The state must have fewer than six placement moves per child every 1,000 days to comply with the lawsuit. The end goal is fewer than 4.4 moves. That means foster kids, on average, cannot live in more than six different homes in any 1,000-day...
Reports on the attempt in Kansas to privatize child welfare. Concept behind the privatization efforts; Why the effort only succeeded in establishing welfare as semi-private; Details of how the system works; Di...
Kansas provider takes on child welfare managed care initiative.Reports on the partnership between United Methodist Youthville Inc. and Value Behavioral Health Inc. to implement a comprehensive system of foster care and related services for children in the custody of Kansas. Child-serving agency's ...
She also had a son. And some denial about her dependence on drugs, how she’d take a hit of something to deal with the stress about her grandmother catching COVID-19, the fact that she was homeless or that child welfare officials had an open case on whe...
Reports on the managed care initiative for child welfare in Kansas. Funding for the initiative; Remarks of mental health executives regarding the sufficiency of funds for the program; Mental health needs of children in foster care system; Concern about the long-term results of the child welfare ...
It was billed as the grand experiment in privatizing child welfare.Kansas would bid out adoption, foster care, and other services to private companies. They'd be paid a lump sum for each child. It was up to them to figure out how to deal with the caseload.But somewhere between idea and...
Managed Child Welfare: Kansas Breaks New Ground.(for Youthville Inc. and the KanCare Service Center)Smith, Robert
Kansas-based child welfare group to meet colleaguesDawn Miller
Three states are taking the lead in overhauling the way they oversee babies, children and teens...Wetzstein, Cheryl
doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.02.020Unruh, Jennifer K.; Hodgkin, Dominic (2004): "The Role of Contract Design in Privatization of Child Welfare Services: the Kansas Experience", in: Children and Youth Services Review, 26. 771- 783.