Child Policy Publications: Foster Care and Adoption
2012
Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analysis of Early Childhood Interventions — 2012
The objective of this paper is to delineate a set of standards for conducting benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of early childhood programs.
2011
The Experience of Outdoor Education at Operation Purple® Camp: Findings from a Sample of Youth Participants — 2011
Examine the benefits of outdoor education activities in Operation Purple® camps, which are free camps for youth from military families.
A History of the Academic Pediatric Association's Public Policy and Advocacy Initiatives — 2011
This article reviews the public policy and advocacy priorities of the Academic Pediatric Association over the last 50 years.
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes — 2012
Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.
Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches — 2011
RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.
Views from the Homefront: The Experiences of Youth and Spouses from Military Families — 2011
Examines the behavioral and emotional well-being of a sample of military families over a year as they cope with the stress of war and deployment, using surveys and in-depth interviews with youth and their nondeployed caregivers.
Views from the Homefront: How Military Youth and Spouses Are Coping with Deployment — 2011
Reports the results of a longitudinal study of youth from military families and their caregivers concerning their emotional well-being and how well they are coping with servicemembers' extended deployments.
2010
Children on the Homefront: The Experience of Children from Military Families — 2010
Although studies have begun to explore the impact of the current wars on child well-being, none have examined how children are doing across social, emotional, and academic domains.
The Impact of Parental Deployment on Child Social and Emotional Functioning: Perspectives of School Staff — 2010
Studies the effect of parental deployment on the well-being of children, and whether and how parental deployments affect the behavioral, social, and emotional outcomes of youth in the school setting.
The Impact of Parental Deployment on Child Social and Emotional Functioning: Perspectives of School Staff — 2010
Studies the effect of parental deployment on the well-being of children, and whether and how parental deployments affect the behavioral, social, and emotional outcomes of youth in the school setting.
Long-term Economic Costs of Psychological Problems During Childhood — 2010
Childhood psychological conditions have large effects on children's ability to work and earn as adults-a lifetime cost in lost family income of approximately $300,000, and total lifetime economic cost for all those affected of 2.1 trillion dollars.
Perceived Effects of Paid Family Leave Among Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs: California's Experience — 2010
California's Paid Family Leave Insurance program, the first of its kind, has not increased the percentage of parents who took leave to care for a sick child. Fewer than 15 percent of parents who were qualified for the program knew about it.
School Personnel Perspectives on Their School's Implementation of a School-Based Suicide Prevention Program — 2010
This study of a district-wide suicide prevention program found that schools whose implementation focused on at-risk students had better results.
Soda Taxes, Soft Drink Consumption, and Children's Body Mass Index — 2010
Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages have been proposed to combat obesity.
Toolkit for Adapting Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) or Supporting Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET) for Implementation with Youth in Foster Care — 2010
Assists school-based mental health professionals, school personnel, and child welfare social workers in adapting two school-based interventions for use with youth in foster care who have symptoms of distress following exposure to trauma.
2009
Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention: Field Reports from the Field and Ideas for the Future — 2009
Seeks to assess the current state of the child abuse and neglect prevention field as well as identify potential future directions for the field in terms of emerging priorities and prevention strategies.
The Costs of Methamphetamine Use: A National Estimate — 2009
The economic cost of methamphetamine use reached more than an estimated $23 billion in 2005, mostly from the intangible burden that addiction places on dependent users and their premature mortality and from crime and criminal justice costs.
The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005 — 2009
The first national estimate of the economic cost of methamphetamine considers burdens of addiction, early death, drug treatment, lost productivity, crime and criminal justice, health care, production and environmental hazards, and child endangerment.
Economic Trajectories in Non-Traditional Families with Children — 2009
Using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, examines associations between family structure and economic trajectories during the first five years after a child's birth, paying special attention to non-traditional families.
The Effects of Work-Conditioned Transfers on Marriage and Child Well-Being: A Review — 2009
Reviews studies that examine how transfer payments affect marriage or child well being.
Influences of Physical and Social Neighborhood Environments on Children's Physical Activity and Obesity — 2009
The authors investigated the association between physical and social neighborhood environments and fifth-grade students' physical activity and obesity.
Managed Care Quality and Disenrollment in New York SCHIP — 2009
Examines whether higher-quality measures in managed care plans are associated with lower disenrollment from the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in New York State.
Meeting Family and Military Needs Through Military Child Care — 2009
This article summarizes results from a child care survey of military families conducted by the RAND Corporation in 2004 and draws policy implications for the military child care system.
Perceived Effects of Leave from Work and the Role of Paid Leave Among Parents of Children with Special Health Care Needs — 2009
The authors examined the perceived effects of leave from work among employed parents of children with special health care needs.
Prevalence, Characteristics, and Associated Health and Health Care of Family Homelessness Among Fifth-Grade Students — 2009
The authors describe the lifetime prevalence and associated health-related concerns of family homelessness among fifth-grade students.
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