Author: Joan M. AbbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Raising Michigan's Children
Author: Joan M. AbbeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families Through Effective Interventions
Author: Colette McAuleyPublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1843101165
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This reader compares up-to-date policy and research evidence from the UK and USA on the effectiveness of core child welfare interventions. The text shows how knowledge of effective interventions can be used to improve assessment of needs, and planning and reviewing services to children and their families.
From Child Welfare to Child Well-Being
Author: Sheila KamermanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048133777
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
This chapter provides a brief overview of the book highlighting the modest progress from child welfare to child well-being re?ected in these chapters, and the parallel movement in Kahn’s career and research, as his scholarship developed over the years. It then moves to explore the relationship between two overarching themes, child and family policy stressing a universal approach to children and social prot- tion stressing a more targeted approach to disadvantaged and vulnerable individuals including children and the complementarity of these strategies. Introduction To a large extent Alfred J. Kahn was at the forefront of the developments in the ?eld of child welfare services (protective services, foster care, adoption, and family preservationandsupport). Overtimehisscholarshipmovedtoafocusonthebroader policy domain of child and family policy and the outcomes for child wellbeing. His work, as is true for this volume, progressed from a focus on poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable children to a focus on all children. He was convinced that children, by de?nition, are a vulnerable population group and that targeting all children, empl- ing a universal policy as a strategy would do more for poor children than a narrowly focused policy targeted on poor children alone, As we ?rst argued more than three decades ago (Not for the Poor Alone; “Universalism and Income Testing in Family Policy”), one could target the most disadvantaged within a universal framework, and this would lead to more successful results than targeting only the poor.
Michigan's Children in Our Care
Author: David Stuart CramptonPublisher:
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Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Enhancing the Well-being of Children and Families through Effective Interventions
Author: Wendy RosePublisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1846424771
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Services for families and children are rightfully the focus of intense scrutiny and debate, and there is a clear need to establish a knowledge of which services work well. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of research evidence from the UK and USA on the effectiveness of selected child welfare interventions. It addresses the challenges of measuring effectiveness in child welfare and explains the policy context for child welfare service delivery. Leading international contributors summarize the evidence of effectiveness in each core area, and consider the impact on children's development, parenting capacity and the wider community. Critically, the book also draws out the implications of the evidence for policy, practice and service delivery as well as for future research. This book is essential reading for policy makers, practitioners and commissioners of services in child welfare as well as students and researchers.
Foster Care Matters
Author: Elizabeth HarlowPublisher:
ISBN: 9781861771179
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Resulting from collaboration between leading academics and the national charity the Fostering Network, this book captures the debates on the provision of foster care in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This collection of papers offers critical comment on current governmental policy, reports on empirical research, and offers theoretical reflections on practice. The context for the policy and the debates is provided by a narrative that traces the origins of child care from the Elizabethan Poor Law, and asks questions about the provision of care in the future. Key themes covered in the chapters: Politics and policy - the ideological foundations of recent initiatives and the implications for the care of children and young people Service delivery - public and private approaches to provision and the professionalization of foster care Service users - the needs of children and young people and the barriers to their social inclusion on leaving care Diversity, identities and perspectives - kinship care, sexualities and the foster carer's perspective
Improving Programs Designed to Protect At-risk Youth
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adoption
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Systems of Care : Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health 2001 Series: Promising practices in early childhood mental health
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Investing in Children
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Hearings were conducted in Newark (New Jersey), Los Angeles (California), Detroit (Michigan), and Atlanta (Georgia) to elicit testimony concerning public investment in education and social services for children and their families. At each of the four hearings, an opening statement by Senator Tom Harkin was followed by statements from individuals interested in children's education and services. In the four hearings, oral and written testimony concerning the need to improve and better fund education and social services for children and their families was presented by nearly 50 senators, representatives, mayors, educators, health care providers, religious leaders, community leaders, and concerned individuals. (MDM)
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