Journal articles: 'Child Welfare System'

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Waldfogel, Jane. "Welfare reform and the child welfare system." Children and Youth Services Review 26, no. 10 (October 2004): 919–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.04.002.

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Mendes, Philip. "Graduating from the Child Welfare System." Journal of Social Work 5, no. 2 (August 2005): 155–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468017305054970.

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Zambrana, Ruth E., and Doris Capello. "Promoting Latino Child and Family Welfare: Strategies for Strengthening the Child Welfare System." Children and Youth Services Review 25, no. 10 (October 2003): 755–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0190-7409(03)00078-1.

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Courtney, Mark, and Ada Skyles. "Racial disproportionality in the child welfare system." Children and Youth Services Review 25, no. 5-6 (May 2003): 355–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0190-7409(03)00025-2.

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Munro, Eileen. "Confidentiality in a Preventive Child Welfare System." Ethics and Social Welfare 1, no. 1 (April 2007): 41–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17496530701237167.

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Li, Gui-Lan, and Chang-Gyeong Kim. "The Research on China's Child Welfare System." Chinese Studies 46 (December 31, 2013): 431–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.14378/kacs.2013.46.46.431.

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Siefert, Kristine, Ira M. Schwartz, and Robert M. Ortega. "Infant Mortality in Michigan's Child Welfare System." Social Work 39, no. 5 (September 1994): 574–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/39.5.574.

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Fong, Rowena, and Jodi Berger Cardoso. "Child human trafficking victims: Challenges for the child welfare system." Evaluation and Program Planning 33, no. 3 (August 2010): 311–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2009.06.018.

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Berger, Lawrence M., and Kristen S. Slack. "The Contemporary U.S. Child Welfare System(s): Overview and Key Challenges." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 692, no. 1 (November 2020): 7–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220969362.

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This volume of The ANNALS aims to increase awareness among scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners of the size, scope, and functions of child welfare services in the United States. We aim to promote a wider understanding of the broad impacts of child welfare policies and point to ways in which child welfare services can be better incorporated into cross-cutting social policy debates. The articles in this volume offer concrete recommendations for policies and practices that can reduce child maltreatment, and for systemic approaches—both within the purview of child welfare services and across the broader community and social policy landscape—that can better identify and respond to the needs of children and families in which maltreatment has already occurred or where there is a risk of abuse and neglect. This introduction sets a foundation for understanding the contents of the volume: we provide an overview of child welfare services in the United States and highlight current challenges that the U.S. child welfare systems face.

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Thompson, Heather M., Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, and Morgan E. Cooley. "Through their lens: Case managers’ experiences of the child welfare system." Qualitative Social Work 16, no. 3 (December 29, 2015): 411–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325015619667.

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Case managers play a significant role in the child welfare system. Although previous studies have highlighted the multiple demands and requirements for case managers, few studies have utilized the perspective of case managers to highlight practices and areas of need within the child welfare system. The purpose of this qualitative study was to expand the understanding of issues related to child welfare by exploring the perspectives of current and former child welfare case managers. Thirty-one case managers provided their perspectives on their experiences within the child welfare system, perspectives and views of the system, relationships with other parts and persons within the system, and how they developed their knowledge of the intricate child welfare system. Themes related to the roles and responsibilities of case managers, support and collaboration, and learning and growing within the system emerged. Practice, research, and policy implications are discussed.

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Dettlaff, Alan J., and Reiko Boyd. "Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System: Why Do They Exist, and What Can Be Done to Address Them?" ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 692, no. 1 (November 2020): 253–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716220980329.

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Children of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system, and Black children have been most significantly impacted by this racial disproportionality. Racial disproportionality in child welfare exists because of influences that are both external to child welfare systems and part of the child welfare system. We summarize the causes of racial disproportionality, arguing that internal and external causes of disproportional involvement originate from a common underlying factor: structural and institutional racism that is both within child welfare systems and part of society at large. Further, we review options for addressing racial disproportionality, arguing that it needs to be rectified because of the harm it causes Black children and families and that forcible separation of children from their parents can no longer be viewed as an acceptable form of intervention for families in need.

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Akintayo, Thomas. "Options for Africa’s Child Welfare Systems from Nigeria’s Unsustainable Multicultural Models." Sustainability 13, no. 3 (January 21, 2021): 1118. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13031118.

