Public Child Welfare

Author : Leslie T. Foster,Brian Wharf
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123294113

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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 : Terry Shaw,Bethany R. Lee,Jill L. Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781351585811

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Administrative Data and Child Welfare Research by Terry Shaw,Bethany R. Lee,Jill L. Farrell Pdf

Every day, social service agencies collect millions of pieces of data about the children and families they serve. Agencies depend on this data to inform decision-making by personnel throughout the organization and to provide meaningful research and evaluation on program effectiveness and outcomes. As capacity for collecting and utilizing data has increased so has the recognition that this data can and should be used more broadly. Further, it should include not just single-system data, but data across different human service agencies. Administrative/big data systems can be powerful tools in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of public child welfare services. Understanding, harnessing, and using big data holds tremendous promise in creating transformative change in the social services. Data analytics and data mining can lead to a better understanding of what services work for specific populations (targeting and predictive modelling), provide a more nuanced understanding of service outcomes for the workforce and major stakeholders (transparency), and facilitate collaboration across existing service delivery silos to reduce duplication of services and enhance consumer access to services (efficiency). This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Author : National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309285155

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New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research by National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Committee on Law and Justice,Board on Children, Youth, and Families,Committee on Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade: Phase II Pdf

Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-term human and fiscal consequences of child abuse and neglect are not relegated to the victims themselves -- they also impact their families, future relationships, and society. In 1993, the National Research Council (NRC) issued the report, Under-standing Child Abuse and Neglect, which provided an overview of the research on child abuse and neglect. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research updates the 1993 report and provides new recommendations to respond to this public health challenge. According to this report, while there has been great progress in child abuse and neglect research, a coordinated, national research infrastructure with high-level federal support needs to be established and implemented immediately. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research recommends an actionable framework to guide and support future child abuse and neglect research. This report calls for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to child abuse and neglect research that examines factors related to both children and adults across physical, mental, and behavioral health domains--including those in child welfare, economic support, criminal justice, education, and health care systems--and assesses the needs of a variety of subpopulations. It should also clarify the causal pathways related to child abuse and neglect and, more importantly, assess efforts to interrupt these pathways. New Directions in Child Abuse and Neglect Research identifies four areas to look to in developing a coordinated research enterprise: a national strategic plan, a national surveillance system, a new generation of researchers, and changes in the federal and state programmatic and policy response.

Author : Eileen D. Gambrill,Theodore J. Stein
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009199709

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Controversial Issues in Child Welfare by Eileen D. Gambrill,Theodore J. Stein Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : MINN:30000010572034

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Bureau Publication by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson
Publisher : Fernwood Books Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1552665569

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Failure to Protect by Susan Strega,Julia Krane,Rosemary Carlton,Simon Lapierre,Cathy Richardson Pdf

Failure-to-protect policies and practices are intended to better ensure the safety and protection of children. But as this book demonstrates, these policies actually increase danger for children and for their mothers. While failure to protect is not always encoded in policy documents, practices that engage mothers and hold them responsible for violence in the home, while excusing or ignoring the male offender, are common. Moreover, these actions most often play out on the shoulders of marginalized and already oppressed women and, in a cruel twist, place blame on mothers because they are unable to protect their children from factors beyond their control, such as poverty, racism, intimate partner violence and inadequate housing. In this book, writers from Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and Australia explain how the concept of failure to protect emerged and how it differentially impacts child welfare clients by virtue of their gender, race and class positions. Chapters dedicated to child sexual abuse and intimate partner abuse, for example, illustrate just how ineffective failure-to-protect policies are at protecting both women and children. Beyond a critique of child protection systems, the book proposes innovative and effective alternatives to policies and practices informed by failure to protect. This edited collection compels us to think critically about knowledge that is taken for granted and opens up possibilities for practices that are not only grounded in social justice but fulfill the mandate of child welfare to effectively protect children."

Author : Kelly Gallagher-Mackay
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442650640

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Succeeding Together? by Kelly Gallagher-Mackay Pdf

Succeeding Together? is an institutional ethnography that analyses front-line accounts from mothers, teachers, and child welfare workers to explore the educational issues facing abused and neglected children outside of foster care.

Author : Katherine Covell,R. Brian Howe
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780889208568

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The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada by Katherine Covell,R. Brian Howe Pdf

Canada signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child over a decade ago, yet there is still a lack of awareness about and provision for children’s rights. What are Canada’s obligations to children? How has Canada fallen short? Why is it so important to the future of Canadian society that children’s rights be met? Prompted by the gap between the promise of children’s rights and the reality of their continuing denial, Katherine Covell and R. Brian Howe call for changes to existing laws, policies and practices. Using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as their framework, the authors examine the continuing problems of child poverty, child care, child protection, youth justice and the suppression of children’s voices. They challenge us to move from seeing children as parental property to seeing children as independent bearers of rights. In The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada, Canada’s obligations and the rights of children are examined from the perspectives of research and development in the fields of developmental psychology, developmental neuroscience, law and family policy. This timely and accessible book will be of interest to academics, policy-makers and anyone who cares about children and about taking children’s rights seriously.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : IND:30000089501823

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Trends and Developments in Public Child Welfare Services by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jill Duerr Berrick,Erika Altobelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190678142

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The Impossible Imperative by Jill Duerr Berrick,Erika Altobelli Pdf

The Impossible Imperative brings to life the daily efforts of child welfare professionals working on behalf of vulnerable children and families. Stories that highlight the work, written by child welfare staff on the front lines, speak to the competing principles that shape everyday decisions. The book shows that, rather than being a simple task of protecting children, the field of child welfare is shaped by a series of competing ideas. The text features eight principles that undergird child protection practice, all of which are typically in conflict with others. These principles guide practice and direct the course of policymaking, but when liberated from their aspirational context and placed in the real world, they are fraught with contradiction. The Impossible Imperative is designed to inspire a lively debate about the fundamental nature of child welfare and about the principles that serve as the foundation for the work. It can be used as a teaching tool for aspiring professionals and as motivation to those looking to social work to make a difference in the world.

Author : Radha Jagannathan,Michael J. Camasso
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Duncan Lindsey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Child welfare workers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105219352015

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Personnel in Public Child Welfare Programs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Seth Low
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Child welfare
ISBN : STANFORD:36105219352007

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Staff in Public Child Welfare Programs by Seth Low Pdf

Author : United States. Children's Bureau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Child welfare workers
ISBN : MINN:31951D03530925Y

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Educational Leave in Public Child Welfare Programs by United States. Children's Bureau Pdf