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