By Allie Long & Barbara Ball, Ph.D., LPC-AT When we talk about older youth in foster care, and especially about youth who are aging out of the foster care system,… Read more »
You are invited to participate in the TXPOP Capacity Building survey about child welfare services in Texas and share ways that we can improve permanency outcomes for youth and strengthen… Read more »
Welcome to our April 2020 News from the Field monthly feature! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the… Read more »
By Swetha Nulu, MPH, Assistant Director of Research Major Take-Aways To prevent child maltreatment, programs should focus on addressing risk factors empirically linked to child maltreatment: substance use, mental health… Read more »
By Beth Gerlach, Ph.D., LCSW, Associate Director One of our institute’s most important values is our emphasis on connecting research and practice. We strive to accomplish this in many ways,… Read more »
Relationships between adverse childhood experiences and protective factors among parents at-risk for child maltreatment (2020) S. Panisch, C. A. LaBrenz , J. Lawson, B.Gerlach , P. S. Tennant , S…. Read more »
The Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing was contracted by the Texas DFPS Prevention and Early Intervention Division (PEI) to conduct an evaluation of the Healthy Outcomes through Prevention… Read more »
Adkins, T., Reisze, S., Doerge, K., & Nulu, S. (2020). Adverse Childhood Experience histories in foster parents:Connections to foster children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties. Child Abuse & Neglect, 104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104475.
Welcome to our March 2020 News from the Field! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the latest news,… Read more »
March 30th, 2020 As we continue to learn more about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, we recognize the impact that this situation places on the ability for our independent students to… Read more »