Journal articles: 'Child welfare agencies'

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Rai, Gauri S. "Complexity and Coordination in Child Welfare Agencies." Administration in Social Work 18, no. 1 (September 20, 1994): 87–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j147v18n01_05.

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Fuchs, Don M. "Integrated Information Systems for Child Welfare Agencies." Computers in Human Services 4, no. 3-4 (August 11, 1989): 191–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j407v04n03_05.

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Potter, Cathryn C., Robin Leake, Laricia Longworth-Reed, Inna Altschul, and Shauna Rienks. "Measuring organizational health in child welfare agencies." Children and Youth Services Review 61 (February 2016): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.11.002.

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Ehrle, Jennifer, Cynthia Andrews Scarcella, and Robert Geen. "Teaming up: collaboration between welfare and child welfare agencies since welfare reform." Children and Youth Services Review 26, no. 3 (March 2004): 265–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.01.001.

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Rome, Sunny Harris. "The Child Welfare Choice: An Analysis of Social Work Students' Career Plans." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 3, no. 1 (October 1, 1997): 31–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/1084-7219.3.1.31.

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Child welfare is a field of practice replete with opportunities that are well-suited to entry-level social workers, yet many child welfare agencies remain hampered by staff shortages and high turnover rates. As recently enacted welfare restrictions are implemented, child welfare agencies can expect to face even greater challenges —ones that make the recruitment and hiring of qualified staff an even more urgent priority. This article presents the results of a large-scale, empirical study designed to identify what makes BSW and MSW students interested, or disinterested, in pursuing employment in child welfare agencies, and what kinds of incentives they believe might motivate them to seek child welfare work. Recommendations are offered for social work programs, child welfare agencies, state and local governments, Congress and the Administration, and advocates for children.

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O’Neill, Marissa, and Debbie L. Gonzalez. "Tribal and Non-tribal Agencies." Journal of Comparative Social Work 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2014): 148–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.31265/jcsw.v9i2.115.

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As definitions of “family” have evolved in the US over the past several decades, so too has child welfare agencies’ need to provide appropriate and meaningful services. This article discusses the findings and conclusions drawn from a case study involving two different types of social work agencies: Native American child welfare and not- for-profit family services. Within this discussion, the authors use their findings from case study vignette focus groups to explore how the definitions of family impact the provision of services.At each agency, participants addressed issues surrounding domestic violence, teen pregnancy, child welfare involvement and the inclusion of extended families as part of client’s support network. By focusing on the changing social concept of “family,” the study’s respondents discussed the need for direct practice using broader, more inclusive approaches to family and child welfare. Through the comparison of two agencies which serve different demographics, the article makes clear that further study is needed, and a wider scope must be considered, in order to adequately serve America’s expanding population in need of family services, direct practice and extended support.

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Segal, Uma A. "The relevance of marketing for child welfare agencies." Children and Youth Services Review 15, no. 5 (January 1993): 421–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0190-7409(93)90013-y.

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Sage, Todd Edward, and Melanie Sage. "Social Media Use in Child Welfare Practice." Advances in Social Work 17, no. 1 (April 25, 2016): 93–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/20880.

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The scholarly child welfare literature offers little information about the use of social media by child welfare workers. We conducted a study of 171 child welfare workers across several states using an online survey. The resulting data offer insights from workers about current practices related to social media use in a child welfare work setting. Most respondents see social media as an acceptable tool for conducting child welfare assessments. Respondents describe strains and benefits of social media use. It is recommended that agencies provide guidance on ethical decision-making for using social media as a work-related tool. Agencies should also provide policy clearly defining social media use and misuse.

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Cole, Elizabeth S. "Becoming Family Centered: Child Welfare's Challenge." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 76, no. 3 (March 1995): 163–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104438949507600304.

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The author discusses current challenges to increasing family-centered practice within child welfare agencies. The article focuses on two issues: (1) child welfare's collaboration with early-intervention and family-support services and (2) maintaining family-preservation services despite growing criticism of such services.

