the northern <br>> plains are called "frontier counties." However, I live in North Dakota <br>> and am watching the development of a child welfare funding dispute <br>> between the most populous county and the
state. One fact that
has <br>> emerged is that, with about a fifth of the state's population, the <br>> county has about half the kids who are wards of the state (parental <br>> rights have been terminated). The county also has 27% of the state's <br>> foster children. Right now I have no information as to where these <br>> cases originated--but my impression is that generally cases stay in <br>> the county where they started. State officials are developing a report <br>> at this time which may provide some answers to the demographics in the <br>> state.<br>> <br>> I'm not convinced that political culture has much to do with it. <br>> Politically conservative states with minimal investment in human <br>> services have placement rates similar to politically more liberal <br>> states with much more substantial investment. The Dakotas, Montana, <br>> Nebraska--compared with Minnesota, Iowa. But is there a distinct <br>> cultural
viewpoint--not
specifically related to child welfare but <br>> ultimately impacting child welfare decisions? (In that case, is it <br>> possible that looking at CA/N factors is not always the right place to <br>> look???)<br>> <br>> I'm wondering what kind of handle anyone has on rural vs. urban out of <br>> home placement rates relative to child population within states. The <br>> thoughts that come to me are:<br>> <br>> Urban areas are associated with greater range of problems--but also <br>> have more access to services other than out of home placement.<br>> Population characteristics of rural vs. urban regions within in states <br>> that are significantly rural.<br>> Local culture in rural counties (on the one hand, lack of services <br>> leads to removal, on the other hand, reluctance to interfere in <br>> families' lives and/or cultural assumptions about families in <br>> communities where families have lived for
generations)<br>>
Diversity (or lack thereof, or degree of cultural barriers between <br>> diverse groups--in these states, native American populations vs white <br>> definitely come to mind)<br>> <br>> Sheri McMahon<br><br><br><br></blockquote><br><p>
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