From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements

From Child Abuse to Permanency Planning: Child Welfare Services Pathways and Placements
ISBN-10
1351518771
ISBN-13
9781351518772
Category
Political Science
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2017-07-05
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Vicky Albert

Description

More than two million child abuse reports are filed annually on behalf of children in the United States. Each of the reported children becomes a concern, at least temporarily, of the professional who files the report, and each family is assessed by additional professionals. A substantial number of children in these families will subsequently enter foster care.Until now, the relationships between the performance of our child welfare system and the growth and outcomes of foster care have not been understood. In an effort to clarify them, Barth and his colleagues have synthesized the results of their longitudinal study in California of the paths taken by children after the initial abuse report: foster care, a return to their homes, or placement for adoption.

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