Child Welfare Reform

Author : Olivia Ann Golden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0877667594

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Reforming Child Welfare by Olivia Ann Golden Pdf

As the director of the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency, Olivia Golden led reform of a system in federal receivership. Now, in Reforming Child Welfare, she uses her expertise as an administrator, an academic, and an advocate to pinpoint the factors that lead to success. "Writing from the inside," she maintains, "makes it possible to analyze, in retrospect, what we thought we were doing, what it felt like, and what led us to good or bad choices." By sharing her personal story, along with her analysis of the research literature and two other case studies in Alabama and Utah, Golden finds fresh insight on improving outcomes for imperiled children and families.

Author : Meri Kulmala,Maija Jäppinen,Anna Tarasenko,Anna Pivovarova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000193664

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Reforming Child Welfare in the Post-Soviet Space by Meri Kulmala,Maija Jäppinen,Anna Tarasenko,Anna Pivovarova Pdf

This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system. It focuses on the major shift in Russia’s child welfare policy: deinstitutionalisation of the system of children’s homes inherited from the Soviet era and an increase in fostering and adoption. Divided into four sections, this book details both the changing role and function of residential institutions within the Russian child welfare system and the rapidly developing form of alternative care in foster families, as well as work undertaken with birth families. By analysing the consequences of deinstitutionalisation and its effects on children and young people as well as their foster and birth parents, it provides a model for understanding this process across the whole of the post-Soviet space. It will be of interest to academics and students of social work, sociology, child welfare, social policy, political science, and Russian and East European politics more generally.

Author : Duncan Lindsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195136708

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The Welfare of Children by Duncan Lindsey Pdf

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.

Author : Dorothy Badry,H. Monty Montgomery,Daniel Kikulwe,Don Fuchs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : 088977451X

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Transforming Child Welfare by Dorothy Badry,H. Monty Montgomery,Daniel Kikulwe,Don Fuchs Pdf

Transforming Child Welfare tackles the "wicked" problems encountered in the child welfare system by social workers and other professionals, and suggests best practice solutions that professionals can use in their own practices.

Author : Purcell, Carl
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447348771

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The Politics of Children's Services Reform by Purcell, Carl Pdf

Drawing on unique access to prominent policy makers including ministers, senior civil servants, local authority directors, and the leaders of children’s sector NGOs, Purcell re-examines two decades of children’s services reform under both Labour and Conservative-led governments. By closely examining the origins of Labour’s Every Child Matters programme, the Munro Review, and more recent Conservative reforms affecting child and family social workers, the impact of high profile child abuse cases, including Victoria Climbié and Baby P, are reassessed and the party-political drivers of successive waves of reform are revealed.

Author : Simon Black
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820357539

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Social Reproduction and the City by Simon Black Pdf

The transformation of child care after welfare reform in New York City and the struggle against that transformation is a largely untold story. In the decade following welfare reform, despite increases in child care funding, there was little growth in New York’s unionized, center-based child care system and no attempt to make this system more responsive to the needs of working mothers. As the city delivered child care services “on the cheap,” relying on non-union home child care providers, welfare rights organizations, community legal clinics, child care advocates, low-income community groups, activist mothers, and labor unions organized to demand fair solutions to the child care crisis that addressed poor single mothers’ need for quality, affordable child care as well as child care providers’ need for decent work and pay. Social Reproduction and the City tells this story, linking welfare reform to feminist research and activism around the “crisis of care,” social reproduction, and the neoliberal city. At a theoretical level, Simon Black’s history of this era presents a feminist political economy of the urban welfare regime, applying a social reproduction lens to processes of urban neoliberalization and an urban lens to feminist analyses of welfare state restructuring and resistance. Feminist political economy and feminist welfare state scholarship have not focused on the urban as a scale of analysis, and critical approaches to urban neoliberalism often fail to address questions of social reproduction. To address these unexplored areas, Black unpacks the urban as a contested site of welfare state restructuring and examines the escalating crisis in social reproduction. He lays bare the aftermath of the welfare-to-work agenda of the Giuliani administration in New York City on child care and the resistance to policies that deepened race, class, and gender inequities.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105050399000

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Hearing to Examine Child Welfare Reform Proposals by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources Pdf

Author : Sharon Hays
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195176014

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Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays Pdf

This text explores the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives. It also focuses on what welfare reform reveals about work and family life, and its impact on us all.

Author : Leslie T. Foster,Brian Wharf
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774840972

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People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia by Leslie T. Foster,Brian Wharf Pdf

People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia traces the evolution of policies and programs intended to protect children in BC from neglect and abuse. Analyzing this evolution reveals that child protection policy and practice has reflected the priorities of politicians and public servants in power. With few exceptions, efforts to establish effective programs have focused on structural arrangements, staffing responsibilities, and rules to regulate the practice of child welfare workers. Contributors to this book conclude that these attempts have been unsuccessful thus far because they have failed to address the impact of poverty on clients. The need to respect the cultural traditions and values of First Nations clients has also been ignored. Effective services require recognizing and remedying poverty's impact, establishing community control over services, and developing a radically different approach to the day-to-day practice of child welfare workers. People, Politics, and Child Welfare in British Columbia provides a crucial assessment of the state of child welfare in the province. Practitioners, scholars, and students in social work, child and youth care, education, and other human-service professions will find this book particularly important.