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The sustainability of Africa’s existing child welfare systems remains uncertain, potentially owing to the maltreatment of children amid the competing worldviews of the continent’s indigenous and non-indigenous practices and international childcare models. This article focuses on Nigeria’s unsustainable multicultural child welfare system in order to highlight the inherent challenges of child welfare systems in Africa and proffer remedies. Seven discernible trends derived from available indigenous sources of information and scholarly literature on Nigeria are used as mind maps to describe and discuss Nigeria’s multicultural characteristics and childcare practices. From the discussion, the country’s child welfare challenges manifest in the following forms: ethnocultural, or more specifically, ethnoreligious diversity; the infiltration of Nigeria by non-native worldviews; colonial legacies; vacillating post-colonial social policies; conceptual ambiguities in non-indigenous welfare terminologies; and persistent unnecessary professional rivalries, which are also present in other African countries. As remedies, three transformative response options for the sustainability of the Nigerian child welfare system and those of other African countries are recommended: embracing cultural relativity regarding child maltreatment, leveraging the transformative and expanded mandates of the social work profession for the development of effective and sustainable child welfare systems, and using research and systems thinking as a driver for transforming professional rivalries into multidisciplinary approaches.

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Latzman, Natasha E., Colby Lokey, Catherine A. Lesesne, Joanne Klevens, Karen Cheung, Susanne Condron, and Lucas Godoy Garraza. "An evaluation of welfare and child welfare system integration on rates of child maltreatment in Colorado." Children and Youth Services Review 96 (January 2019): 386–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.12.009.

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Linares, L. Oriana. "Substance-abusing mothers in the child welfare system." Women's Health Issues 8, no. 4 (July 1998): 254–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1049-3867(98)00009-7.

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Rosenfeld, Alvin, Saul Wasserman, and Daniel J. Pilowsky. "Psychiatry and Children in the Child Welfare System." Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America 7, no. 3 (July 1998): 515–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1056-4993(18)30227-x.

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Davidson, Ryan D., Meredith W. Morrissey, and Connie J. Beck. "The Hispanic Experience of the Child Welfare System." Family Court Review 57, no. 2 (April 2019): 201–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12404.

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Wyman, Robert, and Kelly Warner-King. "Building a Resilience-Oriented Child Welfare Court System." Juvenile and Family Court Journal 68, no. 1 (March 2017): 97–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfcj.12088.

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Goldberg, S. "Envisioning a Thoughtful and Caring Child Welfare System." Tikkun 28, no. 2 (March 21, 2013): 11–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/088799822081545.

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Ezell, Mark, Robin Spath, Anat Zeira, Cinzia Canali, Elizabeth Fernandez, June Thoburn, and Tiziano Vecchiato. "An international classification system for child welfare programs." Children and Youth Services Review 33, no. 10 (October 2011): 1847–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.05.003.

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Simmel, Cassandra, Cory Morton, and Guy Cucinotta. "Understanding extended involvement with the child welfare system." Children and Youth Services Review 34, no. 9 (September 2012): 1974–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.06.007.

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Font, Sarah. "Making Meaning of Cumulative Child Welfare System Involvement." American Journal of Public Health 111, no. 6 (June 2021): 993–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/ajph.2021.306268.

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Larsson, Karl Kristian, and Marit Haldar. "Can Computers Automate Welfare?" Journal of Extreme Anthropology 5, no. 1 (June 20, 2021): 56–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.8231.

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Information-driven automated systems that deliver services proactively to citizens in need are heralded as the next level of digital government. There is, however, concern that such systems make welfare services less accessible to some citizens. This study uses the case of Norway’s child benefit system to discuss the general obstacles to having welfare policies implemented by proactive digital systems. Norway’s automated child benefit system uses data from Norway’s national resident register to award this benefit to eligible parents whom the system identifies. As such, it is representative of many government systems that use registry data to perform tasks previously done by caseworkers. While the eligibility rules for child benefits are simple, and the register has sufficient data to automate most cases, many parents are not awarded the benefit automatically. This article argues that when developing automated digital services, public administrators are faced with a trilemma. Ideally, proactive automation should be (1) precise in its delivery, (2) inclusive of all citizens, and (3) still support welfare-oriented policies that are independent of the requirements of the digital system. However, limitations with each requirement prevent all three from being realized at the same time. Only two can be simultaneously realized: a public administrator must decide which of them to forego. Consequently, automated services cannot meet all the expectations of policymakers regarding the benefits of digital government. Instead, governments need to find ways of utilizing the benefits of public digitalisation without infringing on citizens’ right to be treated equally and fairly by the government.

