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Message ID: 10837

Date: 2020-08-10

Author:Kate Piper

Subject:Re: outcomes for children in foster care vs. reunified of women released from prison

I d be interested in seeing your results, Dylan. I would suggest that you include in your analysis some baseline information about the children at the time they came into custody. It may well be different for children in custody due to the incarceration of a parent but what I saw in my 20 years of representing children in child protection hearings was the overwhelming damage to kids by the time they were removed from the home due to years of maltreatment and despite multiple reports to DCF and years of services to the parents. Most of these kids had some of these: PTSD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, developmental delays, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, school problems-behavioral &/or academic, etc. Most states are now doing trauma assessments of children when they come into custody. That would be a good starting point. You might also want to look at the federal data on re entry into foster care after reunification. Good luck! Kate Piper, JD, PhD Kathrynapiper@gmail.com Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2020, at 7:21 AM, Small, Dylan S wrote:  Hi everyone, I’m interested in doing a causal analysis of the effect of remaining in foster care vs. reunification for children of women released from prison. I’m wondering if anyone is aware of a study (studies) that have been done on this question. Thanks. Best regards, Dylan Dylan Small, Ph.D. Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Statistics and Department Chair Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

I d be interested in seeing your results, Dylan. I would suggest that you include in your analysis some baseline information about the children at the time they came into custody. It may well be different for children in custody due to the incarceration of a parent but what I saw in my 20 years of representing children in child protection hearings was the overwhelming damage to kids by the time they were removed from the home due to years of maltreatment and despite multiple reports to DCF and years of services to the parents. Most of these kids had some of these: PTSD, Reactive Attachment Disorder, developmental delays, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, school problems-behavioral &/or academic, etc. Most states are now doing trauma assessments of children when they come into custody. That would be a good starting point. You might also want to look at the federal data on re entry into foster care after reunification. Good luck! Kate Piper, JD, PhD Kathrynapipergmail.com Sent from my iPad On Aug 10, 2020, at 7:21 AM, Small, Dylan S wrote:  Hi everyone, I’m interested in doing a causal analysis of the effect of remaining in foster care vs. reunification for children of women released from prison. I’m wondering if anyone is aware of a study (studies) that have been done on this question. Thanks. Best regards, Dylan Dylan Small, Ph.D. Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Statistics and Department Chair Department of Statistics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania