In this special issue of Children and Youth Services Review, we present a sampling of research and scholarship performed by members of the International Association for Outcome-Based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children's Services (iaOBERfcs). The iaOBERfcs is a small group of scholars...

The purpose of the study was to explore the contribution of personal and agency factors to job satisfaction, organizational commitment and retention indicators (intention to leave, preference for leaving, and looked for a job) in a state child welfare agency with fewer than eight percent...

This article reports selected findings from a five-year, comprehensive evaluation of a program designed based on principles and practices found to be most predictive of successful family reunification. The study reported here matched families in the program with families receiving standard state...

Most Israeli children who spend their youth away from their birth parents live in youth villages. The majority of these children come from either the geographical or social periphery of Israel. Since the 1990s the youth villages have specialized in absorbing immigrants mainly from the former...

This study explores the current status of young alumni of educational residential settings (Youth Villages) in Israel. The goal was to describe their current functioning in a variety of life domains and their current perceptions of the transition to independent living, as well as to explore...

This study explores the subjective well-being (SWB) of young people aging out of public care in Israel, identifying the individual, social support and institutional characteristics of young people on the verge of leaving care that predict their SWB one year later. The results were obtained from...

Among the rationales used in promoting juvenile diversion is cost savings. This rationale is based on the assumption that diversion handling is less expensive than formal justice processing and that diversion reduces the number of cases handled by the formal system. To date, the few available...

This paper will provide an overview and analysis of developments in child protection and out of home care in Australia. It will outline early responses to perceived inadequate parenting to provide the historical and policy contexts of contemporary debates on, and responses to, the care and...

This paper reports research on outcomes of long term foster care from an eight year longitudinal study of foster care placements. Using a prospective, repeated measures design and a multi-informant approach, the outcomes of 59 children were assessed at two yearly intervals as they progressed in...