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Johnston, Patricia. "Stuck in the Ways of the South: How Meritocracy, Bureaucracy, and a One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Child Welfare fails Nunavut’s Children." First Peoples Child & Family Review 6, no. 1 (May 4, 2020): 66–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1068897ar.

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Based on qualitative research that explored the experiences of social workers in Nunavut’s child welfare system, this paper examines the current approach to child welfare in light of a critical report issued by Canada’s Auditor General in March 2011. Through a discussion of meritocracy, this study highlights the problematic approach to child welfare used by the Government of Nunavut, particularly in their reliance on Qallunaat or nonInuit social workers. The territory’s current child welfare system, modeled on child welfare systems operating throughout southern Canada, does little to change the status quo and instead serves to maintain the colonial power structure in place for the last 50 years. This study determined that a unique and culturally relevant approach to child welfare is needed in Nunavut and Inuit traditional knowledge is essential is the move towards this important goal2.

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Naujanienė, Rasa, Jonas Ruškus, Merja Laitinen, Roberta Motiečienė, and Julija Eidukevičiūtė. "Considering Family and Child Welfare in Lithuania in Terms of Social Sustainability Pursuant to Observations of Everyday Professional Practice." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 5, 2021): 8751. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13168751.

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This article investigates the family and child welfare system in Lithuania in terms of social sustainability, with an emphasis on children’s rights. The conceptual framework of Gilbert et al. (2011a) on child welfare was used as the substance of the research, identifying the problem frame, aim and mode of intervention, and parent–state relationship as the main dimensions for analyzing configurations of the child welfare systems. The analysis in this article focuses on how the family and child welfare system is observed in everyday professional practice in Lithuania by linking it with the social sustainability concept. The quantitative research sample comprised 501 respondents from Lithuania, representing different professionals of the family and child welfare system. An online questionnaire was distributed across regional municipal social services departments and to the national service of the State Child Rights Protection and Adoption Service. Explorative factor analysis and multidimensional scaling were used for data analysis. The research demonstrated that family and child welfare dimensions are meaningfully related to the social sustainability concept through the rights of a child such as the child’s best interests, accessibility to services, the right to be heard, protection against violence, child identity, development assurance, and so forth. The research indicates the need for awareness raising, including education and training for professional actors regarding child and family welfare, as an integral part of the concept of social sustainability.

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Spielfogel, Jill E., Sonya J. Leathers, and Errick Christian. "Agency Culture and Climate in Child Welfare: Do Perceptions Vary by Exposure to the Child Welfare System?" Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance 40, no. 4 (March 2016): 382–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2016.1156041.

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Burson, Ike. "Institutionalizing the “Child Welfare” state: A study of the development of Alabama's child welfare system, 1887–1931." Children and Youth Services Review 29, no. 1 (January 2007): 77–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2006.08.001.

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McDonald, Chad, Kristine A. Campbell, Cole Benson, Matthew J. Davis, and Caren J. Frost. "Workforce Development and Multiagency Collaborations: A Presentation of Two Case Studies in Child Welfare." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 13, 2021): 10190. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810190.

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Background: Two disciplines that work in the child welfare arena, social welfare and healthcare, are crucial for addressing families’ and children’s needs in social, emotional, and physical healthcare situations. How child welfare workers are trained and how healthcare teams collaborate with other stakeholders in the child welfare system is crucial in meeting and sustaining the needs of families and children. Methods: We demonstrate two case examples, one focusing on enhanced learning tools through virtual reality (VR) and the other on strengthening collaborations between healthcare teams and the child welfare system. Results: For the VR training tool, 79% of participants indicated they would recommend the VR learning tool as effective in developing skills in the child welfare workforce. In response to the learning collaborative project, child welfare participants reported positive impressions regarding collaborative practices while identifying system-level barriers to implementation. Conclusion: Findings from these two case studies provide insights from which to consider system development for designing and implementing sustainable improvements in child welfare approaches to families and children referred for suspected maltreatment.

