Download or read book An Examination of Foster Care in the United States and the Use of Privatization written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Examination of Foster Care in the United States and the Use of Privatization written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care Public Good and Privatization written by Kimberly Yvette Hoyt and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. child welfare system has continuously struggled to meet and maintain national performance outcome standards that reflect how well they are ensuring safety, facilitating permanency, and promoting well-being for children. These are the specific mandates of public foster care agencies responsible for providing these services, an economic public good, for the greater benefit of our society. Quasi-market solutions, such as privatization, have been increasingly promoted among states, and in some cases implemented, to reform public foster care agencies otherwise deemed ineffective and inefficient. The promoted promise of privatization has been its ability to increase efficiency, accountability, decrease costs, and consequently improve outcomes for children and their families. However, given the economic theory of market competition and public goods, this study questions if privatization measures up to its promise in terms of overall system performance and safety and permanency outcomes for children served. The primary aim of this study was to examine non-privatized and privatized foster care agencies to compare overall system-level performance in terms of national safety and permanency outcome standards; and explore possible differences in child-level outcomes by racial groups between non-privatized and privatized agencies to ascertain relationships between privatization and the issues of disproportionality and disparity. Using a state-level dataset of N1 = 10 states and a large national secondary data set of N2 = 118,761 child abuse and neglect and foster care cases, a series of rigorous analyses were conducted to accomplish the study's goals. The resultant findings of this study suggest that overall, privatized foster care agencies perform no better than non-privatized agencies, and where statistical significant differences were found, results marginally favored non-privatized agency performance over privatized agencies.
Download or read book Artickel so besagte F rsten unnd St nde der Schlesischen L nder und B hemischen K nigreichs Defension halben unter jhnen beschlossen written by and published by . This book was released on 1620 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Does Privatization Matter written by Allison Dunnigan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, at any given time, there are nearly 400,000 children in foster care due to maltreatment or for reasons such as parental incarceration, parental death or voluntary relinquishment. Youth in out of home care are a small proportion of all children served by the child welfare system, but they comprise the majority of the system costs and are at high risk for poor outcomes across a number of domains. Concerns regarding both cost and poor outcomes began a trend toward privatization of child welfare in the mid-1990s. Despite the long history, there has been very little evaluation of outcomes outside of assessing cost savings. This dissertation used data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) supplemented with policy information available through the Child Welfare Gateway and state websites to assess whether youth permanency outcomes (length of stay, type of exit from care and re-entry into care) varied according to privatization of services. Results indicate that overall youth served by privatized systems stay longer in care and are somewhat less likely to have a positive exit (return home, adoption or permanent residence with relative). On the other hand, among those who did exit care, youth served in privatized systems were less likely to return to care. Implications for continued research, policy and program planning are discussed.
Download or read book Mastering United States Government Information written by Christopher C. Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date guide provides informational professionals and their clients with much-needed assistance in navigating the immense field of government information. When information professionals are asked questions involving government information, they often experience that "deer in the headlights" feeling. Mastering United States Government Information helps them overcome any trepidation about finding and using government documents. Written by Christopher C. Brown, coordinator of government documents at the University of Denver, this approachable book provides an introduction to all major areas of U.S. government information. It references resources in all formats, including print and online. Examples are provided so users will feel comfortable solving government information questions on their own, while exercises at the end of chapters enable users to practice answering questions for themselves. Additionally, several appendixes serve as quick reference sources for such topics as congressional sessions, the most popular government publications, federal statistical databases, and citation of government publications. It serves as a practical and current guide for practitioners as well as a text or supplementary reading for students of library information studies and for in-service trainings.
Download or read book Prison by Any Other Name written by Maya Schenwar and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarceration” Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But in a searing, “cogent critique” (Library Journal), Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control, bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment under physical control by the state. Whether readers are seasoned abolitionists or are newly interested in sensible alternatives to retrograde policing and criminal justice policies and approaches, this highly praised book offers “a wealth of critical insights” that will help readers “tread carefully through the dizzying terrain of a world turned upside down” and “make sense of what should take the place of mass incarceration” (The Brooklyn Rail). With a foreword by Michelle Alexander, Prison by Any Other Name exposes how a kinder narrative of reform is effectively obscuring an agenda of social control, challenging us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly alternative justice practices.
Download or read book Privatizing Foster Care Services in Milwaukee County written by Frank Emspak and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care Problems and Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care Problems and Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Torn Apart written by Dorothy Roberts and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.
Download or read book Foster Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Foster Care Administration in the United States written by Rebecca H. Padot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government-by-proxy and intergovernmental relations profoundly affect the public administration of foster care. Using examples from foster care systems in the states of Delaware, Michigan, New York, and Rhode Island, Rebecca Padot eloquently combines a rigorous methodology and theory work to expose the conditions under which foster care outcomes can be improved. The cases selected suggest that the federal government has increased its focus on measuring the performance of state programs while simultaneously decreasing its funding of state foster care programs and offering the states very little management or mentorship. Padot turns the page and recommends administrators place a greater priority on building community partners, integrating the advice of mentors, providing leadership from public managers, and cultivating relationships with the federal government. An original and timely resource for scholars and practitioners, this book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of how leadership and management variables may be associated with more positive foster care practices and performance in the United States.
Download or read book The Politicization of Foster Care in New York City written by L. Trevor Grant and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews & analyzes the politicization of the labyrinthine foster care system in New York City. Emphasis is placed on the political influences & interferences in the foster care system, & lack of direction & initiatives of senior administrators who are political appointees of the Mayor. Political & ideological agendas are responsible for undermining the credibility & the effectiveness of the child welfare agency. The lack of planning & concern for its social workers & the lack of professionalism demonstrate the many contradictions of the agency. The privatization & contracting out of foster care services to voluntary agencies by the Administration for Children's Services (ACS) is discussed. "An important book based on both personal experience & meticulous, scholarly research."--Seth Farber, Ph.D., author of Madness, Heresy, & the Rumor of Angels. "This book provides the strongest indictment ever seen yet of the fiscally driven & morally insensitive child welfare system."--Amy Neustein, Ph.D., Founder: Help Us Regain the Children (HURT). To order send $13.95 plus $3.00 shipping & handling for each copy to: L. Trevor Grant, P.O. Box 311031, Jamaica, NY 11431- 1031. Phone (718) 523-8911.
Download or read book Cost Effective Procedures in Foster Care written by Faye A. Sprunger Koop and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
