POC researchers often work across many projects. Our publications provide you a snapshot of some of their projects. While not exhaustive, these briefs and research papers will provide you with great insights and important research findings.

If you cannot find information on a specific research project that POC was involved with, contact us and we can try to direct you to the information you need.

Reunification

Family Reunification in Washington State: Which Children Go Home and How Long Does it Take?

This study provides evidence that children of parents who reported that they were "engaged" (e.g., trusted the child welfare system and/or their worker), had stable housing, and had completed a high school education reunified significantly faster.
Report Feb 13, 2013
Kinship Care

Collaborating with Kinship Caregivers

In the early 1990s, kinship care emerged as a child welfare model. This brief presents a model based on a "collaborative mode of practice" designed to work for the maximum benefit of children in kinship care.
Report Feb 13, 2013
System Reform

Evaluation of Washington's Solution-Based Casework Practice Model

This report analyzed the results from a baseline survey of Children’s Administration supervisors. A summary of the findings highlights the supervisors’ perceptions of obstacles to helping families, the organizational climate, and job satisfaction.
Report Jan 24, 2013
Foster Care

Foster Parent Support Pilot Study: Final Report

The 2010 Foster Parent Support Pilot (FPSP) study was designed as the first step in a process to determine whether the Mockingbird Family Model (MFM) could be an efficacious foster care model.
Report Jan 18, 2013
Out-of-Home Care

Timing of Exits to Legal Permanency from Out-of-Home Care

Following 36,797 children who first entered out-of-home care in Washington State between 2001 and 2007, this article identifies significant variation in the rates at which children experience legal permanency among jurisdictions within the state.
Publication Dec 31, 2012
Prevention & Intervention

Recruitment & Retention of Latino Immigrant Families in Prevention Research

This article describes lessons learned from two family-focused longitudinal prevention research studies of Latino immigrants in Oregon —the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study (ALAS) and the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project-II (LYFE-II).
Publication Dec 31, 2012
Parenting

Promoting Relationship Building and Connection

This article discusses adaptations to make Staying Connected, an evidence-based parenting program designed to support adolescent children in avoiding high-risk behaviors, more relevant for foster families.
Publication Dec 31, 2012
At-Risk Youth

Joint Trajectories of Disruptive Behavior Problems & Depression During Adolescence & Adjustment Problems in Emerging Adulthood

This article examines the joint, longitudinal trajectories of symptoms of disruptive behavior problems and of depression in a community sample drawn from neighborhoods with high rates of delinquency.
Publication Dec 31, 2012
System Reform

Evaluation of the Impact of Enhanced Parental Legal Representation on the Timing of Permanency

This article evaluates the impact of an enhanced parental legal representation program on the timing of permanency outcomes for 12,104 children who entered court-supervised out-of-home care in Washington State for the first time between 2004 and 2007.
Publication Dec 31, 2012
Mental Health

Diurnal Cortisol Rhythms Among Latino Immigrants in Oregon, USA

This study measures cortisol levels in Latino immigrant farmworkers in Oregon and compares measures of stress against the general population. Preliminary results suggest chronic stress plays a role in health risk among the Latino immigrant population.
Publication Dec 31, 2012

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