Haksoon Ahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4261870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Haksoon Ahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Haksoon |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahn |
| SIGNATURE | AHN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0467-8196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Time to permanency among children involved in transitions into and out of kinship and non-kinship foster care
A cross-country comparison of child welfare system between Korea and the United States
A review of sources and preliminary findings for understanding foster care re-entry services and outcomes
Poverty and child maltreatment
African American Parents’ experience with early childhood mental health and child welfare services
Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment
To examine the role of subjective and objective poverty in relation to child maltreatment through parenting aggravation, the current study selected the biological mothers in wave 5 of the Future of Families & Child Wellbeing Study. The results showed that material hardship was consistently associated with all the child maltreatment outcomes through parenting aggravation, while only certain poverty threshold categories were related to physical abu…
Impact of Covid-19 on child welfare practice and implications for future practice
The COVID−19 pandemic has impacted child welfare practice and outcomes. This study examines the perspectives of families and professionals on child welfare practice during the COVID−19 pandemic. Qualitative data from feedback surveys and focus groups were used to provide a comprehensive examination of the concepts being explored. Results of this study suggested positive outcomes of virtual meetings and trainings and raised attention to delays in …
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Child Welfare and Court
Collaboration between the child welfare and court systems is critical. Using qualitative data, experiences of stakeholders were examined to identify areas where growth is needed. Stakeholders included: Local Department of Social Services (LDSS) child welfare workers (n = 28); LDSS supervisors (n = 32); LDSS directors and assistant directors (n = 13); judges and magistrates (n = 11); and attorneys (n = 16). Three main themes were identified: barri…
Survival Analysis of Factors Associated With Achievement of Reunification Among Children in Foster Care
Understanding the performance of county health service delivery in Kenya
To better understand the wide variation of performance among county health systems in Kenya, this study investigated their performance determinants. We selected five counties with varied performance and examined their performance across five domains containing 10 thematic areas. We conducted a stakeholder analysis, consisting of focus group discussions and key informant interviews, and administered a quantitative survey to quantify the magnitude …
Family team decision meeting and child welfare service disparities
Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and child welfare outcomes in the United States
The Child and Family Services Review (CFSR), created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), was first implemented in 2000 to examine the effectiveness of public child welfare agencies and promote positive child and family outcomes across the nation. After providing a brief history of the CFSR, its methodology, and notable changes that have occurred over the past two decades, this study presents a review of the CFSR results …
Foster Parent Perspectives and Experiences with Public Child Welfare
Purpose The retention of foster homes remains a concern across the United States; therefore, this study sought to examine foster parent perspectives of their fostering experience, adding to a body of research aimed at improving foster parent retention rates.Methods Qualitative data was collected through individual interviews with foster parents across state jurisdictions.Results Three main themes were identified; caseworker visitation, communicat…
Child welfare policy and services in Korea
Over the past 20 years, the Korean government has developed child welfare laws to respond to an increasing number of child maltreatment cases and create a centralized child welfare delivery system. However, the system remains fragmented and under‐developed due to a lack of understanding of child maltreatment and limited government support. Further, few studies have comprehensively reviewed the system. This study examines the Korean child welfare …
Measuring Family-Centered Practice in Child Welfare
Although family-centered practice has been implemented nationwide in child welfare, measures for evaluating family-centered practice have not been well-established. This study aimed to evaluate the factor structure of the Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the factor structure of the Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire. The five-factor and second-order five-factor models of the revise…
A new kinship typology and factors associated with receiving financial assistance in kinship care
Cost-effectiveness of health systems strengthening interventions in improving maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries
Estimating minimum adequate foster care costs for children in the United States
Predictors of non-U.S. born mothers' parenting stress across early childhood in fragile families
Predictors of Mental Health and Developmental Service Utilization Among Children Age Birth to 5 Years in Child Welfare
Responding to child maltreatment
A recent study estimated that over one‐fourth of Chinese children have suffered maltreatment (Fang et al., 2015 ). However, the current child welfare policy in China is limited to orphans, abandoned children, and children with disabilities. Also, there is very little comparative research in China on Chinese and other countries’ child welfare systems. The purpose of this study was to analyze applicable US and Chinese child welfare policies, identi…
Family involvement meetings
A survival analysis of the length of foster parenting duration and implications for recruitment and retention of foster parents
Predictors of behavioral problems in young children 3 to 9 years old
Development of a Quality Assurance and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model in Public Child Welfare Systems
The purpose of this article is to review the development and implementation of a revised quality assurance and continuous quality improvement (CQI) model for the child welfare system in one Mid-Atlantic state, and the contribution of this new process to measuring the quality of child welfare practices. This revised CQI model in the state includes a broader scope of assessing practice and outcomes, as well as compliance, and engages internal and e…
