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ERIC Number: EJ1052084
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015-Mar
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1049-7315
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Effectiveness of Sweden's Contact Family/Person Program for Older Children
Brännström, Lars; Vinnerljung, Bo; Hjern, Anders
Research on Social Work Practice, v25 n2 p190-200 Mar 2015
Objectives: To estimate the impacts of Sweden's Contact Family/Person Program (CFPP) for older children on participants' long-term outcomes related to mental health problems, illicit drug use, public welfare receipt, placement in out-of-home care, educational achievement, and offending. Method: We analyzed longitudinal register data on more than 1,000,000 individuals born between 1973 and 1984, including 6,386 individuals who entered CFPP at 10-13 years of age, with a follow-up until 2008. The program impact was estimated by means of propensity score matching. Results: Outcomes for those who had received the intervention were not better than that for matched peers who did not receive the intervention. Conclusions: The results did not find support for CFPP effectiveness in reducing risks of compromised long-term development in older children.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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