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Bednar, Susan G. "Elements of Satisfying Organizational Climates in Child Welfare Agencies." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 84, no. 1 (January 2003): 7–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.70.

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The critical role played by child welfare workers in the protection of abused and neglected children is seriously undermined by rapid staff turnover and the impaired performance associated with burnout and job dissatisfaction. This review examines research on job satisfaction in child welfare systems and on factors that influence a worker's decision to leave a job or stay, as well as organizational climate factors which have been linked to job satisfaction, consumer satisfaction, and client outcomes. While ample information is available about what is needed to create satisfying work environments for child welfare workers, this knowledge has not been systematically applied. Incorporating existing knowledge into child welfare practice should be a priority, as should research that focuses on organizational variables that may impact service quality and outcomes as well as employee satisfaction. Questions remain about the long-term impact of increased job satisfaction and improved organizational climate on worker retention and client outcomes.

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Maas, Henry. "Social Development, its Contexts, and Child Welfare." Children Australia 11, no. 2-3 (1987): 8–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000016738.

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Child welfare agencies and workers are often so besieged by pressures from all sides that they may lose sight of their purposes. They may mistake their current programs for their reasons for being. Daily activities in agencies are frequently determined by crises in the lives of societally unintegrated children and youth. They may be called neglected and/or abused, disturbed and/or deliquent. What they tend to have in common, whatever label they are given, is that they are somehow peripheral to their society, undervalued by it, and often victimized. Is it any wonder that children and youth become alienated, feeling unbelonging and depressed? Or that there are high staff turnover, under-funding and organizational emergencies in agencies mandated to provide primarily remedial (after-the-pain) services? Under these circumstances, practitioners have little opportunity to review the assumptions, as well as the effects of their daily work.

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Smith, R. Dale, and Michele T. Gore. "Bringing Research to Life: Using Social Work Students in a Statewide Foster Care Census." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 11, no. 2 (March 1, 2006): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/1084-7219.11.2.78.

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A review of historical developments in child welfare and social work research reveals continuing challenges for social work education. This article describes a collaborative effort to conduct a statewide survey of children in foster care. Social work students from eight universities helped to complete a state-wide census of foster care families in collaboration with child welfare agencies and the Public Child Welfare Consortium. The article discusses the impetus and scope of the project, as well as the benefits to students, child welfare agencies, and social work education.

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MacPherson, Colleen. "Community Engagement, Child Welfare, and Domestic Violence Service Agencies." International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 1, no. 3/4 (July 30, 2010): 265–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs13/420102087.

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Although coordinated community responses to domestic violence are widely encouraged in the literature as a best practice approach, collaboration between multiple domestic violence response service agencies and government systems is often not achieved. Because of the fragmentation of domestic violence services, this literature review examines community engagement in general and the need for coordination between child welfare agencies and women serving anti-violence services in particular. The skills and strategies necessary for community engagement are explored along with the historical relationship between the two service streams. Also included is a review of the barriers to collaboration between child welfare and women serving agencies along with recommendations to overcome these hurdles. By way of summation, a discussion is provided on how information learned through this review process may be applied to practice for Child and Youth Care Practitioners and others who take up the difficult task of responding to the complex needs of families experiencing domestic violence.

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Juby, Cindy, and Maria Scannapieco. "Characteristics of Workload Management in Pulic Child Welfare Agencies." Administration in Social Work 31, no. 3 (August 7, 2007): 95–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j147v31n03_06.

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Wells, Rebecca, Mónica Pérez Jolles, Emmeline Chuang, Bowen McBeath, and Crystal Collins-Camargo. "Trends in local public child welfare agencies 1999–2009." Children and Youth Services Review 38 (March 2014): 93–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.01.015.

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Hernandez-Mekonnen, Robin, and Dawn Konrady. "Title IV-E Child Welfare Training and University Partnerships: Transforming State Child Protection Services into a Trauma-Informed System." Advances in Social Work 18, no. 1 (September 24, 2017): 235–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/21323.

