Urbanicity and County-Level Variation in Transitional Housing Placements for Transition-Age Youth in California Foster Care

Sunggeun Park, Selena Liu-Raphael, Anthony Gómez, Justin Harty, Nathanael Okpych, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, California Alliance of Child and Family Services, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, School of Social Work, Arizona State University, School of Social Work, University of Connecticut

Child Maltreatment

Published online on August 03, 2026

Abstract

Child Maltreatment, Ahead of Print.
The decentralized U.S. child welfare system has resulted in significant variation in practices and outcomes across states and counties. Despite growing attention to varying child welfare experiences based on urbanicity, particularly rural child welfare ...