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Devaney, Carmel, and Paul Byrne. "The Value of Family Welfare Conferencing within the Child Protection and Welfare System." Child Care in Practice 21, no. 4 (April 20, 2015): 340–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13575279.2015.1027173.

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Eidukevičiūtė, Julija, Roberta Motiečienė, and Rasa Naujanienė. "THE VOICE OF THE CHILD: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM IN LITHUANIAN FAMILY SOCIAL WORK." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 6 (May 28, 2021): 45–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2021vol6.6243.

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This paper explains the current practices of the child welfare system in the context of Lithuania. In Europe, research on child welfare has a long history; however, the child welfare situation in Lithuania has not been systematically studied, nor has it been provided with the research-based knowledge necessary for the development of the system. Based on qualitative research results, the paper sheds light on how the voice of the child is heard in Lithuanian child and family social work practice. The research participants in the present study were children and family social workers. The research results indicate that adult-centered family social work practices are dominant and the voice of the child is misleading in the intervention process.

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Ordolis, Emilia. "A Story of their own: Adolescent Pregnancy and Child Welfare in Aboriginal Communities." First Peoples Child & Family Review 3, no. 4 (May 15, 2020): 30–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1069372ar.

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The phenomenon of adolescent pregnancy and its relationship to child welfare in Aboriginal communities provides a useful lens through which to understand fundamental and structural problems with the current child welfare system in Canada. The following paper will examine the relationship between adolescent pregnancy and child welfare, investigate concerns with the current child welfare system, and look to the Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framework for conceptualizing alternative approaches.

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Davies, Christine. "Native Children and the Child Welfare System in Canada." Alberta Law Review 30, no. 4 (April 1, 1992): 1200. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr1224.

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This article is comprised of a speech given by Professor Davies at the World Conference of the International Society on Family Law, held in 1991 in Yugoslavia. The professor leads into her discussion by reviewing the dismal statistics that face native people in Canada. The author suggests that the government's past approach, namely that of assimilation, combined with funding squabbles between the federal and provincial governments have been largely responsible for Canada's native child welfare problems. More recently, a new attitude of cooperation has emerged between the government and native leaders. The result has been increased autonomy for native people in the area of child welfare and a greater sensitivity of the government to native concerns and cultural differences. While the author contends these changes are positive, she stresses that the autonomy of the native community must not infringe on the best interests of the child.

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Orsi, Rebecca, Chris Lee, Marc Winokur, and Amanda Pearson. "Who’s Been Served and How?" Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 16, no. 1 (July 18, 2017): 3–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1541204017721614.

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Child welfare systems were created to protect maltreated children. However, adolescents today can be involved with child welfare for reasons other than maltreatment, including behavior issues. Such youth are also commonly involved in the youth corrections system. This study examines youth characteristics and risk factors which predict attaining permanency at case closure for youth involved in child welfare primarily for behavioral reasons. The sample consists of 5,691 youth aged 10–17 served in Colorado between 2007 and 2013. A multinomial logit model identified predictors of nonpermanent outcomes and of placement with return home, compared to remaining home throughout case involvement. Results show that the following characteristics and risks have a positive relationship with nonpermanent outcomes: longer case duration, prior child welfare placement, felony involvement, crimes against persons or property, truancy, running away, and gang membership. Services provided by the child welfare system are negatively related to nonpermanent outcomes.

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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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Pierce, Robert L., and Lois H. Pierce. "Moving toward cultural competence in the child welfare system." Children and Youth Services Review 18, no. 8 (January 1996): 713–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0190-7409(96)00032-1.

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Krinsky, Miriam Aroni. "A CASE FOR REFORM OF THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM." Family Court Review 45, no. 4 (October 2007): 541–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2007.00169.x.

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D'Auria, Stephanie. "Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 36, no. 6 (November 2007): 536–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009430610703600610.

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Pelton, Leroy H. "Beyond Permanency Planning: Restructuring the Public Child Welfare System." Social Work 36, no. 4 (July 1991): 337–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/36.4.337.

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Sinclair, Leslie. "MH Care Scarce for Kids in Child-Welfare System." Psychiatric News 47, no. 15 (August 3, 2012): 8b—29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/pn.47.15.psychnews_47_15_8-b.

