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More information is needed for child welfare agencies to understand service utilization across systems and identify ways to better meet the complex needs of children in foster care.
This chapter summarizes results of a study of high service use, or “superutilization,” among children in foster care. The study linked administrative data from child welfare, Medicaid, and other services for two sites. After defining superutilization, latent class analysis was used to identify types of superutilization and predictive analytics were used to identify characteristics at…
This chapter in the book "Engaging Fathers in Child Welfare and Foster Care Settings: Promoting Paternal Contributions to the Safety, Permanency, and Well-being of Children and Families" explores research on father engagement in child welfare services in the U.S., including studies on engagement activities, associations with child welfare outcomes, and barriers to engagement with the aim of assisting social workers and child welfare caseworkers in more fully engaging fathers.
Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster care agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of the U.S. foster care system.
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Child Welfare: Preparing Social Workers for Practice in the Field is a comprehensive text for child welfare courses taught from a social work perspective. This textbook provides a single source for all material necessary for a contextual child welfare course.
As well as combining history, theory, and practice, the authors integrate different practice perspectives to teach social workers how to engage children and families at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Covering both broad issues, such as child welfare, child maltreatment, and…
Introduction
This volume examines existing research documenting racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare systems, the underlying factors that contribute to these phenomena and the harms that result at both the individual and community levels. It reviews multiple forms of interventions designed to prevent and reduce disproportionality, particularly in states and jurisdictions that have seen meaningful change. With contributions from authorities and leaders in the field, this volume serves as the authoritative volume on the complex issue of child maltreatment and child…
Child Welfare and Child Protection: An Introduction prepares future child welfare professionals to tackle the complex and challenging work associated with responding to child maltreatment. Developed by a former child protection professional and a social work scholar, this book draws upon current research and features cases that simulate those child welfare professionals are likely to encounter in the field.
After an historical examination of the evolution of child protection in the United States, the book focuses on understanding the causes of child maltreatment and risk…
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This chapter will help the reader to understand the design and outcomes of the foster care system in the USA. The first half explores the historical roots and modern structure of the foster care system, beginning with legal efforts to keep children safe in the early 1600s to the creation of the current form through the enactment of Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) of 1974. It next examines the children placed in foster care, placement options, and the outcomes for these children, with a deeper dive into educational outcomes. The second half describes federal…
This chapter from Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education focuses on the transition point when youth begin to age out of care and may move into postsecondary education. Specifically, we look at the services youth received (in or out of care) as well as outcomes with respect to employment, financial assistance, and education. We also provide a partial picture in this chapter of who goes to college and, among those who go, where they go nationally. We draw on three datasets to illustrate the social, personal, and economic challenges faced by former foster youth (FFY) in…
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This chapter from the book Re-Visioning Public Health Approaches for Protecting Children critiques historical and contemporary child protection approaches that are viewed as replicating the colonialist practices of child removal and destruction of families/parenting and communities. Using Australia and Canada as examples, it focuses upon three different sources of the disadvantage and distress that Indigenous communities typically experience: the impacts of Colonisation; intergenerational trauma; and the ongoing social, economic, legal and…
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This chapter reviews demographic research focusing on the adoption of children. Included are the following topics: the construction of adoption and kinship structures; global adoption trends and comparisons; and global developments in GLBT adoptions. Summarized are historical changes in adoption generally and adoption trends following The Hague Convention of 29 May 1993 on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption. Discussed are data available for demographic analysis, Hague Convention Statistics, and the limitations of international…