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Youth Who Run Away From Out-Of-Home Care In Wisconsin, 2010-2020, Sydney Shafer
Youth Who Run Away From Out-Of-Home Care In Wisconsin, 2010-2020, Sydney Shafer
Theses and Dissertations--Public Health (M.P.H. & Dr.P.H.)
A sample of 27,599 youth 5-17 years old who entered the child welfare system in Wisconsin between 2010 and 2020 were analyzed to examine differences in those who run away from out-of-home care and those who do not. Risk factors analyzed included age at entry into the system and measures of sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, witness to family violence, placement restrictiveness, youth home county socioeconomic disadvantage and urbanicity, and distance from placement to home. Analyses were presented in gender- and race- specific strata. In this sample, 2434 (8.8%) ran away from their out-of-home care placement at least …