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Theory, research and practice in child welfare: The current state of
Although there is some resurgence of interest in the importance of relationship-based working in early prevention and child welfare (McGregor & Devaney, 2019; Trevithick, 2014), it could be argued that the focus on child protection continues to overrate influence in policy and social work delivery, which in turn dictates the direction of travel ...
Children and the Child Welfare System: Problems ...
Securing the welfare of children and the family is an integral part of social work. Modern society has experienced enormous changes that present both opportunities and challenges to the practice of social work to protect the welfare of children. It is thus essential that we understand the experiences of social work practitioners in different parts of the world in order to adapt practice to the ...
The Contemporary U.S. Child Welfare System(s): Overview and Key
Kristen S. Slack is professor and PhD program chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. Her research focuses on understanding the role of poverty and economic hardship in the etiology of child maltreatment, caseload dynamics of child welfare systems in relation to other public benefit systems, and ...
NASW Standards for Social Work Practice in Child Welfare
Standards. Standard 1. Ethics and Values. Social workers in child welfare shall demonstrate a commitment to the values and ethics of the social work profession and shall use NASW's Code of Ethics as a guide to ethical decision making while understanding the unique aspects of child welfare practice.
Research to Consider While Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare
The United States is poised for major child welfare reform. Nationally recognized child welfare administrator Bryan Samuels (2020) recently published a treatise entitled "The Moment is Now: Family and Child Well-Being: An Urgent Call to Action." The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Administration for Children and Families, in concert with several national foundations ...
Children and the child welfare system: Problems, interventions, and
Securing the welfare of children and the family is an integral part of social work. Modern society has experienced enormous changes that present both opportunities and challenges to the practice of social work to protect the welfare of children. It is thus essential that we understand the experiences of social work practitioners in different parts of the world in order to adapt practice to the ...
Children's Participation in Child Welfare: A Systematic Review of
Whilst research in the social work field may have been to some extent sluggish to explore children's participation, it has increased more recently in both quality and quantity with a growing number of scholars paying greater attention to this field of study. ... <participation> AND <social work> AND <child welfare> AND <children and young ...
Strengths-Based Practice in Child Welfare: A Systematic Literature
Strengths-based practice (SBP) is considered a cornerstone of social work practice (Douglas et al., 2014) and an approach to achieving best practices in child welfare (Mirick, 2013; Oliver, 2017).Based primarily on the work of Saleebey et al. (Healy, 2014), it was developed in the field of social work in the 1980s at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, specifically in the mental ...
Journal of Public Child Welfare
The legal mandate of vital public child welfare programs is safety, permanence, and child and family well-being. With this in mind, the Journal of Public Child Welfare presents quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods theory-based or applied research, cogent reviews of the literature, policy analyses, and program evaluation articles about ...
Theory, research and practice in child welfare: The current state of
Abstract. This paper aims to utilize social theory to inform relationship‐based social work practice with children, young people and families. We see 'direct relationship‐based working ...
Policy Issue: Child Welfare
April 2016. Social workers play a critical role in child welfare systems nationwide by protecting the well-being of children, youths, and supporting families in need. In fiscal year 2014, an estimated 702,000 children were found to have experienced maltreatment, with children under the age of one being the most likely to have been maltreated.
Transforming Child Welfare: Prioritizing Prevention, Racial Equity, and
Comprehensive child welfare transformation beyond the scope of Family First will require holistic efforts to disentangle the issues of poverty and maltreatment, particularly neglect, and will necessitate a reconceptualization of how the child welfare system responds to families lacking sufficient resources. 25 This is especially imperative ...
Child Welfare: History and Policy
Social work practice in the field of child welfare involves the provision of child welfare services. Child welfare services in the United States are a response to society's commitment to protecting children from maltreatment by their primary caregivers. This commitment and early social work responses emerged in the context of what has been ...
Ableism in the Child Welfare System: Findings from a Qualitative Study
Another child welfare worker noted that her colleagues' dismissive attitudes affected how they worked with disabled parents: "A lot of social workers … lose their motivation to get kids home in a timely fashion," and fail to give disabled parents "the opportunity" to reunite with their children.
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We offer resources presenting the latest research, data, and statistics on a variety of topics—including prevention, family well-being, and kin-first culture—to build the skills and knowledge of child welfare professionals seeking to strengthen families. ... Courts and child welfare agencies must work hand-in-hand to achieve positive safety ...
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Get the latest news, research, and best practices in child welfare. Explore the free subscriptions from Information Gateway and the Children's Bureau to stay current and connected to trusted resources. ... Social Work Academic Programs; Child Welfare Terms: English to Spanish; Helpful Links. Subscriptions; Major Federal Legislation Index ...
Child Welfare
Child Welfare. Nurturing families and permanent connections are critical to a child's well-being. While most parents want to do what is best for their families, they cannot always do it alone. Child welfare social workers specialize in building upon the strengths within a family and their community to help provide a safe and loving ...