Child Welfare Worker Perception of the Implementation of Family-Centered Practice
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of Family-Centered Practice (FCP) among child welfare workers who are expected to use FCP principles in their work with children and families. Method: Nine focus groups were conducted among child welfare workers across seven different regions within one state to assess caseworker’s experiences with FCP. Results: Themes related to time, resources and opportunities, work climate, and …
A survival analysis of the length of foster parenting duration and implications for recruitment and retention of foster parents
Child care subsidy, child care costs, and employment of low-income single mothers
A new kinship typology and factors associated with receiving financial assistance in kinship care
Estimating minimum adequate foster care costs for children in the United States
Participants’ Satisfaction With Family Involvement Meetings
Purpose: Bivariate and logistics regression analyses were conducted to examine the effectiveness of child welfare agencies’ Family Group Decision-Making (FGDM) practices focused on strengthening families and positive outcomes for children. This study evaluates one mid-Atlantic state’s implementation of a FGDM called family involvement meetings (FIMs) to improve family strengths and their active engagement in the service planning process. Methods:…
Factors Associated With Foster Parents' Perceptions of Agency Effectiveness in Preparing Them for Their Role
Family foster homes are a critical resource for children involved in the child welfare system. However, high dropout rates and a shortage of foster homes are an enduring concern for most child welfare agencies (Chipungu & Bent-Goodley, 2004 Chipungu, S. S. and Bent-Goodley, T. B. 2004. Meeting the challenges of contemporary foster care. Future of Children, 14(1): 75–93. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). To address this problem, …
Responding to child maltreatment
A recent study estimated that over one‐fourth of Chinese children have suffered maltreatment (Fang et al., 2015 ). However, the current child welfare policy in China is limited to orphans, abandoned children, and children with disabilities. Also, there is very little comparative research in China on Chinese and other countries’ child welfare systems. The purpose of this study was to analyze applicable US and Chinese child welfare policies, identi…
Family involvement meetings
Predictors of behavioral problems in young children 3 to 9 years old
Foster Parent Perspectives and Experiences with Public Child Welfare
Purpose The retention of foster homes remains a concern across the United States; therefore, this study sought to examine foster parent perspectives of their fostering experience, adding to a body of research aimed at improving foster parent retention rates.Methods Qualitative data was collected through individual interviews with foster parents across state jurisdictions.Results Three main themes were identified; caseworker visitation, communicat…
Development of a Quality Assurance and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model in Public Child Welfare Systems
The purpose of this article is to review the development and implementation of a revised quality assurance and continuous quality improvement (CQI) model for the child welfare system in one Mid-Atlantic state, and the contribution of this new process to measuring the quality of child welfare practices. This revised CQI model in the state includes a broader scope of assessing practice and outcomes, as well as compliance, and engages internal and e…
Impact of Income Inequality on Workers’ Life Satisfaction in the U.S
Child welfare policy and services in Korea
Over the past 20 years, the Korean government has developed child welfare laws to respond to an increasing number of child maltreatment cases and create a centralized child welfare delivery system. However, the system remains fragmented and under‐developed due to a lack of understanding of child maltreatment and limited government support. Further, few studies have comprehensively reviewed the system. This study examines the Korean child welfare …
Economic well‐being of low‐income single‐mother families following welfare reform in the USA
This study explored changes in net disposable income for low‐income single‐mother families before and after the 1996 welfare reform in the USA . Although many studies on welfare reform have focused on employment or total family income as a way to measure low‐income single‐mother families’ economic well‐being, little is known about their net income after expenses related to entering the workforce. This study analyzed net disposable income after ta…
Disentangling the impact of poverty threshold and material hardship on child maltreatment
To examine the role of subjective and objective poverty in relation to child maltreatment through parenting aggravation, the current study selected the biological mothers in wave 5 of the Future of Families & Child Wellbeing Study. The results showed that material hardship was consistently associated with all the child maltreatment outcomes through parenting aggravation, while only certain poverty threshold categories were related to physical abu…
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Child Welfare and Court
Collaboration between the child welfare and court systems is critical. Using qualitative data, experiences of stakeholders were examined to identify areas where growth is needed. Stakeholders included: Local Department of Social Services (LDSS) child welfare workers (n = 28); LDSS supervisors (n = 32); LDSS directors and assistant directors (n = 13); judges and magistrates (n = 11); and attorneys (n = 16). Three main themes were identified: barri…
Predictors of non-U.S. born mothers' parenting stress across early childhood in fragile families
A confirmatory factor analysis of the evidence-based practice attitudes scale in child welfare
A multi-level analysis of individual and agency effects on implementation of family-centered practice in child welfare
Factors Associated With Foster Parents' Perceptions of Agency Effectiveness in Preparing Them for Their Role
Family foster homes are a critical resource for children involved in the child welfare system. However, high dropout rates and a shortage of foster homes are an enduring concern for most child welfare agencies (Chipungu & Bent-Goodley, 2004 Chipungu, S. S. and Bent-Goodley, T. B. 2004. Meeting the challenges of contemporary foster care. Future of Children, 14(1): 75–93. [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]). To address this problem, …
Child Welfare Worker Perception of the Implementation of Family-Centered Practice