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PIDCOCK, FRANK S. "Child Welfare: The Phantom of the Health Care System." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 145, no. 8 (August 1, 1991): 843. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1991.02160080017001.

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Howard, M. O. "Substance Misuse and the Child Welfare System: A Rejoinder." Social Work Research 36, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/swr/svs044.

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Godinet, Meripa T., Pam Arnsberger, Fenfang Li, and Theresa Kreif. "Disproportionality, Ohana Conferencing, and the Hawai'i Child Welfare System." Journal of Public Child Welfare 4, no. 4 (November 30, 2010): 387–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2010.526898.

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Cohen, Burton J. "Reforming the child welfare system: Competing paradigms of change." Children and Youth Services Review 27, no. 6 (June 2005): 653–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2004.11.016.

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Epstein, Richard A., Ka Ho Brian Chor, and Zhidi Luo. "3.7 PREDICTING YOUTH RUNAWAYS IN A CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM." Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 58, no. 10 (October 2019): S197. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.08.170.

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Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew, Mary C. Ruffolo, Robert M. Ortega, and Jenell Clarke. "Behaviors of youth involved in the child welfare system." Child Abuse & Neglect 32, no. 1 (January 2008): 35–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2007.09.004.

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Harp, Kathi L. H., and Amanda M. Bunting. "The Racialized Nature of Child Welfare Policies and the Social Control of Black Bodies." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 27, no. 2 (October 23, 2019): 258–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxz039.

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Abstract Black women are disproportionately involved in the child welfare system. This state-level intervention occurs at two levels—a higher likelihood of being (i) screened for drug use during pregnancy and (ii) reported to child welfare authorities after delivery. Consequently, they face further enmeshment in state-systems, including custody loss and lower reunification odds. Using evidence from the past forty years of research and media reports, we argue that systemic forces and policies largely contribute to racial disproportionality in the child welfare system, and assert this state intervention serves as a mechanism to control black reproduction.

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Edwards, Travonne, Amina Hussain, Christa Sato, Jason King, Michael Saini, and Bryn King. "Exploring Racial Disproportionalities and Disparities for Black Families Involved with the Child Welfare System." Social Science Protocols 3 (November 22, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.7565/ssp.v3.4949.

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Background: The overrepresentation of Black families in child welfare systems across the various geographical locations (e.g. America, Canada, United Kingdom) is a growing concern. There are competing explanations for the causes of overrepresentation and recommendations for eliminating racial disproportionalities and disparities in child welfare system. This systemic scoping review will provide a succinct synthesis of the current literature on Black disproportionality and disparity in child welfare. Methods/Design: This systemic scoping review will employ Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) five stage framework. This will direct our search of the seven academic databases (EBSCO: Criminal Justice Abstracts OVID: Social Work Abstracts Pro Quest: PsychINFO, ERIC, Sociological Abstracts, International Bibliography of Social Sciences and Web of Science Core Collections). These seven databases have been chosen due to their interdisciplinary resources on the issue of overrepresentation of Black families in the child welfare sector. The thematic findings will be systemically synthesized using qualitative analysis and presented visually through a chart. Eligible articles for this scoping review include literature that speaks directly to the experiences of Black families involved with the child welfare system. The results of this scoping review will increase the understanding of how racial disproportionalities and disparities emerge, common outcomes and ways to begin tackling this phenomenon for Black families. Discussion: In order to tackle this gap in knowledge regarding the overrepresentation of Black families in the child welfare system, this comprehensive scoping review will systematically organize the literature in order to understand how this issue manifests and to fill this gap in research. This methodological approach will allow for the development of practical and intentional methods to move forward in mitigating this issue.

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Lee, Joyce Y., Terri Gilbert, Shawna J. Lee, and Karen M. Staller. "Reforming a System That Cannot Reform Itself: Child Welfare Reform by Class Action Lawsuits." Social Work 64, no. 4 (September 30, 2019): 283–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sw/swz029.

