Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422311745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Child Welfare: Improving Social Serviced Program, Training, & Technical Assistance Information Would Help Address Long-Standing Service-Level & Workforce Challenges
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422311745
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Elder Justice
Author: Kay E. BrownPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 143798259X
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Each day, news reports cite instances of older adults across the U.S. being abused, denied needed care, or financially exploited, often by those they depend on. This report contains info. on: (1) existing estimates of the extent of elder abuse and their quality; (2) factors associated with elder abuse and its impact on victims; (3) characteristics and challenges of state Adult Protective Services (APS) responsible for addressing elder abuse; and (4) federal support and leadership in this area. The auditor visited six states and surveyed state APS programs; reviewed federal laws and regulations; and interviewed federal officials, researchers, and elder abuse experts. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Justice for All
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused elderly
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage
Author: Radha JagannathanPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199721017
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
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.
Decision-Making and Judgment in Child Welfare and Protection
Author: John D. FlukePublisher:
ISBN: 0190059532
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Professionals in child welfare and protection are often required to make decisions--fraught with many difficulties and shortcomings--that have crucial implications for children and families. There are many indications that these decisions are frequently unreliable and involve unavoidable errors in judgement due to the uncertainties. This book applies much-needed insights gleaned from the fields of business and behavioral economics to child welfare practice, bridging a critical gap in the child welfare and protection research agenda.
Hearing on the Implementation of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Prescription Psychotropic Drug Use Among Children in Foster Care
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Challenges Facing the Child Welfare System
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Kentucky's Foster Care System is Improving, But Challenges Remain
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Glossary -- ch. 1. An overview of foster care -- ch. 2. Legal framework and oversight of foster care -- ch. 3. Financing foster care in Kentucky -- ch. 4. Workforce, organizational, and systemic issues in foster care -- ch. 5. The practice of foster care -- Works cited -- Appendix A-Q.
CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description