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Specifying cross-system collaboration strategies for implementation: a multi-site qualitative study with child welfare and behavioral health organizations
BackgroundCross-system interventions that integrate health, behavioral health, and social services can improve client outcomes and expand community...
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A Systematic Review of Interventions to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence Among Young People in Child Welfare and Legal System Settings
PurposeIntimate partner violence (IPV) interventions for young people involved with the child welfare and legal systems are critical. However,...
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From Scientific Research to Practical Implementations: Applications to Improve Data Quality in Child Welfare
Child welfare decisions have life-impacting consequences which, often times, are underpinned by limited or inadequate data and poor quality. Though...
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Training health professionals to reduce overreporting of birthing people who use drugs to child welfare
BackgroundHealth care providers are a key source of reports of infants to child welfare related to birthing people’s substance use. Many of these...
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Applying after-action reviews to child and family teams to improve mental health service linkage within child welfare services: a study protocol
BackgroundHalf of child-welfare-involved children and adolescents meet the criteria for at least one mental health diagnosis. This project proposes...
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Videoconferencing in mental health services for children and adolescents receiving child welfare services: a sco** review
BackgroundVideoconferencing is considered an alternative to face-to-face consultations and a possibility to help overcome access-to-care barriers in...
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Patterns of Social Determinants of Health and Publicly-Funded Service Access among Children Involved in Educational, Child Welfare, and Social Service Systems
Social determinants of health (SDOH)—conditions in which children live, learn, and play—affect child health and well-being. Publicly funded services...
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Factors affecting child welfare and protection workers' intention to quit: a cross-sectional study from Norway
IntroductionHigh turnover rates have been a problem for Norwegian child welfare and protection services for years. The main aim of this study was to...
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Evaluation of “Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools” (CBITS) in child welfare programs in Germany: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
BackgroundChildren and adolescents growing up in child welfare institutions have been frequently exposed to traumatic events and psychosocial stress...
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‘There’s a will, but not a way’: Norwegian GPs’ experiences of collaboration with child welfare services – a grounded theory study
BackgroundAdverse childhood experiences can have immediate effects on a child’s wellbeing and health and may also result in disorders and illness in...
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“Something’s got to give”: A Qualitative Exploration of Policies and Practices by Child Welfare Services in Cases of Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Ontario, Canada
PurposeChild welfare service provision in Ontario, Canada has evolved significantly over the last two decades, especially regarding child exposure to...
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Implementation and Mental Health Outcomes of a Service Cascade Linking Child Welfare and Children’s Mental Health Systems: A Case Study of the Gateway CALL Demonstration
The mental health needs of children and youth involved in the child welfare system remain largely unmet. Service cascades are an emerging approach to...
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Innovation in Sexuality and Relationship Education in Child Welfare: Shifting Toward a Focus on Ongoing Conversations, Connection, and Consent
Youth in foster care experience disproportionate rates of abusive relationships, teen pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Extant...
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Betrayal Trauma, Parental Substance Use Disorder, and Reunification Outcomes Among Child Welfare-Involved Families
PurposeChildhood high betrayal trauma (HBT; a high degree of closeness and dependency between a victim and perpetrator) and parental substance use...
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‘It’s not like real therapy’: young people receiving child welfare services’ experiences of video consultations in mental healthcare in Norway: a mixed methods approach
BackgroundVideo consultations has been suggested to lower the threshold for child and adolescent mental healthcare treatment. This study explores how...
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Leveraging Leadership in Child Welfare Systems: Large-scale Trauma- and Resilience-informed Training Initiative
Strengthening the infrastructure of public health systems around trauma-informed principles is crucial to addressing the needs of traumatized...
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The Role of Formal Policy to Promote Informed Consent of Psychotropic Medications for Youth in Child Welfare Custody: A National Examination
Active participation of youth and surrogate decision-makers in providing informed consent and assent for mental health treatment is critical....
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Drug Use and Human Milk: Legal and Child Welfare Considerations
IntroductionPreventing new parents who use drugs from bonding with and bodyfeeding their babies undermines public health. Because U.S. culture treats...
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Leveraging Technology to Increase Behavioral Health Services Access for Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare Systems: a Cross-systems Collaboration Model
Behavioral health services access for justice- and child welfare-involved youth is limited despite significant need. Structural interventions to...
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Intersectoral collaboration at a decentralized level: information flows in child welfare and healthcare networks
BackgroundAs needs of families with social and behavioral health problems often exceed the expertise and possibilities of a single professional,...