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Abstract Class action lawsuits have become an increasingly common way to facilitate institutional reform. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to social workers of child welfare reform by class action lawsuits and subsequent consent decrees. The authors provide an overview of class action lawsuits, with a focus on their role in implementing systematic change in the United States. They highlight consent decrees as a means of settling class action lawsuits. They illustrate the current state of the child welfare system and how child advocacy groups have used class action lawsuits to initiate reform. Authors provide two case examples of child welfare reform by consent decree and engage in comparative analysis to investigate similarities and differences in the two cases. Finally, they note implications for social work practice and education and provide recommendations to equip and train social workers involved in child welfare services.

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Lee, Barbara, Esme Fuller-Thomson, Barbara Fallon, Tara Black, and Nico Trocmé. "Examining Child Welfare Decisions and Services for Asian-Canadian Versus White-Canadian Children and Families in the Child Welfare System." Child Maltreatment 22, no. 2 (February 19, 2017): 132–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077559517690829.

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Using administrative child welfare data from the Ontario Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (OCANDS), this study compared the profiles of Asian-Canadian and White-Canadian children and families that experienced a case closure after an investigation instead of being transferred to ongoing child protection services (CPS). Child protection investigations involving Asian-Canadian and White-Canadian children and families that were transferred to ongoing CPS presented a different profile of case characteristics and caregiver and child clinical needs. Asian-Canadian children and families received ongoing CPS for over a month longer than White-Canadian children and families and were less likely (odds ratio [ OR] = 0.39) to be reinvestigated for any form of maltreatment-related concerns within 1 year after case closure. It appears that child protection investigations involving Asian-Canadian children and families are less likely to be closed prematurely than White-Canadian children and families, and the child protection system may be meeting the needs of Asian-Canadian communities. Alternatively, it is possible there is unaccounted biases that may be reflective of systemic problem of discriminative practices in the child protection system. Further research is needed to explore this phenomenon.

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Markiewicz, Anne. "The child welfare system in Victoria: Changing context and perspectives 1945-1995." Children Australia 21, no. 3 (1996): 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200007185.

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This paper traces the history of child welfare in Victoria, from the formation of the Children's Welfare Department to the present time. It draws principally upon the Annual Reports of the responsible state government department, to illustrate trends in out-of-home placement for children and young people admitted to care. It describes substantial shifts in direction to the institutions in the 1960s, deinstitutionalisation of the 1980s, and the re-emergence of home-based care as a favoured, economical option.The paper traces the ebbs and flows in numbers, periods of overcrowding and the current reduced number of children and young people in care. It notes events impacting on evolving child welfare history in Victoria, the child migration program, building projects, the establishment of family group homes, regionalisation, external review, the Children and Young Persons Act (1989), and mandatory reporting legislation. Themes emerging include: early child welfare as a period of rescue and reform; the monitoring of standards and re-entry of the department to residential care; the building of institutions and rising numbers in care; redevelopment and the emergence of a community focus; the expansion of child protection; and the phasing out of old models and the search for cost efficient alternatives.A challenge for the 1990s is the need for deliberate and planned monitoring and evaluation as institutional and residential care give way to home-based care, and numbers of admissions decrease. The paper aims to provide useful, historical material for readers with an interest in child welfare work which would benefit from a descriptive review of the past.

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Borjanic-Bolic, Emina. "Addressing vicarious trauma at child welfare professionals." Temida 21, no. 3 (2018): 411–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tem1803411b.

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This article will discuss vicarious traumatization among child welfare professionals. Vicarious traumatization presents secondary trauma that results from cumulating of clients? traumatic experiences and has permanent consequences. Secondary trauma among helping professionals is neglected in child welfare system, regardless their day to day work in front lines with deliberately traumatic experiences children and their families were exposed to. Vicarious traumatization is defined by comparison with other related concepts. Likewise, the article describes the signs that indicate the presence of vicarious trauma. Further, the article explains one method in coping Vicarious Trauma manifestation in interrupting phase, before bigger problems occur. Coping in this phase is possible through professional, personal and organizational level. The purpose of this article is to identify the possibilities to overcome vicarious trauma in both helping professionals in child welfare system and other professionals whose work is engaged with traumatized children or youth. If our goal is good quality service, adequate protection of child and youth and their satisfaction with that service, care about child welfare professionals is necessary to prevent vicarious trauma. Beyond professional self-care, it is important that system, organization and managers ensure supportive conditions which will contribute to professional well-being and rising resilience among them.

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