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  A Child Welfare Research Agenda for the State of Illinois, 1999 (Executive Summary)
Children and Family Research Center
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  A Child Welfare Research Agenda for the State of Illinois, 1999 (Full report)
Children and Family Research Center
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  A child's-eye view of parent methamphetamine abuse: Implecations for helping foster families to succeed
Wendy Haight, Teresa Ostler, James Black, Kathryn Sheridan, & Linda Kingery
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  An Evaluation of Mentoring Relationships Among Foster Youth
Jean Rhodes, Wendy L. Haight, & E.C. Briggs
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  An Examination of Illinois’ Standards for the Treatment of Sexually Aggressive Youth: The Relationship Between Agency Organizational Structure and Level of Compliance
Therese Wrona
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  Best Practice Bibliographies Project
Catherine Cutter
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  Can AFCARS Be Rescued? Fixing the Statistical Yardstick That Measures State Child Welfare Performance
Mark Testa, Eun Koh and John Poertner
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  CARA: Child Abuse Risk Assessment
Beena Choksi, Hyun Ah Kang and John Poertner
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  Caregiver Burden in Kinship Foster Care: Impact of Social Support on Caregiver Emotional Distress
Rocco A. Cimmarusti
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  Child Maltreatment and Juvenile Delinquency: Investigating the Role of Placement and Placement Instability
Joseph Ryan and Mark Testa
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  Child Maltreatment in Foster Care: A Study of Retrospective Reporting
Gail Tittle, John Poertner, & Philip Garnier
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  Child Maltreatment in Out-of-Home Care: What Do We Know Now?
Gail Tittle, John Poertner, and Philip Garnier
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1001-O
  Child safety at reunification: A case-control study of maltreatment recurrence following return home from substitute care
Tamara L. Fuller
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  Child Safety, Permanency, and Well-Being Outcomes
John Poertner
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  Child Welfare Outcomes Revisited
John Poertner, Tom McDonald, and Cyndi Murray
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  Children of Color in Foster Care and the Multiethnic Placement Act: The Experiences of Families Involved in Transracial and Same Race Adoptions in an Illinois Sample
Maria Vidal de Haymes, Jerome Blakemore, and Shirley Simon
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  Conditions of Children in or at Risk of Foster Care in Illinois: An Assessment of Their Safety, Stability, Continuity, Permanence and Well-Being, 2005
Mark Testa, Tamara Fuller, and Nancy Rolock
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  Conditions of Children in or at Risk of Foster Care in Illinois: An Assessment of Their Safety, Stability, Continuity, Permanence and Well-Being, 2006
Testa & Rolock, Editors
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  Conditions of Children in or at Risk of Foster Care in Illinois: An Assessment of Their Safety, Stability, Continuity, Permanence and Well-Being, 2007
Testa & Rolock, Editors
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  Conducting Parent-Child Visits: A Practice Guide
Jeanne Sokolec, Stephen Budde, John Poertner, and Dennette Derezotes
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0401-I
  Confidence and Uncertainty in Casework Decisions: The Supervisor's Role
Shradha Tibrewal and John Poertner
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0300-I
  Crisis nursery outcomes for caregivers served at multiple sites in Illinois
Susan Cole and Pedro Hernandez
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  Cunningham Children's Home Supported Education and Employment for Older Youth in Care
Barry Ackerson, Dayna Finet, Misa Kayama, & Ozge Sensoy
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  DASA/DCFS Initiative: Evaluation of Integrated Services for Substance Abusing Clients of the Illinois Public Child Welfare System
Jeanne Marsh, Tom D'Aunno, and Brenda Smith
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  Definitional Field Guide for AFCARS Elements Used in CFSR Permanency Measures
Kristen Tromble
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  Disproportionality in Illinois Child Welfare
Nancy Rolock
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  Disproportionality in Illinois Child Welfare
Nancy Rolock
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  Does the Loss of Income Increase the Risk of Child Welfare Involvement With the Child Welfare System?
