Expanding the conceptualization of re-entry: The inter-play between child welfare and juvenile services |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Binghamton University, United States;2. University of Maryland, Baltimore, United States;1. Augsburg College, 2211 Riverside Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA;2. DBS (PG) College, Karanpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand 248001, India;1. Arts in Social Work Masters Specialization, Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Dept. of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;2. Charlotte B. and Jack J. Spitzer Dept. of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.B. 653, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel;1. Faculty of Education, Monash University, 29 Ancora Imparo Way, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia;2. Michigan State University School of Social Work, East Lansing, MI, USA;3. Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, PO Box 9104, 6500, HE, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;4. Research and Innovation Department of Rehabilitation, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, The Netherlands;1. School of Social Work, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, United States;2. School of Social Work, University of Michigan, United States;3. Children and Family Research Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States |
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| Abstract: | Re-entry in child welfare is traditionally viewed as a child exiting to permanency and then reentering the child welfare system. Using this approach is effective for understanding child welfare practice from a single-system lens, but gives an incomplete picture of how children may move between related child serving systems. The present study expands the definition of re-entry by examining re-entry for 2259 children who either return to the child welfare system or move into the juvenile justice system after reunification from foster care. When measuring a broader concept of re-entry (into either system) the rate of re-entry went from 18% to 25% - a 33% increase. Regression analyses further suggested that many of the risk and protective factors associated with standard child welfare reentry were also predictive of multisystem re-entry such as having previous child welfare experience (OR = 1.79, p < 0.000), and child behavior as a factor at removal (OR = 1.75, p < 0.000). Findings of this study support the need to continue increasing the conceptualization of re-entry to be more inclusive of related systems as well as continuing to focus research efforts on understanding effective practices within child serving systems so that re-entry into either system is mitigated. |
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