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Resources
- Working Together for Children and Families Where TANF and Child Welfare Meet
This article reviews the significance of family poverty with child maltreatment, and offers policy recommendations to promote child wellbeing within the context of welfare reform. It outlines the experience of one State with regards to interagency collaboration around TANF and child welfare.
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Welfare Reform's Effect on Child Welfare Caseloads
The paper from the Urban Institute examines the links between the cash assistance and child welfare systems. Interviews with more than 350 child welfare administrators, researchers, supervisors, legislative representatives, and advocates in 13 states found no evidence to suggest that welfare reform had significantly increased the number of families referred to child welfare agencies. The authors conclude that concern for dual-system families may be well-founded as many respondents noted the challenges faced by families involved in both systems. The authors review the few studies that address the effects of welfare reform on child welfare concluding that research on this topic is limited. (February 2001)
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Homeless Youth
This fact sheet from the National Coalition for the Homeless discusses the dimensions, causes, and consequences of homelessness among youth. An overview of program and policy issues and a list of resources for further study are also provided. (June 2006)
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Breaking the Foster Care - Homelessness Connection
A fact sheet from Safety Network: The Newsletter of the National Coalition for the Homeless (1998).
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Web of Failure: The Relationship Between Foster Care & Homelessness
This 1995 publication is the result of a national research project in which the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NEAH) examined the over-representation in the homeless population of people with a foster care history. The two-publication set includes the report and a 45-page appendix which is comprised of an annotated bibliography, case studies and data. Also available is an analysis done of the Washington, D.C. data, alone.
- Evaluating Treatment for Homeless Adolescents
This Data Trends brief from the Research & Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health at Portland State University compares treatment outcomes for a group of runaway youth randomly assigned to one of two treatment options, either ecologically based family therapy (EBFT) or services as usual (SAU) provided by a shelter for homeless youth. The results indicated that youth benefited significantly from both types of treatment. There was some evidence that substance use reduction was greater for youth receiving EBFT in cases with a history of physical or sexual abuse.
- Youth Homelessness and the Lack of Permanent Relational Planning for Teens in Foster Care: Preventing Homelessness Through Relationship
This is a discussion concerning youth homelessness and the lack of relational planning (i.e. a discharge from foster care to another human being) for older foster children. It discusses working class youth in families versus foster care youth discharges, common myths about where the homeless come from, independent living versus interdependent living, and what can be done.
NRCFCPPP Information Packet
Bibliography
Website
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Institute for Children and Poverty
The Institute for Children and Poverty is an independent research and policy think tank based in New York City. ICP evaluates existing strategies and offers innovative approaches to combat the effects of homelessness on the lives of children and their parents.
Last updated 12/07/07
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