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Download full textChelsea Prax – American Educator, 2025
Mandatory reporting is the first step in a troubling and common cascade: Poverty, reframed as "neglect," precipitates far too many reports, with roughly one-third of children enduring a CPS investigation. Investigated families are monitored and coerced to change their parenting (usually without support for alleviating their poverty),…
Descriptors: Poverty, At Risk Persons, Family Needs, Child Welfare
Direct linkGitlow, Elissa; Kugley, Shannon; Shapiro, Sam; Kakuyama-Villaber, Reiko; Jacobsen, Helen; Chor, Brian; Dworsky, Amy – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2022
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) contracted with three child welfare providers that operate transitional living (TLP) or independent living (ILO) programs (or both) to implement LifeSet, an intensive case management program developed by Youth Villages, for youth in care who are 17.5 to 21 years old. LifeSet helps…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Transitional Programs, Independent Living, Program Implementation
Van Drunen, Molly; Packard Tucker, L.; Dworsky, A. – Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, 2022
This brief describes the relationship between placement stability and youth engagement in the Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP), a program developed and implemented by the Alameda County Social Services Agency (SSA) for 14- to 20-year-olds in foster care who have multiple risk factors for experiencing homelessness. The authors used program data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Young Adults, At Risk Persons, Foster Care
Clark, James J.; Yegidis, Bonnie L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
David Stoesz offers a sweeping critique of the Children's Bureau and social work education by claiming the existence of a "child welfare cartel." He also attacks the quality of social work education and research, which he claims has poorly invested government funding and helped create the unmitigated failures of the American child…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Social Work, Caseworkers, Caseworker Approach
Timonen-Kallio, Eeva; Hämäläinen, Juha; Laukkanen, Eila – Child Care in Practice, 2017
Many children taken into care tend to be in need of psychiatric treatment as well as child protection services, and thus the professional expertise of both systems must be coordinated in their care. However, it is widely known across Europe that collaboration between child protection services and mental health services is not working well and the…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Residential Care, Child Care, Child Safety
Clemens, Elysia V.; Sheesley, Alison P. – Online Submission, 2019
Fostering Opportunities is an innovative student engagement program for middle school and high school students who have experienced foster care. The goal of the program is to help youth who have experienced foster care be successful in school and ultimately earn a high school credential. Fostering Opportunities was developed because of the clear…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Foster Care, Graduation Rate
Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; Bos, Karen; Bunkers, Kelley McCreery; Dobrova-Krol, Natasha A.; Engle, Patrice L.; Fox, Nathan A.; Gamer, Gary N.; Goldman, Philip; Groark, Christina J.; Greenberg, Aaron; Grotevant, Harold D.; Groza, Victor K.; Gunnar, Megan R.; Johnson, Dana E.; Juffer, Femmie; Kreppner, Jana M.; Le Mare, Lucy; McCall, Robert B.; Muhamedrahimov, Rifkat J.; Nelson, Charles A., III; Palacios, Jesus; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund J. S.; Steele, Howard; Steele, Miriam; Tieman, Wendy; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Vorria, Panayiota; Zeanah, Charles H. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2011
This monograph reviews literature pertaining to children without permanent parents. Chapters review (1) the development of children while institutional residents; (2) the development of postinstitutionalized children transitioned to family environments (i.e., adoption); the effects of institutionalization on (3) attachment behaviors, (4) physical…
Descriptors: Evidence, Childrens Rights, Child Welfare, Young Children
Brown, Kay; Bascetta, Cynthia A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2009
Providing health care services for foster children, who frequently have significant health care needs, can be challenging. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) oversees foster care, but state child welfare agencies are responsible for ensuring that these children receive health care services, which are often financed by Medicaid. In…
Descriptors: Health Services, Health Needs, State Officials, Family Programs
Peer reviewedMaluccio, Anthony N.; Fein, Edith – Child Welfare, 1983
Proposes a comprehensive definition of permanency planning and delineates its major components. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare, Definitions, Delivery Systems
Crumbley, Joseph – 1999
Addressed to practitioners working with adoptive families, this book examines the question: How do professionals help children and families make transracial adoptions and foster care placements work? The book describes specific ways to ensure that children develop positive racial and cultural identities and how professionals can better serve…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare
Peer reviewedCimmarusti, Rocco A. – Child Welfare, 1992
Describes the principal features of a multisystems approach to family preservation that involves placement prevention and permanency planning. The approach is being taught to family preservation workers in Illinois. Discussion concerns the approach's theoretical premises, tasks, significant assessment areas, and ways of understanding the approach.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare, Curriculum Guides
Peer reviewedHunner, Robert J. – Children Today, 1986
Describes development of guidelines to expand understanding of and compliance with both the reasonable efforts requirement of the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act 1980 (P.L. 96-272) and active efforts requirement of the Indian Child Welfare Act 1978 (P.L. 95-608) to help keep Indian families together. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: American Indians, Caseworker Approach, Child Abuse, Child Welfare
Peer reviewedMills, Crystal S.; Ivery, Cassandra – Child Welfare, 1990
Describes a caseload weighting system used by a voluntary child welfare agency which successfully increased caseworker-client contact and improved the quality of the delivery of child and family services. (BB)
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Family Programs
Leeds, Stephen J. – 1984
This report presents an evaluation of the Intensive Services Project in Lincoln and McCook, Nebraska, which was designed to demonstrate that caseworkers with smaller child protective caseloads could offer more effective home-based services. The background of the project is described focusing on staffing and service setting. Service principles and…
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Family Problems
Peer reviewedvan Nijnatten, Carol – Child Welfare, 1988
Describes the roles of judges and social workers in Dutch child welfare. Briefly outlines training efforts designed to help social workers give their assessments greater structure, case-planning scope, and clarity. (BB)
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare, Court Judges, Court Role
