When controlling for individual-level characteristics and child welfare system factors, three experiences – reason for enter into foster care, type of out-of-home placement, and whether parental rights of both parents’ have been terminated – are significant predictors of increased likelihood into the moderate service and high service utilization groups. Young people whose reason for foster care placement was neglect compared to youth who did not experience neglect are 26% more likely to be in the moderate service and substantially more likely (45%) to be in the high service groups whereas youth who whose own behavior was the recorded reason for entry into foster care compared to youth whose behavior was not a recorded reason for foster care
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Youth from states that deliver state-administered or centralized child welfare services compared to county-administered or hybrid-administered states considerably increases their odds by 91% to be in the high service utilization group. Unlike their counterparts from metropolitan areas, youth in non-metropolitan and rural areas are, 15% and 60%, more likely to be in the high service utilization group …show more content…
White Hispanic youth are 19% less likely than Non-Hispanic White youth to be in the high utilization group. Youth who were removed from unmarried parents compared to youth who were removed from married parents are 36% less likely to be in the high service group. Experiencing 5 or more foster care placements compared to only one foster care placement decreases the odds of being in the high service group by 22.
There were two covariates that predicted an increase likelihood of membership into the moderate service group and a decreased likelihood of being in the high service group. Youth in states that have extended foster care policies are 16% more likely to be in the moderate service group and 28% less likely to be in the high service group compared to youth in the lower services group. Also, youth removed from a single-female home decreases the odds of being in the high service group by
Youth from states that deliver state-administered or centralized child welfare services compared to county-administered or hybrid-administered states considerably increases their odds by 91% to be in the high service utilization group. Unlike their counterparts from metropolitan areas, youth in non-metropolitan and rural areas are, 15% and 60%, more likely to be in the high service utilization group …show more content…
White Hispanic youth are 19% less likely than Non-Hispanic White youth to be in the high utilization group. Youth who were removed from unmarried parents compared to youth who were removed from married parents are 36% less likely to be in the high service group. Experiencing 5 or more foster care placements compared to only one foster care placement decreases the odds of being in the high service group by 22.
There were two covariates that predicted an increase likelihood of membership into the moderate service group and a decreased likelihood of being in the high service group. Youth in states that have extended foster care policies are 16% more likely to be in the moderate service group and 28% less likely to be in the high service group compared to youth in the lower services group. Also, youth removed from a single-female home decreases the odds of being in the high service group by