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Children who are involved in the child welfare system have experienced trauma, and research indicates that parents of those children also frequently grapple with their own unresolved trauma. In addition, child welfare workers face high rates of secondary traumatic stress. Federal legislation from 2011 requires states to conduct universal trauma screening on children in foster care. The Administration on Children and Families (ACF) urges state Child Protection agencies (CPS) to become trauma-informed, however, many states still struggle to integrate a trauma focused practice model. This article describes the outcomes of a national, empirically driven, Core Concepts in Child Trauma for Child Welfare curriculum utilized in a Title IV-E university partnership program to teach graduate level child welfare agency supervisors. Findings suggest that the graduate trauma course demonstrates statistically significant gains in confidence, and also has a profound impact on the agency’s transformation into a trauma-informed system

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O’Brien, Jon. "Resignation, radicalism or realism?: What role for non-government agencies in the changing context of child and family welfare?" Children Australia 25, no. 1 (2000): 4–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200009548.

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Non-government welfare agencies have a history of both service provision and advocating for social justice and welfare reform. Current economic and social changes have had an impact on our understanding of the role of welfare and the state. There has been a significant reconfiguration of community services, with important implications for the present and future role of welfare agencies.This article seeks to identify questions confronting agencies that seek to maintain a commitment to social action by examining an 18-month child abuse prevention campaign conducted by a coalition of agencies in NSW. Significant insights and challenges that emerged from the campaign are identified. Questions about the role of non-government agencies are revisited and the value of welfare agencies’ contribution to social equity reasserted.

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Zlotnik, Joan Levy, and Llewellyn J. Cornelius. "Preparing Social Work Students for Child Welfare Careers: The Use of Title IV-E Training Funds in Social Work Education." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 5, no. 2 (March 1, 2000): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/1084-7219.5.2.1.

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Child welfare agencies are seeking ways to improve the competency of their staff. As a result of partnership efforts between social work education programs and public child welfare agencies, an increasing number of BSW and MSW programs have accessed Title IV-E training funds to support the social work education of current and potential child welfare workers. This article reports on a survey of the use of this funding stream in social work education. It identifies (1) trends in its use, (2) characteristics of programs that do and do not receive funding, and (3) the impact of this funding source on social work education. The findings also reflect on the impact of use of Title IV-E funds on child welfare training in the United States.

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Mitchell, Brian. "Preventative Child Welfare Services in Victoria." Children Australia 13, no. 1 (1988): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0312897000001752.

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The idea of prevention in child welfare is not new. The prevention of substitute placement of children whether on a temporary or long-term basis has been a fundamental principle of child welfare we have held to for many years in Victoria.However, it is only in the last decade that this principle is actually being carried out in practice by a number of voluntary agencies. For many children placement is still commonly used as a solution it is easier to place a child than to promote change within many multi-deficit families.

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Stein, Theodore J. "The Vulnerability of Child Welfare Agencies to Class-Action Suits." Social Service Review 61, no. 4 (December 1987): 636–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/644483.

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Phillips, Susan D., Barbara J. Burns, H. Ryan Wagner, and Richard P. Barth. "Parental Arrest and Children Involved With Child Welfare Services Agencies." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 74, no. 2 (April 2004): 174–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.74.2.174.

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Collins, Mary Elizabeth. "Evaluating child welfare training in public agencies: Status and prospects." Evaluation and Program Planning 31, no. 3 (August 2008): 241–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2008.04.010.

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Tonmyr, L., SM Jack, S. Brooks, G. Williams, A. Campeau, and P. Dudding. "Utilization of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect by child welfare agencies in Ontario." Chronic Diseases and Injuries in Canada 33, no. 1 (December 2012): 29–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.33.1.04.

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Introduction The purpose of this study was to analyze how child maltreatment surveillance data from the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) is used by senior child welfare decision makers. Methods This triangulation mixed-methods study included quantitative and qualitative methods to facilitate an in-depth exploration from multiple perspectives. We interviewed Ontario child welfare decision makers to measure utilization of the CIS in policy development. Results The majority of respondents were aware of the CIS data. Decision makers reported using these data to determine resource allocation, understand reported maltreatment trends and validate findings at their own agencies. Urban agencies used the data more than did rural agencies. Conclusion This study is the first to triangulate data to understand and improve utilization of child maltreatment surveillance data. The study participants indicated considerable appreciation of the data and also provided ideas for improvements across the surveillance cycle.

