Research & Development Committee-Sponsored Projects
Title	Asian American Children and Families in Foster Care Systems: Factors Leading to Different Types of Out-of-Home Placement, Adjustments of Children to Foster Care, and Experiences of Immigrant Asian Families in the U.S. Public Child Welfare System
Principal Investigator(s):	Siyon Rhee and Janet Chang
School:	CSU, Los Angeles
Project Goal:	To identify policy, practice, and service delivery implications for the use of out-of-home care for Asian American children and to evaluate service needs, cross-cultural experience, and barriers faced by immigrant Asian parents in Los Angeles.
Project Duration:	2 years
Project Status:	Completed
Project Outcomes:	Curriculum: "CHILD ABUSE: Characteristics and Patterns Among Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese American Families An Empirically Based Curriculum" developed by Siyon Rhee and Janet Chang. This curriculum focuses on child maltreatment issues and effective practice strategies among immigrant Asian families. Specifically, it elucidates demographic and behavioral characteristics of child abuse victims and perpetrators in four major immigrant Asian communities (Cambodian, Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese), factors contributing to the selection of two types of placement (in-home and out-of-home) by child protective services workers, and effective child welfare practice with immigrant Asian families.