Kristen L. Shook
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  Dual Involvement of Illinois Families in TANF and the Child Welfare System: Parents' Perceptions and Experiences
Morgan B. Ward Doran and Dorothy E. Roberts
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  Elements of Best Practice in Family Centered Services
Susan J. Wells and Tamara L. Fuller
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  Enhancing Parent-Child Interaction During Foster Care Visits: Experimental Assessment of an Intervention
Wendy Haight, Sarah Mangelsdorf, James Black, Margaret Szewczyk, Sarah Schoppe, Grace Giorgio, Karen Madrigal and Lakshmi Tata
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  Entry Into Residential Care by Clinica and Non-Clinical Characteristics Among Youth in State Custody
Jun Min Park
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  Evaluating the Quality of Kinship Foster Care: Evaluation Package (Instruments)
Children and Family Research Center
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  Evaluating the Quality of Kinship Foster Care: Evaluation Package (Manual)
Jean Agathen, John O'Donnell, and Susan Wells
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0699-I-1
  Evaluating the Quality of Kinship Foster Care: Final Report
Susan Wells and Jean Agathen
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0499-I
  Evaluating the Quality of Kinship Foster Care: Literature Review
Children and Family Research Center
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  Evaluation of Family Centered Services in Illinois
Douglas Thomson and Susan Wells
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0399-0
  Evidence-Based Practice in Child Welfare: Challenges and Opportunities
Emmanuelle Gira, Michelle Kessler and John Poertner
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  Factors That Predict the Decision to Place a Child: Administrative Data
Gardenia Harris and John Poertner
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  Factors That Predict the Decision to Place a Child: Case Record Data
Gail Tittle, Gardenia Harris, and John Poertner
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0400-I
  Future Directions in Outcome Measurement: Thoughts on the Matter
John Poertner
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  How Parental Drug Use and Drug Treatment Compliance Relate to Family Reunification
Brenda D. Smith
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  How Safe Are Out-of-Home Placements
John Poertner, Marian Bussey, & John Fluke (1999)
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  Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA) Waiver Demonstration: Final Evaluation Report
Joseph P. Ryan
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0106-O
  Illinois Alcohol, and Other Drug Waiver Demonstration: Semi-Annual Progress Report, June - December 2007
Children and Family Research Center and Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
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  Illinois AODA IV=E Waiver Demonstration
Test, M., Ryan, J., Louderman, D., Sullivan., J., Gillespie, S., Gianforte, R., Preuter, J., & Quasius, D.
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0203-O
  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol (CERAP): Implementation Evaluation FY2001
Tamara L. Fuller and John Poertner
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  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol (CERAP): Implementation Evaluation FY1999
Tamara L. Fuller and Susan Wells
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1599-O
  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol (CERAP): Technical Report Concerning the Implementation and Validation of the Protocol, August, 1998
Tamara Fuller and Susan Wells, Editors
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0798-I
  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol Evaluation (CERAP): Impact on Short-Term Recurrence Rates – Year Five
Martin Nieto and Philip C. Garnier
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  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol Evaluation (CERAP): Impact on Short-Term Recurrence Rates - Year Four
Philip Garnier and Martin Nieto
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  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol Evaluation (CERAP): Impact on Short-Term Recurrence Rates - Year Three
John D. Fluke, Myles Edwards, and Marian Bussey
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  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol Evaluation: Impact on Short-Term Recurrence Rates - Year Six
Philip Garnier and Martin Nieto
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0502-I
  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol: A Report to the General Assembly
Tamara Fuller and Martin Nieto
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  Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol: FY08 Annual Evaluation
Tamara L. Fuller & Martin Nieto
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  Illinois Child Well-Being Study: Year Two Final Report
Mary Ann Hartnett, Christina Bruhn, Jesse Helton, Tamara Fuller, & Lynn Steiner
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  Illinois Foster Caregivers' Study
Susan A. Cole
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0305-O
  Illinois Subsidized Guardianship Waiver Demonstration: Final Evaluation Report
Testa, M.F., Cohen, L., & Smith, G. with Westat, Inc.
