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  • Child Welfare and Foster Care SystemsChild Welfare and Foster Care Systems
  • Community ChangeCommunity Change
  • Early Childhood InitiativesEarly Childhood Initiatives
  • Economic Supports for FamiliesEconomic Supports for Families
  • Home Visitation and Maltreatment PreventionHome Visitation and Maltreatment Prevention
  • Longitudinal Data AnalyticsLongitudinal Data Analytics
  • Schools and School SystemsSchools and School Systems
  • Workforce DevelopmentWorkforce Development
  • Youth Crime and JusticeYouth Crime and Justice
  • Youth Development and Afterschool InitiativesYouth Development and Afterschool Initiatives

Research and Presentations by Robert Goerge

Postsecondary Educational Trajectories of Urban Youth: Addressing Vulnerabilities and Barriers to Enrollment and Persistence

Carolina Milesi, Jiffy Lansing, Katie Claussen Bell, Robert Goerge, and Matthew Stagner
2010

Illinois Families and Their Use of Multiple Service Systems

Robert M. Goerge, Cheryl Smithgall, Roopa Seshadri, Peter Ballard
2010

How Active Are Teens during Their Out-of-School Time?

Robert M. Goerge, Gretchen Ruth Cusick, Shannon Guiltinan
2009

Continuing in Foster Care Beyond Age 18: How Courts Can Help

Clark Peters, Katie S. Claussen Bell, Andrew Zinn, Robert M. Goerge, Mark E. Courtney
2008

After-School Programs and Academic Impact: A Study of Chicago's After School Matters

Robert M. Goerge, Gretchen Ruth Cusick, Miriam Wasserman, Robert Matthew Gladden
2007

Youth Who Run Away From Out-Of-Home Care

Mark E. Courtney, Ada Skyles, Gina Miranda, Andrew Zinn, Eboni Howard, Robert M. Goerge
2005

Chicago's Labor Force in Context

Elizabeth Weigensberg, Daniel Kreisman, Kyung Park, Dan Black, Matthew Stagner, Robert Goerge, Hansong Cai, Colleen Schlecht
2011

Reading on Grade Level in Third Grade: How Is It Related to High School Performance and College Enrollment?

Joy Lesnick, Robert M. Goerge, Cheryl Smithgall, Julia Gwynne
2010

Family Assessment in Child Welfare: The Illinois DCFS Integrated Assessment Program in Policy and Practice

Cheryl Smithgall, Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, Duck-Hye Yang, Jan DeCoursey, LaShaun Brooks, Robert Goerge
2009

Identifying, Interviewing, and Intervening: Fathers and the Illinois Child Welfare System

Cheryl Smithgall, Jan DeCoursey, Elissa Gitlow, Duck-Hye Yang, Elizabeth Jarpe-Ratner, Jiffy Lansing, Robert Goerge
2009

Improving Indicators of Child Well-Being

Matthew Stagner, Robert Goerge, Pete Ballard
2009

From Corrections to Community

Gretchen Ruth Cusick, Robert M. Goerge, Katie Claussen Bell
2009

Intergenerational and Interconnected: Mental Health and Well-being in Grandparent Caregiver Families

Cheryl Smithgall, Sally Mason, Lisa Michels, Christina LiCalsi, Robert Goerge
2009

Does Money Matter?

Cheryl Smithgall, Jan DeCoursey, Robert M. Goerge
2008

Consequences of Teen Childbearing for Child Abuse, Neglect, and Foster Care Placement

Robert Goerge, Allen Harden
2008

Chicago Children and Youth 1990-2010

Robert M. Goerge, John Dilts, Duck-Hye Yang, Miriam Wasserman, Anne Clary
2007

Measuring Social Capital

Robert J. Chaskin, Robert M. Goerge, Ada Skyles, Shannon Guiltinan
2006

Indicators of Children’s Well-being

Asher Ben-Arieh and Robert M. Goerge, Eds.
2006

What High School Students in The Chicago Public Schools Do in Their Out-of-School Time

Robert M. Goerge, Robert J. Chaskin, Shannon Guiltinan
2006

Caring for Their Children's Children

Cheryl Smithgall, Sally Mason, Lisa Michels, Christina LiCalsi, Robert M. Goerge
2006

A Study of Placement Stability in Illinois

Andrew Zinn, Jan DeCoursey, Robert M. Goerge, Mark E. Courtney
2006

Comparing GIS-Based Methods of Measuring Spatial Accessibility to Health Services

Duck-Hye Yang, Robert Goerge and Ross Mullner
2005

The Effect of Race on Reunification from Substitute Care in Cook County

Robert M. Goerge and Lucy Mackey Bilaver
2005

Studying the Role of Child Well-Being Indicators in the Policy Process

Asher Ben-Arieh and Robert M. Goerge, Eds.
2005

Behavior Problems and Educational Disruptions Among Children in Out-of-Home Care in Chicago

