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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.&nbsp; For example:&nbsp; <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>&nbsp;</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 &lt;tmac5528@yahoo.com&gt;<br>To: Child Maltreatment Researchers &lt;child-maltreatment-research-l@list.cornell.edu&gt;; 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?&nbsp; i am interested in the demographics for youth in out of home placements.&nbsp; </div>  <div>&nbsp;</div>  <div>TM<br><br><b><i>Rick Barth &lt;rbarth@email.unc.edu&gt;</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>&gt; Many of the states with very high rates of removal have some things in <br>&gt; common: they are rural states, many of them in the prairie/plains <br>&gt; region of the U.S. One explanation that is offered is that services <br>&gt; are less available in rural areas, particularly what in the northern <br>&gt; plains are called "frontier counties." However, I live in North Dakota <br>&gt; and am watching the development of a child welfare funding dispute <br>&gt; between the most populous county and the
 state. One fact that
 has <br>&gt; emerged is that, with about a fifth of the state's population, the <br>&gt; county has about half the kids who are wards of the state (parental <br>&gt; rights have been terminated). The county also has 27% of the state's <br>&gt; foster children. Right now I have no information as to where these <br>&gt; cases originated--but my impression is that generally cases stay in <br>&gt; the county where they started. State officials are developing a report <br>&gt; at this time which may provide some answers to the demographics in the <br>&gt; state.<br>&gt; <br>&gt; I'm not convinced that political culture has much to do with it. <br>&gt; Politically conservative states with minimal investment in human <br>&gt; services have placement rates similar to politically more liberal <br>&gt; states with much more substantial investment. The Dakotas, Montana, <br>&gt; Nebraska--compared with Minnesota, Iowa. But is there a distinct <br>&gt; cultural
 viewpoint--not
 specifically related to child welfare but <br>&gt; ultimately impacting child welfare decisions? (In that case, is it <br>&gt; possible that looking at CA/N factors is not always the right place to <br>&gt; look???)<br>&gt; <br>&gt; I'm wondering what kind of handle anyone has on rural vs. urban out of <br>&gt; home placement rates relative to child population within states. The <br>&gt; thoughts that come to me are:<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Urban areas are associated with greater range of problems--but also <br>&gt; have more access to services other than out of home placement.<br>&gt; Population characteristics of rural vs. urban regions within in states <br>&gt; that are significantly rural.<br>&gt; Local culture in rural counties (on the one hand, lack of services <br>&gt; leads to removal, on the other hand, reluctance to interfere in <br>&gt; families' lives and/or cultural assumptions about families in <br>&gt; communities where families have lived for
 generations)<br>&gt;
 Diversity (or lack thereof, or degree of cultural barriers between <br>&gt; diverse groups--in these states, native American populations vs white <br>&gt; definitely come to mind)<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Sheri McMahon<br><br><br><br></blockquote><br><p> 
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