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Pierce, Barbara, and Taekyung Park. "Competency Curriculum Intervention: Student Task Self-Efficacy and Attitudes in Child Welfare." Advances in Social Work 18, no. 2 (December 17, 2017): 490–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/21394.

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Three cohorts of BSW and MSW Title IV-E and NCWWI student scholars (n= 125) were educated using a university-agency developed competency-based curriculum and field placement. In order to determine if this curriculum and field placement would improve perceived competence and attitudes toward child welfare work, pre and post-field placement surveys were used. Statistically significant change was demonstrated for most competencies. Attitudes toward child welfare work demonstrated no change from the favorable attitudes students had before entering their field placements. There were no statistically significant differences between BSW and MSW students. Students who had higher perceived competence endorsed motivation and intent to remain in child welfare. Based on the findings, we recommend key strategies to keep up the morale of BSW and MSW graduates in child welfare agencies: transition-to-work initiatives by schools, mentoring programs by agencies, manageable caseloads, and the application of skills and knowledge learned.

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Horwitz, S. M., M. S. Hurlburt, J. D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, A. M. Heneghan, J. Zhang, J. Rolls-Reutz, E. Fisher, J. Landsverk, and R. E. K. Stein. "Mental Health Services Use by Children Investigated by Child Welfare Agencies." PEDIATRICS 130, no. 5 (October 8, 2012): 861–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2012-1330.

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Mason, Matthew, Lynn M. Castrianno, Christy Kessler, Linda Holmstrand, Jonathan Huefner, Vince Payne, Peter J. Pecora, Sheila Schmaltz, and Misty Stenslie. "A Comparison of Foster Care Outcomes Across Four Child Welfare Agencies." Journal of Family Social Work 7, no. 2 (November 10, 2003): 55–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/j039v07n02_05.

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Robichau, Robbie Waters, and Kandyce Fernandez. "Intersectoral Experiences: Nonprofit Managers and Sector Influences in Child Welfare Agencies." Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance 41, no. 1 (May 31, 2016): 76–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2016.1193586.

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Barton, William H., Gail Folaron, Monique Busch, and Carol Hostetter. "Satisfaction of contract provider agencies with a State's Child Welfare Agency." Children and Youth Services Review 28, no. 3 (March 2006): 275–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2005.03.008.

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Wells, Rebecca. "Managing child welfare agencies: What do we know about what works?" Children and Youth Services Review 28, no. 10 (October 2006): 1181–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2005.11.009.

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Kobulsky, Julia M., Jamie Cage, and Gabriella Celeste. "The perceived effects of volunteer use by public child welfare agencies." Children and Youth Services Review 89 (June 2018): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.04.015.

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Heneghan, Amy, Ruth E. K. Stein, Michael S. Hurlburt, Jinjin Zhang, Jennifer Rolls-Reutz, Emily Fisher, John Landsverk, and Sarah McCue Horwitz. "Mental Health Problems in Teens Investigated by U.S. Child Welfare Agencies." Journal of Adolescent Health 52, no. 5 (May 2013): 634–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.10.269.

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Heneghan, Amy, Ruth E. K. Stein, Michael S. Hurlburt, Jinjin Zhang, Jennifer Rolls-Reutz, Bonnie D. Kerker, John Landsverk, and Sarah McCue Horwitz. "Health-Risk Behaviors in Teens Investigated by U.S. Child Welfare Agencies." Journal of Adolescent Health 56, no. 5 (May 2015): 508–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2015.01.007.

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Courtney, Mark E. "Beyond safety and permanency: Making well-being a focus of policy and practice for children in state care." Children Australia 34, no. 1 (2009): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200000493.

