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Housing education and home management training 0. Health education and risk prevention 0. Family support and healthy marriage education 0. Mentoring 0. Supervised independent living 0. Although all models tested in ranged from 0. Ninety nine percent of these youth were from New terior probabilities between the random halves of the male York state, which did not report any service receipt data but and female sample indicated successful model replication.
Among females with female youth indicated that there were three distinct classes data on at least one CFCIP service indicator, The bivariate data coverage ranged from In both samples, BIC respectively, by split-half sample. While there is a general favored a larger number of mutually exclusive classes. In these cases, items with the highest 5, 6, and 7-classes, over parameters were estimated at probabilities were used as primary descriptors of the pro- the expense of parsimony.
In summary, both gender groups revealed differences a candidate model for both male and female youth. As shown in Table 3, assessment M: 0. Similarly, there were very little differences in support and healthy marriage education M: 0.
Ethnicity ref: Caucasian African American 1. Missing 0. Foster care in reporting period ref: No Yes at some point 0. Male youth ages 18 assessment M: 0. Findings between male and State characteristics associated with service receipt female youth were comparable. Male and female youth from states compared to youth younger than 18 years old. Male youth that serve foster care youth beyond age 18 versus those who and female youth with a 9th—12th grade education were two did not had a 1. Hybrid 0.
While the combination of different highly utilized services was promising, it was unclear whether more services are better since the NYTD does not Discussion measure the appropriateness of services to meet youth needs. Youth ages 18 or above, or both male and female youth. The absence of descriptive analyses of service receipt Okpych Simul- and risk prevention.
This constellation of services seems to taneously, youth from states that serve youth ages 18 or be important baseline services for all youth at the devel- above were also more likely to be in the limited service opmental juncture of aging out of care, regardless of the receipt class. More nuanced differences emerged between male and Third, in contrast, services associated with the lowest female youth. Future studies may examine whether these Gateway By further demonstrating prior service receipt predicted future the same token, it is an important research question whether service receipt Courtney et al.
First, while states may transitional services, as well as offering an option for states be conducting routine independent living needs assessments to extend the use of CFCIP funding for youth up to age 23 and offering academic support to youth who are aging out U.
Department of Health and Human Services b. This type of strategic decision-making of service vices may predispose youth towards different levels of provision is important to explore given limited state independent service receipt.
Exam- on the service-outcome relationship. Tailor- ing services to youth needs while demonstrating improved Limitations youth outcomes will be the ultimate goal. The loss of granular infor- NYTD data. For example, the NYTD does not distinguish a youth who received tutoring service i. Full information estimation in the presence of useful guideposts, local provision of CFCIP services may incomplete data.
Schumacker reveal service patterns not captured in the NYTD. Relat- Eds. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Addressing racial dis- proportionality in child welfare. Washington, DC: U. Testing this assumption is beyond the scope Congressional Research Service. Youth transitioninng from of this study.
Third, since youth in this study only appeared foster care: Background and federal programs. Cook, R. Are we helping foster care youth prepare for their discontinued services. Discontinuation due to absence of future? Children and Youth Services Review, 16 3 , — Distinct subgroups reporting period or were in and out of service over time. Most importantly, since life skills and predictors of help receipt among current and former this study used NYTD service data and therefore did not foster youth.
Children and Youth Services Review, 33 12 , and could not ascertain whether youth received the appro- — Courtney, M.
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