Download or read book Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster care states early experiences implementing the Adoption and Safe Families Act report to the chairman Subcommittee on Human Resources Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First National Roundtable on Implementing the Adoption and Safe Families Act written by and published by Children's Services. This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foster Care written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEHS-00-1 Foster Care: States' Early Experiences Implementing the Adoption and Safe Families Act
Download or read book Foster Care written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Incarcerated Parents and Their Children written by Christopher J. Mumola and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Foster Care in the Next Century written by Kathy Barbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family foster care is supposed to provide temporary protection and nurturing for children experiencing maltreatment. Although it has long been a critical service for millions of children in the United States, the increased attention given to this service in the last two decades has focused more on its inability to achieve its intended outcomes than on its successes. However, as social and political trends and new legislation reshape child welfare, policymakers and service providers continue to offer innovative policy and practice options for this child welfare service. Though use of the service has changed, family foster care remains important. Responding to a widespread sense of the "drifting" of children in care, Congress passed the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980. This legislation became a key factor shaping the current status of family foster care. Its goal was to reduce reliance on out-of-home care and encourage use of preventive and reunification services; it also mandated that agencies engage in planning efforts for permanent solutions for foster children. Yet, despite federal mandates and funding, the child welfare system has continued to struggle to provide the level of services needed for children to reduce the amount of time children remain in temporary foster care. The latest response to these problems, the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, established unequivocally that safety, permanency, and well-being were national goals for children in the child welfare system. To comply with the law, public and private agencies are required to initiate significant program and practice changes in the coming years to improve permanency outcomes and child well-being in family foster care. The central theme of the volume is accountability for outcomes, certainly a current driving force in child welfare as well as in other public and private service fields. This volume will be of interest to all concerned with the social welfare of children and families at the end of the twentieth century. Kathy Barbell is director of Foster Care of the Child Welfare League of America, Washington, DC. Lois Wright is assistant dean at the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
Download or read book Civil Penalties Social Consequences written by Christopher Mele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mele and Miller offer a timely, insightful analysis of the continuing challenges faced by ex-felons upon re-entry into society. Such penalties include a lifetime ban on receiving welfare and food stamps for individuals convicted of drug felonies as well as barriers to employment, child rearing, and housing opportunities. This much-needed work contains pieces by scholars in law, criminology, and sociology, including: Scott Christianson, Michael Lichter, and Daniel Kanstroom.
Download or read book Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Child Welfare Practice Under the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Welfare written by Emilie Stoltzfus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Adoption Incentives program states earn federal bonuses when they increase adoptions of children who are in need of new permanent families. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have earned a part of the $375 million in Adoption Incentive funds that have been awarded since the program was established as part of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Funding authorized for this program has been extended twice since it was established, most recently in 2008, but is currently set to expire on September 30, 2013. Since ASFA's enactment in 1997, the annual number of children leaving foster care for adoption has risen from roughly 30,000 to more than 50,000 and the average length of time it took states to complete the adoption of a child from foster care declined by close to one year (from about four years to less than three). Over the same time period, and in significant measure due to the greater number of children leaving foster care for adoption and at a faster pace, the overall number of children who remain in foster care declined by 29%. Despite these successes, however, the number of children “waiting for adoption” remains more than double the number of children who are adopted during a given year. Under the current Adoption Incentive bonus structure, states earn $4,000 for each adoption of a foster child that is above the number of foster child adoptions finalized by the state in FY2007 and $8,000 for each adoption of an older child (9 years or older) above the number of older child adoptions it finalized in FY2007. If a state has earned an award in either of those categories—or if it improves its adoption rate—it earns $4,000 for each adoption of a special needs child (under age 9) that is above the number of such adoptions it finalized in FY2007. For improving its rate of adoption, a state is eligible for additional incentive funds of $1,000 multiplied by the increased number of adoptions that are calculated to have resulted from the improved adoption rate. However, increases in incentive amounts states earn due to improved adoption rates are only paid to those states if sufficient program appropriations are available after all awards for increases in the number of adoptions have been made. States are permitted to use Adoption Incentive bonuses to support a broad range of child welfare services to children and families. Many states report spending incentive funds on adoption-related child welfare purposes, including post-adoption support services, recruitment of adoptive homes, and training or conferences to improve adoption casework. A smaller number of states report using these funds for adoption assistance payments, improved adoption homes studies, child protection casework, foster care maintenance payments, or other child welfare purposes. Funding for the Adoption Incentives program is provided on a discretionary basis as part of the annual appropriations process. The program is authorized to receive $43 million annually (through FY2013), but in recent years actual appropriations have been around $39 million. Final FY2013 appropriations for the Adoption Incentives program were included in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 at this same level. However, those appropriations are subject to a 5% reduction (under the March 1 sequestration order).
Download or read book The Impact of ASFA on Children and Families of Color written by Child Welfare League of America and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 was intended to increase the safety of children, promote adoption and other permanency options for children, and support fragile families. Although elements of ASFA were viewed as positive, child welfare administrators, practitioners, and researchers expressed concern that ASFA implementation could disproportionately affect children and families of color. To address these concerns, the Child Welfare League of American (CWLA) conducted a forum to examine the impact of the Act on children and families of color and inform the larger national agenda concerned with improving supports and services for this population. This book summarizes the plenary presentations on: (1) the strengths and challenges of families and communities of color; and (2) the Adoption and Safe Families Act intent, major provisions, promises, and concerns. Additional summaries are provided for working group discussions related to front-loading services, kinship care, adoption, and youth-in-care. Among the findings, it was noted that ASFA permanency timelines, its strong focus on legal permanency, and narrow view of "family" were insufficiently flexible and culturally inconsistent for families of color. Recommendations to strengthen supports and services for children and families of color complete the book. A list of conference presenters and CWLA staff as well as contact information is included. (KB)
Download or read book Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Committee Meeting of Senate Women s Issues Children and Family Services Committee written by New Jersey. Legislature. Senate. Women's Issues, Children, and Family Services Committee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book H R 867 the Adoption Promotion Act of 1997 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Protection Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
