Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission. Advisory Committee on Services to Children and Youth
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Children and Youth Services Delivery System in Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission. Advisory Committee on Services to Children and Youth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Pennsylvania's Children and Youth System
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Budget and Finance Committee
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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Pennsylvania's Mental Health System for Children and Youth
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Legislative Budget and Finance Committee
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Category : Child mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Child mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
No Way to Treat a Child
Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher: Bombardier Books
ISBN: 1642936588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Publisher: Bombardier Books
ISBN: 1642936588
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Pennsylvania Children, Youth and Families Research and Information Systems
Author: Richard J. Fiene
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages :
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Children Receiving Welfare Service in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Children Youth and Families Research and Information System
Author: Richard Fiene
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
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Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Out of Harm's Way
Author: Richard Gelles
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190618027
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements. - Deciding who is the client. Child welfare systems attempt to balance the needs of the child and those of the parents, often failing both. Clearly answering this question is the most important, yet unaddressed, issue facing the child welfare system. - Decisions. The key task for a caseworker is not to provide services but to make decisions regarding child abuse and neglect, case goals, and placement; however, practitioners have only the crudest tools at their disposal when making what are literally life and death decisions. - The Perverse Incentive. Billions of dollars are spent each year to place and maintain children in out-of-home care. Foster care is meant to be short-term, yet the existing federal funding serves as a perverse incentive to keep children in out-of-home placements. - Aging out. More than 20,000 youth age out of the foster care system each year, and yet what the system calls "emancipation" could more accurately be viewed as child neglect. After having spent months, years, or longer moving from placement to placement, aging-out youth are suddenly thrust into homelessness, unemployment, welfare, and oppressive disadvantage. The chapters in this book offer a blueprint for reform that eschews the tired cycle of a tragedy followed by outrage and calls for more money, staff, training, and lawsuits that provide, at best, fleeting relief as a new complacency slowly sets in until the cycle repeats. If we want, instead, to try something else, the changes that Gelles outlines in this book are affordable, scalable, and proven.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190618027
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four critical aspects of the system and presents a specific change in each that would lead to lasting improvements. - Deciding who is the client. Child welfare systems attempt to balance the needs of the child and those of the parents, often failing both. Clearly answering this question is the most important, yet unaddressed, issue facing the child welfare system. - Decisions. The key task for a caseworker is not to provide services but to make decisions regarding child abuse and neglect, case goals, and placement; however, practitioners have only the crudest tools at their disposal when making what are literally life and death decisions. - The Perverse Incentive. Billions of dollars are spent each year to place and maintain children in out-of-home care. Foster care is meant to be short-term, yet the existing federal funding serves as a perverse incentive to keep children in out-of-home placements. - Aging out. More than 20,000 youth age out of the foster care system each year, and yet what the system calls "emancipation" could more accurately be viewed as child neglect. After having spent months, years, or longer moving from placement to placement, aging-out youth are suddenly thrust into homelessness, unemployment, welfare, and oppressive disadvantage. The chapters in this book offer a blueprint for reform that eschews the tired cycle of a tragedy followed by outrage and calls for more money, staff, training, and lawsuits that provide, at best, fleeting relief as a new complacency slowly sets in until the cycle repeats. If we want, instead, to try something else, the changes that Gelles outlines in this book are affordable, scalable, and proven.
The Children and Youth Services Delivery System in Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Joint State Government Commission
Publisher:
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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Publisher:
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Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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New Directions: Public Child Welfare in Pennsylvania
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Government Consulting Service
Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Publisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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