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This essay explores some of the reasons why child welfare policy has too often avoided an explicit focus on child well-being. The historical origins of child welfare services contribute to avoidance of child well-being in policy discourse. In addition, program administrators are reluctant to explicitly take responsibility for the well-being of children they serve because of concerns about added liability, the belief that public institutions other than the child welfare system should be held responsible, and the fear that child welfare services will be unable to ameliorate the damage that children often suffer before entering care. Three empirical studies of child welfare populations in the US are used to examine the inextricable links between child safety, permanency and well-being. It is argued that broadening child welfare policy to embrace child well-being as a policy goal will only enhance the likelihood that child welfare agencies will improve child safety and permanency outcomes.

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Simmons, Michaela Christy. "Becoming Wards of the State: Race, Crime, and Childhood in the Struggle for Foster Care Integration, 1920s to 1960s." American Sociological Review 85, no. 2 (March 27, 2020): 199–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0003122420911062.

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Using archival materials from the Domestic Relations Court of New York City, this article traces the conflict between private institutions and the state over responsibility for neglected African American children in the early twentieth century. After a long history of exclusion by private child welfare, the court assumed public responsibility for the protection of children of all races. Yet, in an arrangement of delegated governance, judges found themselves unable to place non-white children because of the enduring exclusionary policies of private agencies. When the situation became critical, the City sought to wrest control from private agencies by developing a supplemental public foster care system. This compromise over responsibility racialized the developing public foster care system of New York City, and it transformed frameworks of child protection as a social problem. The findings highlight the political salience surrounding issues of racial access in the delegated welfare state. Tracing how the conflict over access unfolded in New York City child protection provides an empirical case for understanding how the delegation of social welfare to private agencies can actually weaken racial integration efforts, generate distinct modes of social welfare inclusion, and racialize perceptions of social problems.

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Murphy, Haley, and Robbie Waters Robichau. "Governmental Influences on Organizational Capacity: The Case of Child Welfare Nonprofits." Nonprofit Policy Forum 7, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 339–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/npf-2015-0040.

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AbstractWhen government agencies interact with nonprofit organizations they have various effects on the organization’s capacity. But, it is unclear how a particular agency’s environment-both internal (i. e. organizational culture) and external (i. e. resource dependency)-determines whether government’s influence on that agency will be positive or negative. Using data from a survey of child welfare nonprofits, this paper examines to what extent a nonprofit’s relationship with government improves or hinders their capacity. Evidence suggests that the nonprofit’s organizational culture, dependency on government funds, and relational contracting has a significant impact on the perception that governmental interaction has made capacity better or worse. Contrary to expectations, there are improvements in management activities as government funding and contracts increases.

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McPhatter, Anna, and Traci Ganaway. "Beyond the Rhetoric." Journal of Child and Youth Care Work 24 (November 17, 2020): 107–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jcycw.2012.51.

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Culturally effective practice remains elusive within child welfare agencies. Recognizing the hierarchical nature of becoming culturally competent, this article presents specific strategies that enhance cultural effectiveness at the individual, interprofessional, middle management, and upper management levels. The approaches evolve from a five-stage model of change: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. Becoming culturally competent requires a clear assessment of where the individual practitioner and agency are on the change continuum. The article also explores barriers to culturally competent practice, with a focus on multilevel strategies that work within child welfare agencies.

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Gore, Michele T., and Chris Groeber. "Improving Outcomes for Students, Social Work Education, and Agencies in Public Child Welfare." Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work 8, no. 1 (September 1, 2002): 17–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18084/1084-7219.8.1.17.

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This article describes three programs that Kentucky is using to link the classroom and the field practice of students and social workers. The state has developed a consortium of educational partnerships with nine state universities. This consortium has allowed for creative student educational experiences and child welfare placements at the baccalaureate level, master's-level education with a focus on agency needs and capacities, and a post-employment program that allows for evaluation of new worker abilities and knowledge base. Kentucky continues to improve both social work education and public child welfare practice with its innovative approaches to student and social worker development.

