What is the role of kinship foster care?
Data collection consisted of a telephone interview with caseworkers to obtain information on a national random sample of children and their families who received child welfare services between March 1, 1993 and March 1, 1994 and on cases from the pilot study, which were served over an earlier one year period.1 Data collection consisted of collecting information directly from caseworkers for the purpose of obtaining complete and comparable information about services delivered to children and their families. This strategy was chosen for two reasons. First, previous research has shown that there is a lack of service information available in case records and that direct interviews with caseworkers offer the most complete information. Second, a telephone interview was chosen instead of a self-administered form because prior research has shown that caseworkers are far more amenable to answering questions by telephone than to filling out self-administered questionnaires. 2.2 Sample Design The