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0103-O
  Illinois's Child Welfare Research Agenda: An Approach to Building Consensus for Practice-Based Research
Michelle Johnson, Susan Wells, Mark Testa, and Jess McDonald
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  Impact of TANF on State Kinship Foster Care Programs
Steven G. Anderson and Kelly Righton
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0101-C
  Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare and Child Protective Services: Literature Review, 2000
Morgan B. Ward Doran and Dorothy Roberts
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0301-C
  Individual and Contextual Coontributors to Child Maltreatment Reporting: Analysis of Data From the Illinois Families Study
Alan M. Puckett
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0505-O
  Kin Caregivers of HIV Affected Children: Identifying Services That Support Permanency
Sally Mason and Nathan Linsk
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  Kinship Care and Permanency
Mark Testa
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  Kinship Care and Social Policy
Mark Testa
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  Kinship Caregiver Burden: A Practice Guide
Dennette Derezotes, Jeanne Sokolec, and Dawn Dannenbring-Carlson
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1600-I
  Levels of Care
Sonya Leathers, Mark Testa, and Lydia Falconnier
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0999-I
  Making Visits Better: Supporting Parent-Child Relationships Through Foster Care Visitation
Wendy Haight, James Black, Cindy Workman, and Lakshmi Tata
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  Making Visits Better: The Perspectives of Parents, Foster Parents, and Child Welfare Workers
Wendy Haight, James Black, Sarah Mangelsdorf, Grace Giorgio, Lakshmi Tata, Sarah Schoppe, and Margaret Szewczyk
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  Measurement of Client Satisfaction: The State-of-the Art,1997
Gardenia Harris and John Poertner
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0597-I
  Mental Health Service Use for Children in Foster Care in Illinois
Theresa Early and Douglas Mooney
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  National Study of Outcome Measurement in Public Child Welfare Services
Susan Wells and Michelle Johnson
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  Outcome Evaluation: CERAP Safety Assessment Technical Report, 1997
John Fluke, Myles Edwards, Will Johnson
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0297-O
  Parental Substance Use and Child Welfare Involvement: Bibliography, 1997
Katherine Klimisch and Brenda Smith
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0997-C
  Parental Visiting and Family Reunification: Could Inclusive Practice Make a Difference?
Sonya Leathers
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  Parents' Compliance With Child Welfare Service Plan Requirements: A Literature Review and Critique
Brenda Smith
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  Parents' Expectations of Caseworkers: A Practice Guide
John Poertner, Dennette M. Derezotes, Cassandra Woolfolk, Ellyce Roitman, and Jo Anne Smith
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0900-I
  Parents With Children in Care: Assessment of Service Satisfaction
John Poertner, Gardenia Harris, and Sean Joe
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0497-I
  Patterns of Health Care Utilization of Foster Children in Illinois
Madeleine Shalowitz and Deborah Dobrez
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0202-O
  Placement Stability and Number of Children in the Home
Mark Testa, Martin Nieto, & Tamara Fuller
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  Placement Stability Study
Maryann Hartnett, Lydia Falconnier, Sonya Leathers, and Mark Testa
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0799-I
  Predicting Placement in Foster Care: A Comparison of Logistic Regression and Neural Network Analysis
Tom McDonald, John Poertner, and Gardenia Harris
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  Predicting Reunification and Adoption Among Foster Youth: The Role of Behavior Problems and Attachments to Caregivers
Sonya Leathers
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  Predictors of Maltreatment Recurrence at Two Milestones in the Life of a Case
Tamara Fuller, Susan Wells, and Ed Cotton
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  Preparing Foster Adolescents for Independent Living: A Comparison of Disabled and Non-Disabled Youth
Ed Mech
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  Qualitative Studies: Foster Youth Seen and Heard (FYSH Project)
Dayna Finet
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  Reducing Recurrence in Child Protective Services: Impact of a Targeted Safety Protocol
John Fluke, Myles Edwards, Marian Bussey, Susan Wells, and Will Johnson
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  Removing barriers to service delivery: An outcome evaluation of a 'remodelled' foster care programme
Unrau, Y., Wells, M., & Hartnett, M.