Caring for Our Child Welfare Workforce: A Holistic Framework of Worker
Background. The workforce is the most valuable asset for most organizations and particularly for those in the health and human services sectors (International Labour Organization, Citation 2020).As such, research focused on workforce health and well-being has gained global traction, with clinicians and researchers highlighting the need to build worker resilience, empathy, and well-being to ...
Partners For Our Children
Partners for Our Children (P4C) works to eliminate inequities and promote inter-generational family well-being by advancing research, evaluation, and evidence-informed policy and practice. In collaboration with its partners, local communities and those with lived expertise, P4C's mission is to transform the child welfare system and create ...
Towards a Social Ecological Approach to Supporting Caseworkers in
The rich and exacting role of the social worker in family foster care. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 4, 3 (1987), 12--29. Google Scholar Cross Ref; Heather M Thompson, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, and Morgan E Cooley. 2017. Through their lens: Case managers' experiences of the child welfare system. Qualitative Social Work 16, 3 (2017 ...
Data Collection and Analysis
Data collection and analysis can yield essential information to guide child welfare decision-making and practice improvements. Data and statistics provide a foundation for agencies to respond to Federal and State reporting requirements, such as for the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, and requests from agency leadership, policymakers, and funders, which can support ...
"Families not fees": Dr. Jill Berrick's fight against foster care
Melissa Jonson-Reid, a former PhD student and now a Professor of Social Work Research at Washington University introduced me to the child welfare director in Missouri, ... and am inspired to work in social welfare reform to prevent future families from having child welfare involvement. My work with Just Advocates, and specifically Professor ...
CCTS Grant Funds Research to Enhance Understanding of and Improve Child
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 9, 2024) — Two researchers at the University of Kentucky are using their experience and expertise to conduct an innovative study aimed at improving the child welfare system and supporting families across the Commonwealth. Shelby Clark, Ph.D., assistant professor in the College of Social Work (CoSW), and Elizabeth Riley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of ...
Teaching Students to Perform Child Welfare Assessments with Adaptable
ABSTRACT. Assessing cases of child welfare requires the ability to engage with different sources of information systematically. This study examined how case-based learning (CBL) can be used to support social work students (N = 104) acquire knowledge crucial to assessing cases of child welfare and whether benefits of CBL could be maximized by structuring the learning process.
California Title IV-E Program
Supporting the Next Generation of California's Child Welfare Social WorkersCalifornia's Title IV-E Program provides professional education and monetary support to undergraduate and graduate social work students who intend to pursue or continue a career in the field of public child welfare.
Social Work Interdisciplinary Research Lab
The SWIRL is a place where student and faculty scholars from all disciplines (undergraduate through doctoral studies, as well as junior faculty members) can come together to receive mentoring from established scholars in the fields of Global Social Work, Public Health, Nursing, Medicine, Women's Studies, Psychology, and Education. As a Lab, we undertake new research projects and capacity ...
UCL-led unit shaping policy formation to improve child and family
Boosted by £5.5m. The Children and Families Policy Research Unit was one of 20 new policy research units (PRUs), four more of which are also led by UCL, to receive funding from the latest NIHR package totalling over £100m. The CPRU is now conducting research on priority policy areas for child and family health for the Department of Health and Social Care, covering inter-related child and ...
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Although there is some resurgence of interest in the importance of relationship-based working in early prevention and child welfare (McGregor & Devaney, 2019; Trevithick, 2014), it could be argued that the focus on child protection continues to overrate influence in policy and social work delivery, which in turn dictates the direction of travel ...
Securing the welfare of children and the family is an integral part of social work. Modern society has experienced enormous changes that present both opportunities and challenges to the practice of social work to protect the welfare of children. It is thus essential that we understand the experiences of social work practitioners in different parts of the world in order to adapt practice to the ...
Kristen S. Slack is professor and PhD program chair at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work. Her research focuses on understanding the role of poverty and economic hardship in the etiology of child maltreatment, caseload dynamics of child welfare systems in relation to other public benefit systems, and ...
Standards. Standard 1. Ethics and Values. Social workers in child welfare shall demonstrate a commitment to the values and ethics of the social work profession and shall use NASW's Code of Ethics as a guide to ethical decision making while understanding the unique aspects of child welfare practice.
The United States is poised for major child welfare reform. Nationally recognized child welfare administrator Bryan Samuels (2020) recently published a treatise entitled "The Moment is Now: Family and Child Well-Being: An Urgent Call to Action." The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (DHHS) Administration for Children and Families, in concert with several national foundations ...
Securing the welfare of children and the family is an integral part of social work. Modern society has experienced enormous changes that present both opportunities and challenges to the practice of social work to protect the welfare of children. It is thus essential that we understand the experiences of social work practitioners in different parts of the world in order to adapt practice to the ...
Whilst research in the social work field may have been to some extent sluggish to explore children's participation, it has increased more recently in both quality and quantity with a growing number of scholars paying greater attention to this field of study. ... <participation> AND <social work> AND <child welfare> AND <children and young ...
Strengths-based practice (SBP) is considered a cornerstone of social work practice (Douglas et al., 2014) and an approach to achieving best practices in child welfare (Mirick, 2013; Oliver, 2017).Based primarily on the work of Saleebey et al. (Healy, 2014), it was developed in the field of social work in the 1980s at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, specifically in the mental ...
