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Housing Choices Among Homeless Families In Child Welfare: A Mixed Methods Study, Anne Rufa
Housing Choices Among Homeless Families In Child Welfare: A Mixed Methods Study, Anne Rufa
College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations
A growing body of research has identified a link between housing instability and involvement with child welfare services for families. For some, inadequate housing situations lead to parent-child separations or delayed reunification. Housing assistance may be one option for these families to avoid these outcomes; however, little research examines existing housing services for inadequately housed families in contact with the child welfare system. Public housing assistance represents the primary source to connect low-income families with affordable housing; however, a number of barriers challenge navigation of this system, including long waitlists, stigmatization of voucher use, and stringent eligibility requirements for all …
Examining The Pathway From Maternal Criminal Involvement To Adolescent Delinquency, Dina Chavira
Examining The Pathway From Maternal Criminal Involvement To Adolescent Delinquency, Dina Chavira
College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations
As incarceration rates across the United States have continued to rise, there has been growing concern with the unintended consequences that have resulted. This has prompted researchers across multiple disciplines to study the effects of incarceration at the individual, family, community, and societal levels. An important but overlooked factor pertains to extensive multiple social service agency involvement and missed opportunities for intervention. Families involved with the criminal justice system (CJS) are often at risk of involvement with other human service agencies, one agency being the child welfare system (CWS). Little is known about families who fall within these two systems, …