Foster Care Can Spark Modest Improvements in Child Well-Being, New Research Shows
Posted July 1, 2016, By the Annie E. Casey Foundation
For decades, communities have intervened to help children who have
been abused and neglected, even without clear data to know which
interventions, if any, have worked. According to new research from Kids Insight,
a nonprofit grantee of the Casey Foundation, the well-being of many
children in foster care improves while in custody. However, a minority
of kids still struggle and agencies need to find innovative approaches
to effectively meet their needs.
Kids Insight used the Treatment Outcome Package (TOP)
questionnaire, an assessment tool on child well-being, in Colorado,
Ohio, North Carolina and Delaware to measure how kids, on average, were
doing when they entered care compared to how they were faring at defined
points after spending time in care.
“The insights provided by TOP are pretty amazing,” says Tracey Feild, director of Casey's Child Welfare Strategy Group. “While improvements are small, they exist and in many cases are statistically significant.”
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