References

CCCW Newsletters

CCCW Journal Publications

Resources on the Internet

CCCW Newsletters (in .pdf format)

The Relationship between the Child Welfare and Public Mental Health Systems

Health Assessments for Children Entering the CWS

Mental Health and Developmental Training Requirements in the CWS

Journal Publications

Barbara J. Burns, Susan D. Phillips, H. Ryan Wagner, Richard P. Barth, David J. Kolko, Yvonne Campbell, John Landsverk. (2004) Mental Health Need and Access to Mental Health Services by Youth Involved With Child Welfare: A National Survey. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43(8), 960-970.

Elizabeth M.Z. Farmer, Barbara J. Burns, Mimi Chapman, Susan D. Phillips, Adrian Angold & E. Jane Costello. (2001). Use of mental health services by youth in contact with social services. Social Service Review, 75(4), 605-624.

Jeffrey S. Harman, George E. Childs, & Kelly J. Kelleher (2000). Mental health care utilization and expenditures by children in foster care. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 154: 1114-1117.

Andrea Hazen, Cynthia Connelly, Kelly Kelleher. (2004). Intimate Partner Violence Among Female Caregivers of Children Reported for Child Maltreatment. Child Abuse & Neglect 28(3), 301-319.

Michael S. Hurlburt, Laurel K. Leslie, John Landsverk, Richard P. Barth, Barbara J. Burns, Robert D. Gibbons, Donald J. Slymen, Jinjin Zhang. (2004). Contextual Predictors of Mental Health Service Use Among a Cohort of Children Open to Child Welfare. Archives of General Psychiatry; 61: 1217-1224.

Michael Hurlburt, Laurel K. Leslie, Richard Barth, John Landsverk, David Kolko, Jennifer Rolls. National Variation in Efforts to Train Child Welfare Workers and Foster Caregivers on Children's Mental Health and Development. Accepted by the Journal of Social Service Research.

Sigrid James. (2004). Why Do Foster Care Placements Disrupt? An Investigation of Reasons for Placement Change in Foster Care. Social Service Review, 78 (4), 601-627.

Sigrid James, John Landsverk, and Don Slymen. (2004). Placement Movement in Out-Of-Home Care: Patterns and Predictors. Children and Youth Services Review, 26(2), 185-206.

Sigrid James, John Landsverk, Don J. Slymen, Laurel K. Leslie. (2004). Predictors of Outpatient Mental Health Service Use—The Role of Foster Care Placement Change. Mental Health Services Research, 6(3), 127-141.

John Landsverk, Ann F. Garland, & Laurel K. Leslie. (2002). Mental health services for children reported to child protective services. In John E. B. Myers, & John Briere (Eds.). The APSAC Handbook on Child Maltreatment, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA:Sage.

Laurel K. Leslie, Michael Hurlburt, John Landsverk, Jennifer Rolls, Patsy Wood, Kelly Kelleher. (2003). Comprehensive Assessments for Children Entering Foster Care: A National Perspective. Pediatrics, 112(1), 134-142.

Laurel K. Leslie; Michael S. Hurlburt, John Landsverk, Richard Barth, Donald J. Slymen.(2004) Outpatient Mental Health Services for Children in Foster Care: A National Sample. Child Abuse & Neglect, 28(6), 699-714.

Laurel K. Leslie, Kelly Kelleher, Barbara J. Burns, John Landsverk, & Jennifer A. Rolls. (2003). Foster Care and Medicaid Managed Care. Child Welfare, 82(3), 367-392.

Anne Libby, Heather Orton, Richard P. Barth, Mary B. Webb, Barbara Burns, Paul Spicer, Patsy Wood. (2006). Alcohol, drug, and mental health specialty treatment services and race/ethnicity: a national study of children and families involved with child welfare. Am J Public Health, 96(4):628-31.

Susan Phillips, Ryan Wagner, and Barbara J. Burns. (2004). Parental Arrest and Children Involved with Child Welfare Services Agencies. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry,74(2), 174-186.

Ramesh Raghavan, Bonnie T. Zima, Ronald M. Anderson, Arleen A. Leibowitz, Mark A. Schuster, John Landsverk. (2005). Psychotropic Medication Use in a National Probability Sample of Children in the Child Welfare System. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 15(1), 97-106.

Ramesh Raghavan, Arleen A. Leibowitz, Ronald M. Andersen, Bonnie T. Zima, Mark A. Schuster and John Landsverk (2006). Effects of Medicaid managed care policies on mental health service use among a national probability sample of children in the child welfare system. Children and Youth Services Review, 28(12), 1482-1496.

Aubyn C. Stahmer, Laurel K. Leslie, John Landsverk, Jinjin Zhang, Jennifer Rolls. (in press). Developmental Services for Young Children in Foster Care: Assessment and Service Delivery. Accepted by the Journal of Social Service Research.

Aubyn C. Stahmer, Laurel K. Leslie, Michael Hurlburt, Richard P. Barth, Mary Bruce Webb, John Landsverk, Jinjin Zhang. (2005). Developmental and Behavioral Needs as Predictors of Service Use for Young Children in Child Welfare. Pediatrics, 116(4): 891–900.

Resources on the Internet

NSCAW information on ACF website

Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare
Practice - White Paper on Post-Adoption Services

CWLA National Data Analysis System

Identifying Promising Approaches for Meeting Health Care Needs of Children in State Protective Custody (MCHB project)

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