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of Family-Centered Practice (FCP) among child welfare workers who are expected to use FCP principles in their work with children and families. Method: Nine focus groups were conducted among child welfare workers across seven different regions within one state to assess caseworker’s experiences with FCP. Results: Themes related to time, resources and opportunities, work climate, and …
Child care subsidy, child care costs, and employment of low-income single mothers
Economic well‐being of low‐income single‐mother families following welfare reform in the USA
This study explored changes in net disposable income for low‐income single‐mother families before and after the 1996 welfare reform in the USA . Although many studies on welfare reform have focused on employment or total family income as a way to measure low‐income single‐mother families’ economic well‐being, little is known about their net income after expenses related to entering the workforce. This study analyzed net disposable income after ta…
Impact of Income Inequality on Workers’ Life Satisfaction in the U.S
Development of a Quality Assurance and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Model in Public Child Welfare Systems
The purpose of this article is to review the development and implementation of a revised quality assurance and continuous quality improvement (CQI) model for the child welfare system in one Mid-Atlantic state, and the contribution of this new process to measuring the quality of child welfare practices. This revised CQI model in the state includes a broader scope of assessing practice and outcomes, as well as compliance, and engages internal and e…
Participants’ Satisfaction With Family Involvement Meetings
Purpose: Bivariate and logistics regression analyses were conducted to examine the effectiveness of child welfare agencies’ Family Group Decision-Making (FGDM) practices focused on strengthening families and positive outcomes for children. This study evaluates one mid-Atlantic state’s implementation of a FGDM called family involvement meetings (FIMs) to improve family strengths and their active engagement in the service planning process. Methods:…
Resource needs and gap analysis in achieving universal access to HIV/Aids services
BACKGROUND: -To manage the human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) epidemic, international donors have pledged unprecedented commitments for needed services. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) projected that low- and middle-income countries needed $25 billion to meet the 2010 HIV/AIDS goal of universal access to AIDS prevention and care, using the resource needs model (RNM). METHODS: -D…
A confirmatory factor analysis of the evidence-based practice attitudes scale in child welfare
A multi-level analysis of individual and agency effects on implementation of family-centered practice in child welfare
Predictors of Mental Health and Developmental Service Utilization Among Children Age Birth to 5 Years in Child Welfare
Responding to child maltreatment
A recent study estimated that over one‐fourth of Chinese children have suffered maltreatment (Fang et al., 2015 ). However, the current child welfare policy in China is limited to orphans, abandoned children, and children with disabilities. Also, there is very little comparative research in China on Chinese and other countries’ child welfare systems. The purpose of this study was to analyze applicable US and Chinese child welfare policies, identi…
Family involvement meetings
A survival analysis of the length of foster parenting duration and implications for recruitment and retention of foster parents
Predictors of behavioral problems in young children 3 to 9 years old
Cost-effectiveness of health systems strengthening interventions in improving maternal and child health in low- and middle-income countries
Estimating minimum adequate foster care costs for children in the United States
Predictors of non-U.S. born mothers' parenting stress across early childhood in fragile families
Measuring Family-Centered Practice in Child Welfare
Although family-centered practice has been implemented nationwide in child welfare, measures for evaluating family-centered practice have not been well-established. This study aimed to evaluate the factor structure of the Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire. Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to examine the factor structure of the Family-Centered Practice Questionnaire. The five-factor and second-order five-factor models of the revise…
A new kinship typology and factors associated with receiving financial assistance in kinship care
Child and Family Services Review (CFSR) and child welfare outcomes in the United States
The Child and Family Services Review (CFSR), created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS), was first implemented in 2000 to examine the effectiveness of public child welfare agencies and promote positive child and family outcomes across the nation. After providing a brief history of the CFSR, its methodology, and notable changes that have occurred over the past two decades, this study presents a review of the CFSR results …
Foster Parent Perspectives and Experiences with Public Child Welfare
Purpose The retention of foster homes remains a concern across the United States; therefore, this study sought to examine foster parent perspectives of their fostering experience, adding to a body of research aimed at improving foster parent retention rates.Methods Qualitative data was collected through individual interviews with foster parents across state jurisdictions.Results Three main themes were identified; caseworker visitation, communicat…
Child welfare policy and services in Korea
Over the past 20 years, the Korean government has developed child welfare laws to respond to an increasing number of child maltreatment cases and create a centralized child welfare delivery system. However, the system remains fragmented and under‐developed due to a lack of understanding of child maltreatment and limited government support. Further, few studies have comprehensively reviewed the system. This study examines the Korean child welfare …
Understanding the performance of county health service delivery in Kenya
To better understand the wide variation of performance among county health systems in Kenya, this study investigated their performance determinants. We selected five counties with varied performance and examined their performance across five domains containing 10 thematic areas. We conducted a stakeholder analysis, consisting of focus group discussions and key informant interviews, and administered a quantitative survey to quantify the magnitude …
Family team decision meeting and child welfare service disparities
Psychology (23 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (22 works) · Medicine (20 works) · Welfare (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Economic growth (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Nursing (11 works)