Impact of intensive family preservation services on disproportionality of out-of-home placement of children of color in one state's child welfare system

Child Welfare

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 87-105

  Kirk, Raymond S ^a,b   Griffith, Diana P ^a  

^a Independent Living Resources Inc   (United States)

^b Independent Living Resources Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY RELATION; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; INFANT; MINORITY GROUP; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FAMILY RELATIONS; FOSTER HOME CARE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MINORITY GROUPS; NORTH CAROLINA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77950728133     PISSN: 00094021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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