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Cradock, Gerald. "The politics of kith and kin: Observations on the British Columbia government’s reaction to the death of Sherry Charlie." First Peoples Child & Family Review 3, no. 1 (May 21, 2020): 15–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1069524ar.

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This paper examines the events that occurred in British Columbia following the death of a First Nations child placed in a Kith and Kin arrangement. The paper, drawing extensively from internal government reports that were only just recently released to public, provides an “insider’s” view of government sponsored child welfare polices and practices in relation to First Nations child welfare agencies and the communities they serve.

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Howe, David. "Child Abuse and the Bureaucratisation of Social Work." Sociological Review 40, no. 3 (August 1992): 491–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.1992.tb00399.x.

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Child abuse became a public issue in the early 1970s. The alleged failure of social workers and welfare agencies to prevent children being killed by their parents and caretakers led to changes in the practice and organisation in child abuse work. The way public inquiries and government departments framed the problem of child abuse produced solutions which were essentially legalistic and bureaucratic. No longer was the aim to rehabilitate poorly functioning families, but to protect children from dangerous parents. But in order to achieve this aim, it was first necessary to identify the factors that would allow child protection agencies to recognise which families were dangerous and which were not. Once these factors were identified, it was possible to develop administrative systems that would facilitate the collection and analysis of information obtained during the investigation of suspected families. These systems allowed welfare agencies to identify ‘high risk’ cases. During the translation of the problem of child abuse into a set of judicial and bureaucratic procedures, therapeutically orientated professional practices found themselves out-manoeuvered. The translation witnessed the production of social workers as ‘passive agents’, a new cognitive perspective on the problem of child abuse, and a contribution to the bureaucratisation of child care practice.

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Cook, Kay, Lisa Given, Georgia Keam, and Lisa Young. "Technological opportunities for procedural justice in welfare administration: A review of available apps." Critical Social Policy 40, no. 4 (July 9, 2019): 627–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018319860498.

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Welfare agencies are increasingly turning to technology to facilitate information-sharing and communication with users. However, while the administrative, governmental and material effects of technological advances have been examined, research has yet to explore how welfare users could make use of technology for their benefit. In this article, we examine the extent to which available technologies allow Australian separated mothers to assemble and provide data to government agencies in order to pursue procedural, and therefore substantive, justice in child support and welfare contexts. We find that no currently available apps provide separated mothers with technological affordances suited to this purpose. As a result, we find that existing child support and welfare data practices reinforce the social hierarchies that exist post-separation, whereby low-income single mothers are financially and socially disadvantaged, while welfare administrators and non-compliant ex-partners accrue savings and discretionary benefits as a result of existing bureaucratic data gaps and omissions.

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MacDonald, Nancy, and Judy MacDonald. "Reﬂections of a Mi’kmaq social worker on a quarter of a century work in First Nations child welfare." First Peoples Child & Family Review 3, no. 1 (May 21, 2020): 34–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1069525ar.

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First Nations people would argue that the ‘Sixties Scoop’ of removing their children from their homes and culture never ended. First Nations children entering ‘care’ of child welfare agencies has increased signiﬁcantly since the 1960s and 1970s. Storying the journey of a Mi’kmaq social worker working with a First Nations child, aspects of the child welfare system will be theoretically and historically located and critiqued from a social justice perspective. Schools of Social Work will be challenged to provide an education inclusive of decolonization, understanding the historical limitations of the child welfare system and its impact upon First Nations peoples.

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Tonmyr, Lil, Susan Jack, Sandy Brooks, Betty Kennedy, and Peter Dudding. "Utilization of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect in First Nations Child Welfare Agencies in Ontario." First Peoples Child & Family Review 4, no. 1 (May 14, 2020): 38–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1069348ar.

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The goals of this study are: to examine the awareness and utilization of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS) and the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS) by First Nations child welfare decision-makers in the child welfare policy development process in the Province of Ontario and; to identify ways of making the CIS/OIS more useful to First Nations decision makers. No previous study has focused on assessing the inﬂuence and impact that the CIS/OIS data have on policy development with this speciﬁc population.

