The purpose of this study was to identify a set of indicators available from existing administrative databases that could be used to identify adolescents at elevated risk for being a victim of violent crime in order to direct early intervention resources to the young people who would most benefit from services.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a law school clinic that provides free legal representation to parents who have had their children removed from their care. Specifically, we examined the quality of (1) legal representation provided by a student- and faculty-run law clinic to parents involved in the foster care system, and (2) education received by student attorneys.
The primary purpose of this study was to examine family contexts, sociodemographic factors, and school disciplinary incidents associated with the violent victimization of adolescents in Minneapolis.
The purpose of this longitudinal investigation was to explore the association of children’s exposure to parental intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM), as well as combined exposure (IPV-CM), to children’s academic achievement and school attendance over time.
This study reexamines the school attendance and child welfare involvement of a group of students for whom a report of educational neglect was received by child welfare during the 2000-2001 school year in Minnesota. The majority of these students experienced a marked improvement in their school attendance in the year following their involvement with child welfare in 2002.