Project Description
Authors: Annette Semanchin Jones, MSW; Traci LaLiberte, PhD; Patrick J. Mitchell; and Paul Lennander
Date: February 17, 2010, updated December 2015
This report is the product of a collaboration between Hennepin County and the University of Minnesota, known as the Hennepin-University Partnership, or HUP. It is a comprehensive literature review, annotated bibliography, and evidence-based practice guide on foster care re-entry.
“Re-entry” is defined as the recurrence of child maltreatment after an earlier episode of out-of-home placement that resulted in reunification with biological family.
“Re-entry rates” refer to the rates at which children and youth re-enter foster care after having been returned home to their biological family after an earlier episode of out-of-home placement.