Author : Radha Jagannathan,Michael J. Camasso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199721016

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Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage by Radha Jagannathan,Michael J. Camasso Pdf

This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for our society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers. At the center of this conceptual and analytic approach is the contention that social outrage emanating from horrific and often sensationalized cases of child maltreatment plays a major role in CPS decision making and in child outcomes. The ebb and flow of outrage, we believe, invokes three levels of response that are consistent with patterns of the number of child maltreatment reports made to public child welfare agencies, the number of cases screened-in by these CPS agencies, the proportions of alleged cases substantiated as instances of real child abuse or neglect, and the numbers of children placed outside their homes. At the community level, outrage produces amplified surveillance and a posture of "zero-tolerance" while child protection workers, in turn, carry out their duties under a fog of "infinite jeopardy." With outrage as a driving force, child protective services organizations are forced into changes that are disjointed and highly episodic; changes which follow a course identified in the natural sciences as abrupt equilibrium changes. Through such manifestations as child safety legislation, institutional reform litigation of state child protective services agencies, massive retooling of the CPS workforce, the rise of community surveillance groups and moral entrepreneurs, and the exploitation of fatality statistics by media and politicians we find evidence of outrage at work and its power to change social attitudes, worker decisions and organizational culture. In this book, Jungian psychology intersects with the punctuated equilibrium theory to provide a compelling explanation for the decisions made by public CPS agencies to protect children.

Author : Gerald R Adams,Gary Cameron,Nick Coady
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-19
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780889205185

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Moving Toward Positive Systems of Child and Family Welfare by Gerald R Adams,Gary Cameron,Nick Coady Pdf

Faced with rapidly changing social and economic conditions, service professionals, policy developers, and researchers have raised significant concerns about the Canadian child welfare system. This book draws inspiration from experiences with three broad, international child welfare paradigms—child protection, family service, and community healing/caring (First Nations)—to look at how specific practices in other countries, as well as alternative experiments in Canada, might foster positive innovations in the Canadian child welfare approach. Foundational values and purposes, systems design and policy, and organization and management are discussed, as are front-line service delivery, service provider work environments, and the realities of daily living for families. Informed by recent research, the contributors provide clear directions for policy, administration, and service-delivery reforms. Informing policy debates addressing child maltreatment and family welfare, this book will serve as a vital resource for managers, service providers, professionals, and students in the fields of social work, child and youth care, family studies, psychology, and special education.

Author : Douglas Besharov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351520508

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Family and Child Well-being After Welfare Reform by Douglas Besharov Pdf

Since their historic high in 1994, welfare caseloads in the United States have dropped an astounding 59 percent--more than 5 million fewer families receive welfare. Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform, now in paperback, explores how low-income children and their families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. Contributors to the volume include leading social researchers. Can existing surveys and other data be used to measure trends in the area? What key indicators should be tracked? What are the initial trends after welfare reform? What other information or approaches would be helpful? The book covers a broad range of topics: an update on welfare reform (Douglas J. Besharov and Peter Germanis); ongoing major research (Peter H. Rossi); material well-being, such as earnings, benefits, and consumption (Richard Bavier); family versus household (Wendy D. Manning); fatherhood, cohabitation, and marriage (Wade F. Horn); teenage sex, pregnancy, and nonmarital births (Isabel V. Sawhill); child maltreatment and foster care (Richard J. Gelles); homelessness and housing (John C. Weicher); child health and well-being (Lorraine V. Klerman); nutrition, food security, and obesity (Harold S. Beebout); crime, juvenile delinquency, and dysfunctional behavior (Lawrence W. Sherman); drug use (Peter Reuter); mothers' work and child care (Julia B. Isaacs); and the activities of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Don Winstead and Ann McCormick). When welfare reform was first debated, many people feared that it would hurt the poor, especially children. The contributors find little evidence to suggest this has occurred. As time limits and other programmatic requirements take hold, more information will be needed to assess the condition of low-income families after welfare reform. This informative volume establishes a baseline for that assessment.

Author : Rachel A. Gordon,Herbert J. Walberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441992741

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Changing Welfare by Rachel A. Gordon,Herbert J. Walberg Pdf

This book is concerned with the sweeping changes that took place in public assistance programs at the end of the 20th century and the way in which the original and reformed versions of these programs relate to the well-being of children and their families. It is a valuable reference for practitioners and policymakers who are concerned with children and child-related issues, psychologists, sociologists, social workers, social program administrators, and students in psychology, social work, sociology, political science, and education.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : UOM:39015041360952

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Child Welfare in the Context of Welfare "reform" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bob Lonne,Nigel Parton,Jane Thomson,Maria Harries
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134109241

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Reforming Child Protection by Bob Lonne,Nigel Parton,Jane Thomson,Maria Harries Pdf

Child protection is one of the most high profile and challenging areas of social work, as well as one where children’s lives and family life are seen to be at stake. Vital as child protection work is, this book argues that there is a pressing need for change in the understanding and consequent organization of child protection in many English speaking nations. Grounded in the recent and contemporary literature, research and scholarly inquiry, this book capitalises on the experiences and voices of children, young people, families and workers who are the most significant stakeholders in child protection. It will be an essential read for those who work, research, teach or study in the area.