Download or read book LaShawn Child Welfare Reform Initiative written by District of Columbia. Commission on Social Services and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Welfare Reform Initiative written by North Dakota. Governor's Office and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hearing to Examine Child Welfare Reform Proposals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Welfare Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Oversight and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hearing examined whether federal child welfare and foster care programs could be streamlined to better help children, focusing on the efficacy of section 427 of the 1980 Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, which requires states to report on compliance with 18 separate child protection strategies. Testimony regarding the streamlining or elimination of section 427 was heard from: (1) Assistant Secretary Mary Jo Bane, Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; (2) New Jersey Department of Human Services; (3) National Fatherhood Initiative; (4) Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services; (5) Cook County Office of Public Guardian; (6) Karen Aileen Howze, an adoptive parent; (7) American Civil Liberties Union; (8) Child Welfare League of America; (9) Children's Rights Council; (10) Brigitte Berger, a sociology professor; (11) Maryland Citizen Foster Care Review Board; and (12) National Association of Foster Care Reviewers. Written submissions were also provided by other interested individuals and organizations. (MDM)
Download or read book We Know Better Than We Do written by Donald N. Duquette and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Welfare Reform written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluability Assessment of the Annie E Casey Foundation Child Welfare Reform Initiative written by Research Triangle Institute and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Whose Best Interest written by Susan Tiffin and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1982-04-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Welfare of Children written by Duncan Lindsey and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a critical look at the child welfare system, finding that the emphasis on abuse has produced a system that serves largely as a last resort for only the worst and most dramatic cases in child welfare. This book is a blueprint for the comprehensive reform of the child welfare system.
Download or read book Child Welfare Reform Initiatives Issues and Recommendations written by Association of Native Child and Family Service Agencies of Ontario and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Out of Harm s Way written by Richard Gelles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book When Child Welfare Works written by Annie E. Casey Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The good news is that a focus on early intervention and permanence has contributed to a decrease in the numbers of kids in foster care. The bad news is that an arcane federal financing structure is complicating the prospects for further progress. Comprehensive child welfare financing reform is needed now. Casey, along with the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, has developed a policy framework with targeted recommendations for child welfare reform that Congress has traditionally embraced with bipartisan support."--Publisher website.
Download or read book Welfare Reform and Family and Child Well being written by M. Anne Powell and published by California State Library Foundation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meeting the Challenges of Welfare Reform written by Jack Tweedie and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of federal legislation aimed at welfare reform, states have been transforming welfare in new ways. Critical questions remain, however, and policymakers must continue to develop new ideas and implement programs from other states. This book contributes to the learning process among states by sharing program innovations and analyses to help states realize their goals for a new welfare that helps recipients find and keep jobs that will enable them to support their families without welfare. The first section of the guide provides an overview of meeting the challenges of welfare reform. The second section, "Finding and Creating Jobs for Welfare Recipients," addresses job development, microenterprise programs, targeted state employment, and community service. The third section, "Preparing Recipients for Work," addresses assessment, support services, job readiness, education, vocational training, and work experiences. The fourth section, "Child Care," examines the issues of eligibility, copayment, and reimbursement rates and mechanisms. The fifth section, "Getting to Work: Providing Transportation in a Work-Based System," addresses the transportation dilemma, transit alternatives, and life after welfare. The sixth section, "Ensuring the Well-Being of Children Under Welfare Reform," addresses tracking families that leave welfare, safety net programs, and effects on the child welfare system. The seventh section, "Overseeing Welfare Reform: Accountability, Financing and Devolution," addresses block grants and state spending. (Contains 43 notes.) (SD)
Download or read book The Impact of Welfare Reform on Child Welfare Financing written by Rob Geen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Challenges and Opportunities Posed by the Reform Era written by Mark E. Courtney and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kids Raised by the Government written by Ira M. Schwartz and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-01-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The child welfare system is broken, and no one seems to know how to fix it. Except for the increasing number of scandals in the news, the public knows little about the system, which is hidden from public scrutiny, allegedly to protect children. Meanwhile, the number of children being propelled into the welfare system is increasing at an alarming rate, and more than 25 state child welfare systems are being sued in federal court for abusive and neglectful practices. A careful examination of the child welfare system is long overdue. This book explores the sources of the problems in the system, places those problems in their historical, legal, and policy perspectives, and explores the implications of policies for state and national levels. The book opens with an overview of the child welfare system and the problems inherent in it. Schwartz and Fishman then analyze attempts to mend the system and review the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act—the foundation for contemporary child welfare policy. The following chapters look at the practice of adoption, the potential movement between child welfare and delinquency, and the problems of residential care. The book concludes with the implications of child welfare policy for the state and national levels and recommends ways to reform the system.
