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February, 8, 2008
Group homes appear to double delinquency risk for foster kids,
study says
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more
Winter 2008
The Guardianship Solution: An alternative to adoption and foster
care gains Senators' support [page 11]
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more
October 20, 2007
DCFS parents get a hand: Keeping youths in solid families is
latest concern
Now...the state [Illinois] is taking the novel step of caring
for kids who have left the system. Illinois is at the leading
edge of an enormous change in child welfare that is sweeping the
nation, Testa said.
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August 21, 2007
Joe Ryan, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University
of Illinois and Faculty Fellow at the Children and Family
Research Center, discusses juvenile justice with David Inge,
host of WILL radio show, Focus 580.
Click here to listen.
March 5, 2007
According to DCFS data, the
percentage of foster children assigned the goal of reunifying
with their birth families has increased 141 percent between 1998
and 2006, from 13 percent to 31 percent, said Mark Testa,
director of the Children and Family Research Center at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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more
February 15, 2007
U of I professor of social work and director of the Children and
Family Research Center, Mark Testa, served as an advisor for the
highly acclaimed PBS special "10 Sisters: A True Story"
[p.15]
....read more
What would today's experts think about the 10 sisters case?
Watch the web video special feature:
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/tv/documentaries/tensisters/experts.htm
February 14, 2007
According to DCFS data, in 1997, 7.7
percent of primary caregivers were male. This year, 17.6 percent
are male. Last year, 4 percent were single men and 5.2 percent
were male relatives, said Mark Testa of the Children and Family
Research Center at the University
of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
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December 7, 2006
New national initiative says key to improving U.S. foster care
system is data analysis
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November 26, 2006
DCFS walks fine line on child welfare:
Advocates see risks in the push to keep some families intact
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April 11. 2006
Children with teen parents - especially poor, unwed parents -
face an even higher risk of being abused because of the burdens
on those single parents, according to Mark Testa, director of
the University of Illinois' Children and Family Research Center.
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April 2006
Youth in the Los Angeles County Juvenile Justice System:
Current Conditions and Possible Directions for Change
Joe Ryan, Center Faculty Fellow, is currently examining the
complex issues of youth known to both the child welfare and
juvenile justice systems in Los Angeles County [for details see
page 24].
....read more
March 10, 2006
Child-welfare study shows recovery coaches can help reunite
families
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more
March 2, 2006
Once a child has bonded with those foster
parents, to have a disruption in his life doesn't make sense, said Mark Testa, a professor of social work at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "You want to minimize the number
of disruptions to a child."
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more
September 29, 2005
Memoirs give voice to injured children
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April 22, 2005
Illinois has been transformed into "sort of the gold
standard" for child welfare,...
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May 6, 2004
Mark Testa, director of the Children and Family Research Center,
was invited to present a poster at the Institute for the
Advancement of Social Work Research’s 10th anniversary poster
session and reception on Capitol Hill in March [Scroll down to
social work in the document, next to last item].
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more
April 19, 2004
DCFS students 14 and older are absent an average of 6.4 days per
quarter - or five weeks per school year - according to the
Children and Family Research Center at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, which studied a random sample of
132 DCFS youths enrolled in school.
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