I: Examining Child Abuse and Child Welfare Caseloads and Careers; 1: Understanding Pathways to Permanency; 2: Growth in Child Abuse Reports and Child Welfare Services Caseloads; 3: From Child Abuse Report to Child Welfare Services; II: Analyzing Foster Care Pathways; 4: Rethinking and Researching Length of Stay in Foster Care; 5: Reunification from Kinship and Nonkinship Foster Care; 6: Factors Associated with Entrance to Group Care; 7: Time to Adoption; III: Child and Placement Characteristics; 8: Specialized Foster Care: A Home for Children With Special Needs; 9: Kinship Care: Rights and Responsibilities, Services and Standards; 10: Group Care for Children; 11: Similarities and Differences in the Characteristics of Children in Out-of-Home Care; IV: Implications; 12: Trends and Recommendations for the Next Decade
Richard P. Barth, Mark E. Courtney, Jill Duerr Berrick, Vicky N. Albert