Child Welfare Services Case Management System
Author : California. Department of Social Services
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Child welfare
ISBN :
Author : California. Department of Social Services
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Child welfare
ISBN :
Author : California. Bureau of State Audits
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Auditors' reports
ISBN :
Author : Jeffrey Rosenberg
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Child abuse
ISBN :
Author : Richard Gelles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0190618035
Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements. - Deciding who is the client. Child welfare systems attempt to balance the needs of the child and those of the parents, often failing both. Clearly answering this question is the most important, yet unaddressed, issue facing the child welfare system. - Decisions. The key task for a caseworker is not to provide services but to make decisions regarding child abuse and neglect, case goals, and placement; however, practitioners have only the crudest tools at their disposal when making what are literally life and death decisions. - The Perverse Incentive. Billions of dollars are spent each year to place and maintain children in out-of-home care. Foster care is meant to be short-term, yet the existing federal funding serves as a perverse incentive to keep children in out-of-home placements. - Aging out. More than 20,000 youth age out of the foster care system each year, and yet what the system calls "emancipation" could more accurately be viewed as child neglect. After having spent months, years, or longer moving from placement to placement, aging-out youth are suddenly thrust into homelessness, unemployment, welfare, and oppressive disadvantage. The chapters in this book offer a blueprint for reform that eschews the tired cycle of a tragedy followed by outrage and calls for more money, staff, training, and lawsuits that provide, at best, fleeting relief as a new complacency slowly sets in until the cycle repeats. If we want, instead, to try something else, the changes that Gelles outlines in this book are affordable, scalable, and proven.
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 38,72 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Child care services
ISBN :
Author : Rodney A. Ellis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0471234230
Reach children and families and help them navigate the child welfare system Case planning is one of the fundamental steps in working with dependent children, yet it is also one of the most challenging. Essentials of Child Welfare presents the key information clinical social workers, child advocates, family law attorneys, and other human services personnel need to work successfully with children and families in the child welfare system. Essentials of Child Welfare is packed with step-by-step guidelines for intervening proactively with foster care children and their caretakers. Techniques are presented for handling a number of related topics, including attachment issues, substance abuse, sexual abuse (victim and perpetrator), suicidal ideation, eating disorders, learning disabilities, juvenile delinquency, domestic abuse, and many more. As part of the Essentials of Social Work Practice series, this book offers a concise yet thorough overview of child welfare, numerous tips for best practices, and a prioritized assembly of all the information and techniques that must be at one's fingertips to practice knowledgeably, effectively, and ethically. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as "Test Yourself" questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.
Author : Richard P. Barth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1351518798
More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care. Until now, the relationships between the performance of our child welfare system and the growth and outcomes of foster care have not been understood. In an effort to clarify them, Barth and his colleagues have synthesized the results of their longitudinal study in California of the paths taken by children after the initial abuse report: foster care, a return to their homes, or placement for adoption. Because of the outcomes of child welfare services in California have national significance, this is far more than a regional study. It provides a comprehensive picture of children's experiences in the child welfare system and a gauge of the effectiveness of that system. The policy implications of the California study have bearing on major federal and state initiatives to prevent child abuse and reduce unnecessary foster and group home care.
Author : Alan J. Dettlaff
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 3030543145
This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child welfare. It offers a central source of information for students and practitioners who are seeking understanding on how structural and institutional racism can be addressed in public systems.
Author :
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,25 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780202360867
More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care.
Author : Susan L. Klaus
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Abused children
ISBN :