Policy and Issue Briefs

This 2015 policy brief provides an update on the implementation of Family Assessment Response (FAR) in Washington State.

Efforts to reduce child maltreatment will have a better chance for long-term success if interventions address the full range of primary factors associated with child maltreatment.

This brief gives an overview of Family Assessment Response (or differential response) and how it might impact children and families.

This brief explores Social Impacts Bonds: what they are, how they are created, and what elements are necessary to implement them.

This brief reports that children with frequent family contact while in foster care experience a greater likelihood of reunification, shorter stays in out-of-home care, overall improved emotional well-being, and positive adjustment to placement.

This brief provides highlights from the 2008 Parent Survey, which shows that parents involved with Washington State's child welfare system are poor, unemployed, disproportionately of color, and living in unstable situations.

This brief examines the two-way link between poverty/homelessness/substandard housing and child welfare involvement.

This legislative brief provides highlights from the 2008 Parent Survey, with an emphasis on parents’ economic hardships, parents’ risk factors, and the differences between parents' and social workers' views of the parents' service needs.