The legal mandate of vital public child welfare programs is safety, permanence, and child and family well-being. With this in mind, the Journal of Public Child Welfare presents quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods theory-based or applied research, cogent reviews of the literature, policy analyses, and program evaluation articles about ...
Abstract. This paper aims to utilize social theory to inform relationship‐based social work practice with children, young people and families. We see 'direct relationship‐based working ...
April 2016. Social workers play a critical role in child welfare systems nationwide by protecting the well-being of children, youths, and supporting families in need. In fiscal year 2014, an estimated 702,000 children were found to have experienced maltreatment, with children under the age of one being the most likely to have been maltreated.
Comprehensive child welfare transformation beyond the scope of Family First will require holistic efforts to disentangle the issues of poverty and maltreatment, particularly neglect, and will necessitate a reconceptualization of how the child welfare system responds to families lacking sufficient resources. 25 This is especially imperative ...
Social work practice in the field of child welfare involves the provision of child welfare services. Child welfare services in the United States are a response to society's commitment to protecting children from maltreatment by their primary caregivers. This commitment and early social work responses emerged in the context of what has been ...
Another child welfare worker noted that her colleagues' dismissive attitudes affected how they worked with disabled parents: "A lot of social workers … lose their motivation to get kids home in a timely fashion," and fail to give disabled parents "the opportunity" to reunite with their children.
We offer resources presenting the latest research, data, and statistics on a variety of topics—including prevention, family well-being, and kin-first culture—to build the skills and knowledge of child welfare professionals seeking to strengthen families. ... Courts and child welfare agencies must work hand-in-hand to achieve positive safety ...
Get the latest news, research, and best practices in child welfare. Explore the free subscriptions from Information Gateway and the Children's Bureau to stay current and connected to trusted resources. ... Social Work Academic Programs; Child Welfare Terms: English to Spanish; Helpful Links. Subscriptions; Major Federal Legislation Index ...
Child Welfare. Nurturing families and permanent connections are critical to a child's well-being. While most parents want to do what is best for their families, they cannot always do it alone. Child welfare social workers specialize in building upon the strengths within a family and their community to help provide a safe and loving ...
Background. The workforce is the most valuable asset for most organizations and particularly for those in the health and human services sectors (International Labour Organization, Citation 2020).As such, research focused on workforce health and well-being has gained global traction, with clinicians and researchers highlighting the need to build worker resilience, empathy, and well-being to ...
Partners for Our Children (P4C) works to eliminate inequities and promote inter-generational family well-being by advancing research, evaluation, and evidence-informed policy and practice. In collaboration with its partners, local communities and those with lived expertise, P4C's mission is to transform the child welfare system and create ...
The rich and exacting role of the social worker in family foster care. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 4, 3 (1987), 12--29. Google Scholar Cross Ref; Heather M Thompson, Armeda Stevenson Wojciak, and Morgan E Cooley. 2017. Through their lens: Case managers' experiences of the child welfare system. Qualitative Social Work 16, 3 (2017 ...
Data collection and analysis can yield essential information to guide child welfare decision-making and practice improvements. Data and statistics provide a foundation for agencies to respond to Federal and State reporting requirements, such as for the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System, and requests from agency leadership, policymakers, and funders, which can support ...
Melissa Jonson-Reid, a former PhD student and now a Professor of Social Work Research at Washington University introduced me to the child welfare director in Missouri, ... and am inspired to work in social welfare reform to prevent future families from having child welfare involvement. My work with Just Advocates, and specifically Professor ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 9, 2024) — Two researchers at the University of Kentucky are using their experience and expertise to conduct an innovative study aimed at improving the child welfare system and supporting families across the Commonwealth. Shelby Clark, Ph.D., assistant professor in the College of Social Work (CoSW), and Elizabeth Riley, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the College of ...
ABSTRACT. Assessing cases of child welfare requires the ability to engage with different sources of information systematically. This study examined how case-based learning (CBL) can be used to support social work students (N = 104) acquire knowledge crucial to assessing cases of child welfare and whether benefits of CBL could be maximized by structuring the learning process.
Supporting the Next Generation of California's Child Welfare Social WorkersCalifornia's Title IV-E Program provides professional education and monetary support to undergraduate and graduate social work students who intend to pursue or continue a career in the field of public child welfare.
The SWIRL is a place where student and faculty scholars from all disciplines (undergraduate through doctoral studies, as well as junior faculty members) can come together to receive mentoring from established scholars in the fields of Global Social Work, Public Health, Nursing, Medicine, Women's Studies, Psychology, and Education. As a Lab, we undertake new research projects and capacity ...
Boosted by £5.5m. The Children and Families Policy Research Unit was one of 20 new policy research units (PRUs), four more of which are also led by UCL, to receive funding from the latest NIHR package totalling over £100m. The CPRU is now conducting research on priority policy areas for child and family health for the Department of Health and Social Care, covering inter-related child and ...