JBA has conducted over 50 child welfare studies and evaluations for Federal and state agencies, including the Children's Bureau, the National Institute of Justice, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services. JBA's projects have addressed all aspects of the child welfare field, including: child maltreatment prevention; adoption services, including efforts to increase adoptions of children in the child welfare system; foster parent recruitment, training, and retention; major system reform initiatives in the child welfare field; waivers of Title IV-E funds used for foster care maintenance and adoption assistance to test new service delivery approaches; and child welfare agencies' implementation of practice changes following new state or Federal legislation.

Click on the following links to learn more about JBA's projects in the area of child welfare and family services:

• Cross-Site Evaluation of the Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program
• Implementation Study of Family Preservation/Family Support Programs
• Adaptable Evaluation Training and Technical Assistance for Healthy Marriage, Promoting Responsible Fatherhood and Tribal/TANF Child Welfare Grantees
• Evaluation and Technical Assistance for the Title IV E Child Welfare Waiver Demonstrations
• National Survey of Current and Former Foster Parents
• Evaluation of Kansas' Foster Care Privatization Efforts
• National Cross-Site Evaluation of the Replication of Demonstrated Effective Prevention Programs
• Justice System Processing of Child Welfare Cases
• National Estimate of the Number of Boarder Babies, Abandoned Infants and Discarded Newborns
• Technical Assistance on Evaluation for Children's Bureau Discretionary Grantees