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Zachik, Albert A., Michael W. Naylor, and Robert L. Klaehn. "Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Leadership in Public Mental Health, Child Welfare, and Developmental Disabilities Agencies." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 19, no. 1 (January 2010): 47–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2009.08.007.

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Nybell, L. M., and S. S. Gray. "Race, Place, Space: Meanings of Cultural Competence in Three Child Welfare Agencies." Social Work 49, no. 1 (January 1, 2004): 17–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/49.1.17.

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D'Andrade, Amy, Laura Frame, and Jill Duerr Berrick. "Concurrent planning in public child welfare agencies: Oxymoron or work in progress?" Children and Youth Services Review 28, no. 1 (January 2006): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2005.02.008.

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Raghavan, Ramesh, Benjamin T. Allaire, Derek S. Brown, and Raven E. Ross. "Medicaid Disenrollment Patterns Among Children Coming into Contact with Child Welfare Agencies." Maternal and Child Health Journal 20, no. 6 (March 26, 2016): 1280–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-016-1929-9.

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Horwitz, Sarah McCue, Michael S. Hurlburt, Jeremy D. Goldhaber-Fiebert, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Jennifer Rolls-Reutz, JinJin Zhang, Emily Fisher, and John Landsverk. "Exploration and adoption of evidence-based practice by US child welfare agencies." Children and Youth Services Review 39 (April 2014): 147–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.10.004.

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McCue Horwitz, Sarah, Michael S. Hurlburt, Amy Heneghan, Jinjin Zhang, Jennifer Rolls-Reutz, Emily Fisher, John Landsverk, and Ruth E. K. Stein. "Mental Health Problems in Young Children Investigated by U.S. Child Welfare Agencies." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 51, no. 6 (June 2012): 572–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2012.03.006.

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Stott, Tonia C., Ann MacEachron, and Nora Gustavsson. "Social Media and Child Welfare: Policy, Training, and the Risks and Benefits From the Administrator’s Perspective." Advances in Social Work 17, no. 2 (January 30, 2017): 221–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/21263.

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The field of public child welfare faces special challenges as it interweaves the use of social media into practice. Social media can assist agencies in meeting demands of practice such as communication, preservation of important family connections, identification of kin, and service coordination with caretakers and community partners. It also presents risks with respect to privacy, confidentiality, and safety. To look at the role of social media in child welfare practice, we began by examining the literature on social media use and how agencies are responding to the risks and benefits of this technology. We then report the findings from an exploratory national survey of training administrators (n=14) that suggests states vary in both policy development and training with respect to social media in child welfare work. We further report on state training administrators’ views of the perceived risks vs. benefits of the use of social media in various case management tasks and in enhancing the well-being of youth in out-of-home care. Agencies would reduce their liability risks and at the same time benefit their staff and clients by developing policies that offer guidelines to protect agency and staff privacy and safety, as well as client privacy and safety. Agencies may also promote the well-being of youth in out-of-home care by providing adequate information to staff and care-givers regarding the safe use of social media to create and maintain appropriate connections.

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Testa, Mark F., and David Kelly. "The Evolution of Federal Child Welfare Policy through the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018: Opportunities, Barriers, and Unintended Consequences." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 692, no. 1 (November 2020): 68–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220976528.

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The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 affords child welfare agencies a new opportunity to fund evidence-supported interventions to prevent children’s removal into public foster care and ensure that youth in care receive appropriate treatment in the least restrictive (most family-like) setting. The new law has been generally heralded as a much-needed improvement over prior funding constraints, but there are concerns among a growing number of child welfare leaders, researchers, professional membership organizations, and advocacy groups that its focus on the families of children who are at immanent risk of removal because of maltreatment is too limiting and that overreliance on strict evidence standards may contribute to racial disparity. This article considers how child welfare agencies can best leverage the opportunities presented by Family First while addressing potential barriers posed by the paucity of evidence-supported prevention programs and avoiding the unintended consequences of limiting reimbursement to only selective prevention services that meet rigorous evidence standards of effectiveness.

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