Cheryl Smithgall, Robert Matthew Gladden, Duck-Hye Yang, Robert M. Goerge
2005

Youth Who Run Away from Substitute Care

Mark E. Courtney, Ada Skyles, Gina Miranda, Andrew Zinn, Eboni Howard, Robert M. Goerge
2005

Improving Geocoding Practices: Evaluation of Geocoding Tools

Duck-Hye Yang, Lucy Mackey Bilaver, Oscar Hayes and Robert Goerge
2004

Improving Access to Health Care for Foster Children

Paula Kienberger Jaudes, Lucy A. Bilaver, Robert M. Goerge, James Masterson, Charles Catania
2004

Child Care Subsidy Use and Employment Outcomes of Low-Income Mothers during Early Years of Welfare Reform

Bong Joo Lee, Robert M. Goerge, Mairead Reidy, J. Lee Kreader, Annie Georges, Robert L. Wagmiller Jr., Jane Staveley, David Stevens, Ann Dryden Witte
2004

Understanding the Food Stamp Program Participation Decisions of TANF Leavers

Robert M. Goerge, Mairead Reidy, Sandra Lyons, Meejung Chin, Allison Harris
2004

What Ninth Grade Students in the Chicago Public Schools Do in their Out-of-School Time

Robert M. Goerge, Robert J. Chaskin
2004

Residential Care in Illinois

Stephen Budde, Susan Mayer, Andrew Zinn, Melissa Lippold, Adam Avrushin, Ava Bromberg, Robert M. Goerge, Mark E. Courtney, Amy Dworsky
2004

Educational Experiences of Children in Out-of-Home Care

Cheryl Smithgall, Robert Matthew Gladden, Eboni Howard, Robert M. Goerge, Mark E. Courtney
2004

Use of Administrative Data for Implementation Research

Robert M. Goerge
2003

The Patterns of Food Stamp and WIC Participation Under Welfare Reform

Bong Joo Lee, Lucy Mackey Bilaver and Robert M. Goerge
2003

Matching and Cleaning Administrative Data

Robert M. Goerge and Bong Joo Lee
2002

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging out of Foster Care

Robert M. Goerge, Lucy Mackey Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee, Barbara Needell, Alan Brookhart, William Jackman
2002

Information for Communities

Ada Skyles, Susan Campbell, Robert Goerge, Bong Joo Lee
2001

The State of the Child in Illinois: 2000

Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee, Lucy Mackey Bilaver, John Dilts, Allen Harden, Jacqueline Moore, Tamara Perry, Clark Peters, Barbara Ray, Mairead Reidy, Michael Weir, Jolyon Wurr
2001

An Update from the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive

Fred Wulczyn, Kristen Brunner Hislop, Robert M. Goerge
2000

Caseload Dynamics, Employment and Earnings in Illinois, 1991-1999

Bong Joo Lee, Robert M. Goerge, John Dilts
2000

Adoption from Foster Care

Allen Harden, Fred Wulczyn, Robert M. Goerge
1999

Planning for Human Service Reform Using Integrated Administrative Data

Mairead Reidy, Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee
1999

Developing an Integrated Administrative Database

Mairead Reidy, Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee
1999

Impact of Reform in the Cook County Juvenile Court's Child Protection Division

Sheila Merry, Clark Peters, Lucy Mackey Bilaver, Robert M. Goerge, Bong Joo Lee
1999

DCFS Multiple Projects

Robert Goerge
2012

CWICstats Chicago Workforce Research and Data Initiative

Matthew Stagner, Robert Goerge, Elizabeth Weigensberg, Shannon Guiltinan, Lauren Sartain, Peter Ballard, Dan Black
2011

Study of Factors Related to Successful Workforce Development Program Practices

Matt Stagner, Robert Goerge, Elizabeth Weigensberg, Colleen Schlecht, Peter Ballard
2011

Illinois DHS TANF Reporting

Robert Goerge, Allison Harris
2010

Understanding Social Program Take-Up among Low-Income Families: Developing Data on Child Care Subsidies and the Food Stamp Program

Robert Goerge, Principal Investigator
2009

Food Stamp Eligibility and Participation in Illinois and Maryland: Census Survey and Administrative Data

Robert Goerge, Principal Investigator
2009

Young Children in Chicago Website

Robert Goerge, Principal Investigator
2009

Museum of Science and Industry: Developing a Research Agenda

Robert Goerge, Principal Investigator
2009

What proportion of Illinois's service resources are devoted to families with multiple needs?

Robert Goerge, Cheryl Smithgall, Roopa Seshadri

When both of their parents participate in the Integrated Assessment interviews, are Illinois foster children more likely to return home?

Robert Goerge, Cheryl Smithgall,

Most Illinois Children in Foster Care Were Born to Former Teen Mothers

Robert Goerge, Allen Harden

The International Network of Child Policy Research Centers

, Robert Goerge

From Data To Decisions: What Is Needed For Planning Public Services?

Robert Goerge
May 13, 2010

The Real Costs of Teen Motherhood

Matthew Stagner, Robert Goerge
October 23, 2008
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