Child Welfare: History and Policy

Paddock, Christina; Waters-Roman, Debra; Borja, Jessica

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.530

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“…Child removal to protect children from harmful parental care can be traced back to nineteenth century child rescue societies [1]. These professional societies had quasi legal authority to remove children from dangerous homes and place them into foster or residential care.…”

Section: A Brief History Of Separating Children From Their Parentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Alternatives to Foster Care

Crittenden,

Farnfield,

Spieker

et al. 2024

Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the 21st Century [Working Title]

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It is unequivocally clear that separating children from parents through foster care is harmful. We offer several safe alternatives to foster care, including new assessment tools focusing on family strengths and parents’ readiness to learn and six interventions tailored to local needs. These alternatives keep children with their parents while under child protection supervision. All cost substantially less than foster care. The alternatives had several characteristics in common. Child needs, especially safety, were met. Parents worked with professionals in structuring new services, resulting in co-created bespoke services with a wide buy-in in each community. Using the new tools, the alternatives were assessed for strengths and parental readiness before intervening so that success was promoted. The best services combined individual learning and group activities, especially activities that involved exercise, outdoor green-time, and social engagement. They also offered 24/7 availability and affiliated with a university to provide better program design and evidence of outcomes. We discuss the impediments to accepting alternatives to foster care, and call for policy makers, judges, supervisors, and managers, as well as case workers, to reduce the use of foster care by using safe alternatives that strengthen families.

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Section: A Brief History Of Separating Children From Their Parentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the early 1970's one of us (Crittenden) ran parent groups for mothers under child protection supervision [1]. The groups were primarily educational, using home visits and weekly group viewing of their own mother-child videos, taken just prior to the meeting.…”

Section: Improving Parent Competency and Parent-child Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alternatives to Foster Care

Crittenden,

Farnfield,

Spieker

et al. 2024

Mental Health of Children and Adolescents in the 21st Century [Working Title]

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“…In the 1930s, the Children's Bureau sought to motivate states to use federal child welfare funds. These funds, established under Title V, the Child Welfare Services Program, of the Social Security Act of 1935 provided for state child welfare workers to take educational leaves of absence in order to pursue social work degrees (Courtney, 2008;Zlotnik, 2002). Additional funding for child welfare field placements and some stipends were made available federally to states under the Title IV B Section 426 Program as well as through Section 707 of the Social Security amendments established in 1967 (Zlotnik, 2002).…”

Section: Early Use Of Federal and Title Iv-e Funding For Child Welfarmentioning

confidence: 99%

North Carolina's Child Welfare Education Collaborative (NCCWEC): One State's Long-Term Commitment Toward an Improved Workforce

Reed-Ashcraft

Westbrook

Williams

2012

Journal of Public Child Welfare

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One state's Title IV-E child welfare social work education collaborative is delineated. This multi-year collaborative between public universities and the state's child welfare system has resulted in funding and field placements for 725 BSW and MSW students in 74 of the state's 100 counties. Further, 589 collaborative graduates have been hired in public child welfare. In addition, beneficial relationships among university personnel, local and state child welfare staff and administrators, and state legislators have enabled this collaborative to continue during difficult economic times. Finally, current challenges, lessons learned, and recommendations for future child welfare social work education initiatives are examined.KEYWORDS Title IV-E funding, public child welfare, child welfare education and training, university and state child welfare partnerships

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