Current as of:
The Children's Bureau funds and supports research initiatives and submits mandated reports to Congress to better disseminate child welfare information as well as improve practices and policies.
Child Abuse Prevention
- Building Capacity to Evaluate Child Welfare Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families (CWCC)
- Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse
- Family Preservation and Family Support Services Program (FP/FS) — This study evaluates how states and communities implemented the FP/FS program, the ways in which program implementation changed the pre-existing service delivery system, and the effects this had on service delivery.
Adoption and Foster Care
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) Adoption Follow-Up Study: Findings Report (hhs.gov)
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
- Understanding Postadoption and Guardianship Instability for Children and Youth Who Exit Foster Care
- Chafee Strengthening Outcomes for Transition to Adulthood (Chafee SOTA)
- Planning a Next Generation Evaluation Agenda for the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Program: Phase II
- A Report to Congress on States' Use of Waivers of Non-Safety Licensing Standards for Relative Foster Family Homes — This report describes States' data on the number of children in foster care placed in relative foster family homes. It also includes information on the types of non-safety licensing standards waived and states' strategies for increasing licensing among relative caregivers.
- Chafee Independent Living Evaluation Project — This project identifies programs that can be rigorously evaluated and determines the effects of the Chafee Foster Care Independence program in achieving key outcomes for participating youth.
Child Welfare
- Supporting Evidence Building in Child Welfare
- Spotlight: Understanding Judicial Decision-Making and Hearing Quality in Child Welfare
- State Child Welfare Data Linkages Descriptive Study
- Child Welfare Study to Enhance Equity with Data (CW-SEED)
- Building Capacity to Evaluation Interventions for Youth/Young Adults At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH)
- Domestic Human Trafficking and the Child Welfare Population
- Expanding Evidence on Replicable Recovery and Reunification Interventions for Families
- Child Welfare Systems' Responses to Children of Color — This project examines the child welfare system's response to children of color and identifies practices that address perceived racial or cultural disparities within the system. It also pilots studies on policies and practices regarding services for children of color in the child welfare system.
- Implementation of Promoting Safe and Stable Families by Indian Tribes (PSSF) — The purpose of this study was to examine the ways in which Indian tribes used funds received under title IV-B, subpart 2 to provide services that strengthen families' abilities to care for their children.
- National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) — The purpose of NSCAW was to assess what happens to the children and families who come in contact with the child welfare system.
Child Abuse and Neglect
- Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages
- Definitions and Policies Related to the Incidence of Child Abuse and Neglect and Related Risk
- Secondary Analysis for the National Incidence of Child Maltreatment
- Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4) — The study provides updated estimates of the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the United States.
- LONGSCAN Reports — The website of the Consortium of Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) provides information about the study, sample demographics, measures used.