Show Me the Money: Child Welfare Cost Savings of a Family Drug Court

Scott W. M. Burrus · Juliette R. Mackin · Michael W. Finigan

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Child Welfare and Adoption Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes Legal and Social Justice Studies

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Family drug courts are programs that serve the complex needs of families involved with the child welfare system due to parental substance abuse. This article summarizes the results of outcomes and selected costs of a system-wide reform located in Baltimore, Maryland. Results from this study found that parents served by the program entered treatment faster, stayed in treatment longer, and completed treatment more often than non-served parents. Children in program families spent less time in foster care and were more likely to be reunified with their biological parents. These outcomes resulted in cost savings, including reduced foster care expenditures.

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