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  Report on Child Safety and Permanency in Illinois for Fiscal Year 1997 (Report on Outcomes for Children Who Are the Responsibility of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, 1998 [Fiscal Year 1997])
Children and Family Research Center
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  Report on Child Safety and Permanency in Illinois for Fiscal Year 1998 (Report on Outcomes for Children Who Are the Responsibility of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services, 1999 [Fiscal Year 1998])
Children and Family Research Center
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  Report on Child Safety and Permanency in Illinois for Fiscal Year 1999
Children and Family Research Center
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1100-O
  Report on Child Safety and Permanency in Illinois for Fiscal Year 2000
Children and Family Research Center
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0201-O
  Report on Child Safety and Permanency in Illinois for Fiscal Year 2001
Children and Family Research Center
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0102-O
  Reporting Frequencies of Child Abuse Events
Douglas Simpson, Peter Imrey, Olga Geling, and Susan Butkus
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0698-O
  Reunification of Children in Substitute Care in Illinois: 1987-1996
Robert Goerge and Bong Joo Lee
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  Selecting Outcome Measures for Child Welfare Settings: Lessons for Use in Performance Management
Susan Wells and Michelle Johnson
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  Subsidized Guardianship: Testing an Idea Whose Time Has Finally Come
Mark Testa
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  Subsidized Guardianship: Testing the Effectiveness of an Idea Whose Time Has Come
Mark Testa
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  Supporting Adoptions and Guardianship in Illinois: An Analysis of Subsidies, Services, and Spending
Tamara Fuller, Christina Bruhn, Melinda Lis, Nancy Rolock, and Leslie Cohen
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  Supporting Battered Women and Their Children: Perspectives of Battered Mothers and Child Welfare Professionals
Woochan S. Shim and Wendy Haight
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  Supporting Families as They Adopt Children With Special Needs
Laurie Kramer and Doris Houston
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  Supporting Parent-Child Attachment Relationships Through Foster Care Visits
James E. Black, Jill Doner Kagle, and Wendy L. Haight
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  The "Child Health and Illness Profile": A Tool for Assessing Well-Being in Group Homes and Institutions
Sandra Altshuler and John Poertner
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  The Assessment of the Well-Being of Adolescents in Three Substitute Care Types
Sandra Altshuler and John Poertner
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  The Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol (CERAP): Short-Term Recurrence Among Investigation Cases With Alcohol and Other Drug Involvement
Tamara L. Fuller and Susan Wells
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  The Effects of Economic Resources on Reunification of Illinois Children in Substitute Care
Mary Eamon
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  The Gift of Kinship Foster Care
Mark Testa
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  The Illinois Child Well-Being Study: Year One Final Report
Mary Ann Hartnett and Christina Bruhn
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0205-O
  The Need for Uniformity in National Statistics and Improvements in Outcome Indicators for Child and Family Services Reviews: Lessons Learned From Child Welfare Reform in Illinois
Honorable Patricia Martin Bishop, Lawrence Grazian, Jess McDonald, Mark Testa, Sophia Gatowski
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  The Parents With Children in Foster Care Satisfaction Scale
John Poertner, Gardenia Harris, and Sean Joe
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  The Risk of Subsequent Maltreatment Allegations in Families With Substance-Exposed Infants
Brenda Smith and Mark Testa
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  The Treatment of Children With Sexually Problematic and Aggressive Behavior I: A Literature Review and Survey of Leading Experts, 2000
Connie Horton
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0800-C
  The Well-Being of Older Youth in Out-of-Home Care Who Are Headed to Independence
Hyucksun Sunny Shin and John Poertner
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0302-O
  Training Rural Child Welfare Workers for Service to Families With Maternal Mental Illness
Martha Raske
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  Using Administrative Data to Assess Child Safety in Out-of-Home Care
Philip Garnier and John Poertner
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  When Children Cannot Return Home: Adoption and Guardianship
Mark F. Testa
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  Youth Narrative Portfolio: Foster Youth Seen and Heard (Project FYSH)
Dayna Finet and the youth participants of Project FYSH
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