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Defining Active and Reasonable Efforts: Reasonable Efforts to Prevent Placement and Preserve Families.
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Hunner, 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
A Strategy for Workload Management in Child Protective Practice.
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Mills, 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
Social Workers' Attitudes toward Parents of Children in Child Protective Services: Evaluation of a Family-Focused Casework Training Program
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Alpert, Lily T.; Britner, Preston A. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2005
Recent concerns regarding permanence for foster children have inspired child welfare agencies to re-focus more of their efforts on biological parents as permanent resources for children in care. The social work field has responded to this situation with family-focused training for frontline staff; one such curriculum is the Family Development…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Parents, Welfare Services
Reactions by Native American Parents to Child Protection Agencies: Cultural and Community Factors.
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Horejsi, Charles; And Others – Child Welfare, 1992
Explains characteristics and behaviors of Native American parents who react to child protection services with extreme aggressiveness, passivity, or avoidance. Discusses appropriate behaviors for social workers to use with such parents. (BG)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, American Indian Culture, American Indian Reservations, Boarding Schools
The Tender Years: Toward Developmentally Sensitive Child Welfare Services for Very Young Children. Child Welfare Series.
Berrick, Jill Duerr; Needell, Barbara; Barth, Richard P.; Jonson-Reid, Melissa – 1998
Although the United States has seen a record influx of infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children into the foster care system in the past decade, there has not been an accompanying shift in policy or practice to attend to the developmental issues these younger children bring to child welfare. This textbook addresses the spectrum of child…
Descriptors: Adoption, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach, Child Abuse
Issues in Foster Care: Policy, Practice and Research.
Kelly, Greg, Ed.; Gilligan, Robbie, Ed. – 2000
This book assesses the current state of foster care in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the pressures which have shaped it, and the challenges it faces. Emphasizing the importance of fostering within a coherent child care policy, the contributors examine the latest research into key areas of foster care, and explore how practice can be improved.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Caseworker Approach, Change Strategies
The Indian Child Welfare Act: Unto the Seventh Generation. Conference Proceedings (Los Angeles, California, January 15-17, 1992). National Conference Proceedings Series.
Johnson, Troy R., Ed. – 1993
This proceedings contains edited transcripts of speeches and workshops given at a conference on the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), held at UCLA in January 1992. Workshop titles were: fetal alcohol syndrome; responding to the family in Indian child welfare; joint in-service training for management of Indian Child Welfare Act cases; domestic…
Descriptors: Adoption, Alcohol Abuse, American Indians, Caseworker Approach